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Increasing the flow of milk; milk-producing. -- n. A galactopoietic substance.

hat generation or phase which bears sex organs. In the lower plants, as the algæ, the gametophyte is the conspicuous part of the plant body; in mosses it is the so-called moss plant; in ferns it is reduced to a small, early perishing body; and in seed plants it is usually microscopic or rudimentary.…

A division of Cheiroptera, including the bloodsucking bats. See Vampire.

Same as Hæmatoblast.

Blood formative; -- applied to a substance in early fetal life, which breaks up gradually into blood vessels.

See Hæmatoin.

A condition characterized by a tendency to profuse and uncontrollable hemorrhage from the slightest wounds.

A deviation from the natural position; -- a term applied in the case of organs or growths which are abnormal in situation.

A ship's masthead. Shak.

The top of a hill.

The tribal history of cells, a division of morphophyly. Haeckel.

To stop; to close; to make fast; as, to instop the seams. [Obs.] Dryden.

A gorgonian coral having a horny axis.

A machine combining a kinetoscope and a phonograph synchronized so as to reproduce a scene and its accompanying sounds.

See Karyoplasma.

A peculiar albuminous body considered a normal constituent of milk.

One who is set to stop balls which pass the wicket keeper.

A people visited by Ulysses in his wanderings. They subsisted on the lotus. See Lotus (b), and Lotus-eater.

The platform about the head of the mainmast in square-rigged vessels.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the devil Mephistopheles, "a crafty, scoffing, relentless fiend;" devilish; crafty.