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Of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants; as, a botanical system, arrangement, textbook, expedition. -- Botan"ic*al*ly, adv. Botanic garden, a garden devoted to the culture of plants collected for the purpose of illustrating the science of botany. -- Botanic physician, a physician whose medicines c…

One skilled in botany; one versed in the knowledge of plants.

To seek after plants for botanical investigation; to study plants.

One who botanizes.

A botanist. [Obs.]

The science of botany. [Obs.] Bailey.

An ancient species of divination by means of plants, esp. sage and fig leaves.

A book which treats of the science of botany.

A harbor on the east coast of Australia, and an English convict settlement there; -- so called from the number of new plants found on its shore at its discovery by Cook in 1770.

uth, copper, etc. It somewhat resembles silver, and isused for table ware. Called also Britannia metal.

Of or pertaining to Great Britain; British; as, her Britannic Majesty.

An inflammable gaseous hydrocarbon, C4H10, of the marsh gas, or paraffin, series.

One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey.

Pertaining to, or derived from, the tannin of coffee. Caffetannic acid, a variety of tannin obtained from coffee berries, regarded as a glucoside.

To clothe with a caftan. [R.] The turbaned and caftaned damsel. Sir W. Scott.

Perverse; contentious; ugly; malicious. [Colloq.] -- Can*tan"ker*ous*ly, adv. -- Can*tan"ker*ous*ness, n. The cantankerous old maiden aunt. Theckeray.

The chief admiral of the Turkish fleet.

e drum. It is operated either by steam power or by a number of men walking around the capstan, each pushing on the end of a lever fixed in its socket. [Sometimes spelt Capstern, but improperly.] Capstan bar, one of the long bars or levers by which the capstan is worked; a handspike.. -- To pawl the capstan, to drop th…

Any volatile liquid used in charging illuminating gases.

A genus of nut-bearing trees or shrubs including the chestnut and chinquapin.