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A California rosaceous shrub (Adenostoma fasciculatum) which often forms an impenetrable chaparral.

pulpy mass of semi-digested food in the small intestines just after its passage from the stomach. It is separated in the intestines into chyle and excrement. See Chyle.

ere not counted as citizens and had not so much as a vote to serve as an anodyne to their stomachs. G. Eliot.

stly marine, comprising the Anthozoa, Hydrozoa, and Ctenophora. The name implies that the stomach and body cavities are one. The group is sometimes enlarged so as to include the sponges.

Often met with; usual; frequent; customary. Grief more than common grief. Shak.

An idea or expression wanting originality or interest; a trite or customary remark; a platitude.

An equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real eatate, in which it is customary to privide that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of compensation. Compensation balance, or Compensated balance, a kind of balance wheel for a timepiece. The rim is usually made of two di…

the mind; to devise; to make up; to contrive; to plan; to plot. He was a man of a feeble stomach, unable to concoct any great fortune. Hayward.

To take leave with the customary civilities; to bow or courtesy.

According to custom; customary; usual. [R.]

Customary.

social formalities or usages; that which is established by conventional use; one of the customary usages of social life.

Having frequent or customary intercourse; familiary associated; intimately acquainted. I have been conversant with the first persons of the age. Dryden.

r seeds of which have a strong smell and a spicy taste, and in medicine are considered as stomachic and carminative.

eet. D. Webster. Corpse candle. (a) A thick candle formerly used at a lich wake, or the customary watching with a corpse on the night before its interment. (b) A luminous appearance, resembling the flame of a candle, sometimes seen in churchyards and other damp places, superstitiously regarded as portending death. --…

of another; -- said of whatever is wrong or injurious; as, to correct the acidity of the stomach by alkaline preparations.

n of what is inconvenient or hurtful in its effects; as, the correction of acidity in the stomach.

The more or less frequent repetition of coughing, constituting a symptom of disease. Stomach cough, Ear cough, cough due to irritation in the stomach or ear.

Customary or established sequence of evants; re currence of events according to natural laws. By course of nature and of law. Davies. Day and night, Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost, Shall hold their course. Milton.

masses of calcareous matter found, at certain seasons of the year, on either side of the stomach of the European crawfishes, and formerly used in medicine for absorbent and antacid purposes; the gastroliths. -- Crab spider (Zoöl.), one of a group of spiders (Laterigradæ); -- called because they can run backwards or s…