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Not vocal; destitute of tone. -- n.

Designating a complex ether, C.(OC2H5)4, which is obtained as a liquid of a pleasant ethereal odor by means of chlorpicrin, and is believed to be a derivative of the hypothetical normal carbonic acid, C.(OH)4.

Same as Merostomata. [Written also Palæocarida.]

With the lower focal points all in the same plane; -- said of sets of eyepieces so mounted that they may be interchanged without varying the focus of the instrument (as a microscope or telescope) with which they are used.

Same as Acraspeda.

A genus of seals. It includes the common harbor seal and allied species. See Seal.

Any species of Phoca; a seal.

Pertaining to seals.

Reflecting sound. [R.] "Phonocamptic objects." Derham.

A branch of a plumularian hydroid specially modified in structure for the protection of the gonothecæ.

An alkaloid extracted from jaborandi (Pilocarpus pennatifolius) as a white amorphous or crystalline substance which has a peculiar effect on the vasomotor system.

Any pleurocarpic moss.

in which the pedicels or the capsules are from lateral archegonia; -- opposed to Ant: acrocarpous.

The poke (Phytolacca decandra); -- called also pocan bush.

A stem, or footstalk, supporting the fruit.

Pert; petulant; forward; saucy. [R.] Barrow.

Forwardness; pertness; petulance. [R.] Burton.

The young tissue of a fibrovascular bundle before its component cells have begun to be differentiated. Sachs.

Beginning; predisposing; exciting; initial. [Obs.]

The kindling of a disease into action; also, the procatarctic cause. Quincy.