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In Gothic vaulting, any rib which does not spring from the impost and is not a ridge rib, but passes from one boss or intersection of the principal ribs to another.

A continuation of the petiole, extending from the base to the apex of the lamina of a leaf.

To ascribe wrongly.

To describe wrongly.

In a dying state; dying; at the point of death. The patient was comatose and moribund. Copland.

Not contributing.

To surpass in bribing.

The protoplasmic matter which surrounds the entoblast, or cell nucleus, and undergoes segmentation. -- Per`i*blas"tic, a.

Nascent cortex, or immature cellular bark.

In ancient architecture, an inclosed court, esp., one surrounding a temple.

Surrounding the branchiæ; as, a peribranchial cavity.

To make a postscript. [R.] T. Adams.

rule of action; to impose as a peremptory order; to dictate; to appoint; to direct. Prescribe not us our duties. Shak. Let streams prescribe their fountains where to run. Dryden.

One who prescribes.

tion; to put out of the protection of law; to outlaw; to exile; as, Sylla and Marius proscribed each other's adherents. Robert Vere, Earl of Oxford, . . . was banished the realm, and proscribed. Spenser.

One who, or that which, proscribes, denounces, or prohibits.

Same as Tetrabasic.

Quadrable. [R.]

The same as Quinquenerved.

The European red band fish, or fireflame. See Rend fish.