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r as restlessness, ennui, dissatisfaction, or the imagination of something desirable. J. Grote.

One of the German Protestants who, with Melanchthon, held some opinions and ceremonies to be indifferent or nonessential, which Luther condemned as sinful or heretical. Murdock.

Help or support; an auxiliary. Grote.

t benefice or living in the church. [Originally, the relation of a patron (advocatus) or protector of a benefice, and thus privileged to nominate or present to it.]

A shield or protective armor; -- applied in mythology to the shield of Jupiter which he gave to Minerva. Also fig.: A shield; a protection.

One of a class of organic principles (called also proteids) which form the main part of organized tissues. Brunton.

An albuminoid substance which occurs in minute grains ("protein granules") in maturing seeds and tubers; -- supposed to be a modification of protoplasm.

One of a tribe of Amphibia, which have both lungs and gills at the same time, as the proteus and siren.

Ancestral. Grote.

bead (Arch.), a bead worked on or fixed to the angle of any architectural work, esp. for protecting an angle of a wall. -- Angle brace, Angle tie (Carp.), a brace across an interior angle of a wooden frame, forming the hypothenuse and securing the two side pieces together. Knight. -- Angle iron (Mach.), a rolled bar…

Inimical to bacteria; -- applied esp. to serum for protection against bacterial diseases.

Odd; fantastic; fanciful; grotesque; ludicrous. The antic postures of a merry-andrew. Addison. The Saxons . . . worshiped many idols, barbarous in name, some monstrous, all antic for shape. Fuller.

A hypothetical earth counter to ours, or on the opposite side of the sun. Grote.

Oddly; grotesquely.

A secondary mask, or grotesque interlude, between the parts of a serious mask. [Written also anue.] Bacon.

A substance which prevents or retards putrefaction, or destroys, or protects from, putrefactive organisms; as, salt, carbolic acid, alcohol, cinchona.

re apt to have a soot or smuttiness upon their leaves and fruit. Temple. This tree, if unprotected, is apt to be stripped of the leaves by a leaf-cutting ant. Lubbock.

s between virtue and happiness; the science of virtue; -- contrasted with eudemonics. J. Grote.

composed of the best citizens. [Obs.] In the Senate Right not our quest in this, I will protest them To all the world, no aristocracy. B. Jonson.

Armor; whatever is worn or used for the protection and defense of the body, esp. the protective outfit of some animals and plants.