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Furnished with, or composed of, rings or ringlike segments; ringed.

A granular igneous rock composed almost exclusively of a soda- lime feldspar, usually labradorite.

Chamomile; a genus of composite, herbaceous plants.

The inflorescence of a compound flower in which many florets are gathered into a involucrate head.

A prefix meaning against, opposite or opposed to, contrary, or in place of; -- used in composition in many English words. It is often shortened to ant-; as, antacid, antarctic.

Anything to prevent the effects of friction, esp. a compound lubricant for machinery, etc., often consisting of plumbago, with some greasy material; antifriction grease.

A compound of antimonic acid with a base or basic radical. [Written also antimoniate.]

Pertaining to, or derived from, antimony; -- said of those compounds of antimony in which this element has its highest equivalence; as, antimonic acid.

Pertaining to, or derived from, antimony; -- said of those compounds of antimony in which this element has an equivalence next lower than the highest; as, antimonious acid.

A compound of antimonious acid and a base or basic radical.

A product of gastric and pancreatic digestion, differing from hemipeptone in not being decomposed by the continued action of pancreatic juice.

Preventing fermentation or decomposition. -- n.

A compound formerly supposed to be modification of oxygen, but now known to be hydrogen dioxide; -- so called because apparently antagonistic to ozone, converting it into ordinary oxygen.

Either entirely of partially separate, as the carpels of a compound pistil; -- opposed to syncarpous. Lindley.

One who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes.

A sugar of the composition C5H10O5, obtained from cherry gum by boiling it with dilute sulphuric acid.

Covered with, or composed of, soft, loose hairs or fibers, so as to resemble a cobweb; cobwebby.

A mineral identical in composition with calcite or carbonate of lime, but differing from it in its crystalline form and some of its physical characters.

etween the cracks of the surface in certain crustaceous lichens; or as between the fibers composing organs or vessels that interlace; or as between the nervures of an insect's wing.

paces or areolations, as the wings of insects, the leaves of plants, or the receptacle of compound flowers.