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Maintenance; means of living.

An instrument to ascertain the strength of alkalies, or the quantity of alkali in a mixture.

Of or pertaining to alkalimetry.

The art or process of ascertaining the strength of alkalies, or the quantity present in alkaline mixtures.

the ideas fall, or become less important and striking, at the close; -- the opposite of climax. It produces a ridiculous effect. Example: Next comes Dalhousie, the great god of war, Lieutenant-colonel to the Earl ANTICLINAL An`ti*cli"nal, a. Etym: [Pref. anti- + Gr.

Application. [Obs.] Marston

To besmear or insnare with birdlime.

To daub with slime; to soil. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

hen preserved or pickled. The juice is used as a remedy for skin diseases. [Written also blimbi and blimbing.]

A woman's ornament; habiliment. [Obs.]

it will hold small birds which may light upon it. Hence: Anything which insnares. Not birdlime or Idean pitch produce A more tenacious mass of clammy juice. Dryden.

See Bilimbi, etc.

A plant (Veronica Beccabunga), with flowers, usually blue, in axillary racemes. The American species is V. Americana. [Formerly written broklempe or broklympe.]

A disease in which there is a perpetual and insatiable appetite for food; a diseased and voracious appetite.

A genus of land snails having an elongated spiral shell, often of large size. The species are numerous ingabundant in tropical America.

With well-proportioned, unblemished limbs; as, a clean-limbed young fellow. Dickens.

A series of limestone strata found in Ohio and farther west, presenting bluffs along the rivers and valleys, formerly supposed to be of one formation, but now known to be partly Silurian and partly Devonian.

See Climacteric, n.

Relating to a climacteric; critical.

See Climacteric. Evelyn.