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A yellow aromatic liquid (C6H5.NO2), produced by the action of nitric acid on benzene, and called from its odor imitation oil of bitter almonds, or essence of mirbane. It is used in perfumery, and is manufactured in large quantities in the preparation of aniline. Fornerly called also nitrobenzol.

See Nitrobenzene.

A colorless mobile liquid of a pleasant aromatic odor obtained by the distillation of olibanum, or frankincense, and regarded as a terpene; -- called also conimene.

To bend to excess.

Hydroxy benzene. Same as Phenol.

Hydroxybenzoic; pertaining to, or designating, any one of several hydroxyl derivatives of benzonic acid, of which the commonest is salicylic acid.

See Perpender.

A payment or stipend; esp., the stipend or maintenance granted to a prebendary out of the estate of a cathedral or collegiate, church with which he is connected. See Note under Benefice.

Of or pertaining to a prebend; holding a prebend; as, a prebendal priest or stall. Chesterfield.

A clergyman attached to a collegiate or cathedral church who enjoys a prebend in consideration of his officiating at stated times in the church. See Note under Benefice, n., 3. Hook.

The office of a prebendary.

To invest with the office of prebendary; to present to a prebend. [Obs.] Grafton.

A prebendaryship. [Obs.] Foxe.

Lying down, or on the face; prone. " Procumbent each obeyed." Cowper.

The act of leaning, resting, or reclining; the state of being recumbent.

Recumbence.

Leaning; reclining; lying; as, the recumbent posture of the Romans at their meals. Hence, figuratively; Resting; inactive; idle. -- Re*cum"bent*ly, adv.

Swallowing up. Wodhull.

Anciently, a sackcloth coat worn by penitens on being reconciled to the church.

A contagious disease, endemic in Scotland, resembling the yaws. It is marked by ulceration of the throat and nose and by pustules and soft fungous excrescences upon the surface of the body. In the Orkneys the name is applied to the itch. [Written also sivvens.]