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er tends to prevent mischievous effects, or to counteract evil which something else might produce.

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

An opposition or contrast of words or sentiments occurring in the same sentence; as, "The prodigal robs his heir; the miser robs himself." "He had covertly shot at Cromwell; he how openly aimed at the Queen."

A substance (sometimes the product of a specific micro-organism and sometimes naturally present in the blood or tissues of an animal), capable of producing immunity from certain diseases, or of counteracting the poisonous effects of pathogenic bacteria.

speaker formally declines to take notice of a favorable point, but in such a manner as to produce the effect desired. [For example, see Mark Antony's oration. Shak., Julius Cæsar, iii. 2.]

Any fruit or other vegetable production resembling, or supposed to resemble, the apple; as, apple of love, or love apple (a tomato), balsam apple, egg apple, oak apple.

nd of etching in which spaces are bitten by the use of aqua fortis, by which an effect is produced resembling a drawing in water colors or India ink; also, the engraving produced by this method.

n minerals, or crystallizations, or groups of crystals in that form; as, the arborescence produced by precipitating silver.

A genus of palms, one species of which produces the areca nut, or betel nut, which is chewed in India with the leaf of the Piper Betle and lime.

Producing or containing silver; as, argentiferous lead ore or veins.

Producing clay; -- applied to such earths as abound with argil. Kirwan.

A large flatboat used on Western American rivers to transport produce to market.

The production of the tones of a chord in rapid succession, as in playing the harp, and not simultaneously; a strain thus played.

Producing males from unfertilized eggs, as certain wasps and bees.

A diseased condition produced by slow poisoning with arsenic.

Containing or producing arsenic.

The application of skill to the production of the beautiful by imitation or design, or an occupation in which skill is so employed, as in painting and sculpture; one of the fine arts; as, he prefers art to literature.

Produced, as a letter, syllable, or word, by the organs of speech; pronounced.

A product of human workmanship; -- applied esp. to the simpler products of aboriginal art as distinguished from natural objects.

Made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers. Artificial strife Lives in these touches, livelier than life. Shak.