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An anterior zygapophysis.

A figure by which things are represented as persons, or by which things inanimate are spoken of as animated beings; also, a figure by which an absent person is introduced as speaking, or a deceased person is represented as alive and present. It includes personification, but is more extensive in its signification.…

One of the clergy of first rank in the lower order of secular clergy; an archpriest; -- called also protopapas.

The act of repeopling; act of furnishing with a population anew.

Eating, or subsisting on, filth.

The horn poppy. See under Horn.

A kind of catchfly (Silene inflata) which is sometimes frothy from the action of captured insects.

Any element of the skeleton in relation with the alimentary canal, as the jaws and hyoidean apparatus. -- Splanch`nap`o*phys"i*al, a. Mivart.

A double ear trumpet for estimating the direction from which sounds proceed, esp. for the use of navigators.

To divest of the character, office, or authority of a pope.

One of the articular processes of a vertebra, of which there are usually four, two anterior and two posterior. See under Vertebra. -- Zyg`ap*o*phys"i*al, a.

l court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form.

The white polar (Populus alba). Six abeles i' the churchyard grow. Mrs. Browning.

A representative of the pope charged with important commissions in foreign countries, one of his duties being to bring to a newly named cardinal his insignia of office.

The water used in cleansing. "Cast the ablutions in the main." Pope.

Absorbed. [Arcahic.] "Absorpt in care." Pope.

Marked by, or spent in, abstinence; as, an abstemious life. "One abstemious day." Pope.

This proffer is absurd and reasonless. Shak. 'This phrase absurd to call a villain great. Pope. p. 9

abuse one's authority. This principle (if one may so abuse the word) shoots rapidly into popularity. Froude.

An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school.