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A salt of oxamic acid.

Web-footed.

(Chem.) A salt of palmic acid; a ricinoleate. [Obsoles.]

Having the shape of the hand; resembling a hand with the fingers spread.

In a palmate manner.

Last but one; as, the penultimate syllable, the last syllable but one of a word.

A salt of perbromic acid.

A gelatin in which the algæ spores have been supposed to vegetate.

The delicate and highly vascular membrane immediately investing the brain and spinal cord.

A companion in diversions; a playfellow.

A salt of a polychromic acid.

Being or indicating the fourth syllable from the end of a word, or that before the antepenult.

One of the Primates.

The highest order of mammals. It includes man, together with the apes and monkeys. Cf. Pitheci.

The office, dignity, or position of a primate; primacy.

Nearest; next immediately preceding or following. "Proximate ancestors." J. S. Harford. The proximate natural causes of it [the deluge]. T. Burnet. Proximate analysis (Chem.), an analysis which determines the proximate principles of any substance, as contrasted with an ultimate analysis. -- Proximate cause. (a) A caus…

In a proximate manner, position, or degree; immediately.

A salt of racemic acid.

To animate anew; to restore to animation or life; to infuse new life, vigor, spirit, or courage into; to revive; to reinvigorate; as, to reanimate a drowned person; to reanimate disheartened troops; to reanimate languid spirits. Glanvill.

One of twe or more occupying the same room or rooms; one who shares the occupancy of a room or rooms; a chum.