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erized by thoroughness and a reference to principles, as becomes a critic; as, a critical analysis of a subject.

e of a work of literature or art; a critical dissertation or essay; a careful and through analysis of any subject; a criticism; as, Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason." I should as soon expect to see a critique on the poesy of a ring as on the inscription of a medal. Addison.

ced artificially, and regarded as an unsaturated hydrocarbon of the acetylene series, and analogous to crotonic acid.

r leg, or to any of the parts called crura; as, the crural arteries; crural arch; crural canal; crural ring.

A transverse drain or waterway of masonry under a road, railroad, canal, etc.; a small bridge.

A substance, analogous to benzil, obtained from oil of caraway.

iveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare. "Acurious tale" Shak. A multitude of curious analogies. Mocaulay. Many a quaint and curiousvolume of forgotten lore. E. A. Poe. Abstruse investigations in recondite branches of learning or sciense often bring to light curious results. C. J. Smith. Curious arts, magic. [Obs.]…

A bending without angles; that wcich is bent; a flexure; as, a curve in a railway or canal.

A cunette. 3. (Spectrometry) (Analytical chemistry)

a monastery, Monastic dean, a monastic superior over ten monks. -- Dean's stall. See Decanal stall, under Decanal.

To rave as a bacchanal. [R.] Cockeram.

One who is given to intemperance or bacchanalian excesses; a man habitually lewd; a libertine.

Used of the side of the choir on which the dean's stall is placed; decanal; -- correlative to cantoris; as, the decanal, or decani, side.

a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of the ingredients of a compound; disintegration; as, the decomposition of wood, rocks, etc.

To free from inflections. Deflectionized languages are said to be analytic. Earle.

specially by a crystalline medium, such that the light which had been extinguished by the analyzer reappears as if the polarization had been anulled. The word is inappropriate, as the ray does not return to the unpolarized condition.

ly meeting, for the purpose of exploding gaseous mixtures by an electric spark, as in gas analysis, etc.

The method of investigating the truth by analysis.

To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme.

ll be. B. Jonson. Digestive apparatus, the organs of food digestion, esp. the alimentary canal and glands connected with it. -- Digestive salt, the chloride of potassium.