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) the commonness of the motion described below. Brownian movement, the peculiar, rapid, vibratory movement exhibited by the microscopic particles of substances when suspended in water or other fluids.

The celebrated war horse of Alexander the Great.

A pastil or troche, composed of various aromatic and other ingredients, highly celebrated in India as an antidote, and as a stomachic and antispasmodic.

ahincic acid is obtained; also, the root of the South American Chiococca anguifuga, a celebrated antidote for snake poison.

To rail or scold. [Obs.] Brathwait.

The second day of February, on which is celebrated the feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary; -- so called because the candles for the altar or other sacred uses are blessed on that day.

The state of being a captive or a prisoner. More celebrated in his captivity that in his greatest triumphs. Dryden.

entral teeth of bivalve shell. See Bivalve. -- Cardinal veins (Anat.), the veins in vertebrate embryos, which run each side of the vertebral column and returm the blood to the heart. They remain through life in some fishes. -- Cardinal virtues, preëminent virtues; among the ancients, prudence, justice, temperance, an…

A festival celebrated with merriment and revelry in Roman Gatholic countries during the week before Lent, esp. at Rome and Naples, during a few days (three to ten) before Lent, ending with Shrove Tuesday. The carnival at Venice is everywhere talked of. Addison.

To praise or celebrate in song. The Shepherds at their festivals Carol her goodness. Milton.

Celebration; solemnization. [Obs.] The celebrity of the marriage. Bacon.

A commemoration or celebration of an event which occurred a hudred years before.

Happening once in a hundred years; as, centennial jubilee; a centennial celebration.

in the performance of religious duties, the transaction of affairs of state, and the celebration of notable events; as, the ceremony of crowning a sovereign; the ceremonies observed in consecrating a church; marriage and baptismal ceremonies. According to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereo…

Of or pertaining to the Chalybes, an ancient people of Pontus in Asia Minor, celebrated for working in iron and steel.

To celebrate in song. The poets chant in the theaters. Bramhall.

The typical pentadactyloid limb of the higher vertebrates.

g the harder part of the outer integument of insects, crustacea, and various other invertebrates; entomolin.

rtilage, cartilaginous; as, the chondrocranium, the cartilaginous skull of the lower vertebrates and of embryos.

A comprehensive division of animals including all Vertebrata together with the Tunicata, or all those having a dorsal nervous cord.