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Manuscript. [Obs.]

One of a genus (Calochortus) of tuliplike bulbous herbs with large, and often gaycolored, blossoms. Called also butterfly lily. Most of them are natives of California.

A species of civet; the zoril.

Not hitherto described; novel; hence, odd; abnormal; unclassifiable.

aster than; to outrun; to advance beyond; to leave behing. Appetites which . . . had outstripped the hours. Southey. He still outstript me in the race. Tennyson.

Matured to excess. Milton.

To make too ripe. Shak.

To trip over nimbly.

Pinnate with an equal number of leaflets on each side; having no odd leaflet at the end.

One of a body of believers in the early church who denied the independent preëxistent personality of Christ, and who, accordingly, held that the Father suffered in the Son; a monarchian. -- Pa`tri*pas"sian*ism, n.

A peripatetic. [Obs.]

his instructions while walking in the Lyceum at Athens), or to his followers. "The true peripatetic school." Howell.

Peripatetic. [R.] Hales.

The doctrines or philosophical system of the peripatetics. See Peripatetic, n., 2. Lond. Sat. Rev.

A genus of lowly organized arthropods, found in South Africa, Australia, and tropical America. It constitutes the order Malacopoda.

Surrounding, or situated about, the petals.

Of or pertaining to a periphery; constituting a periphery; peripheric.

See Peripheral.

The outside or superficial portions of a body; the surface.

; a roundabout, or indirect, way of speaking; circumlocution. "To describe by enigmatic periphrases." De Quincey.