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Bearing a horn, or horns, on the nose, as the rhinoceros.

Belonging to, or designating, the modern revival of classical, esp. Greco-Roman, taste and manner of work in architecture, etc.

All that architecture which, since the beginning of the Italian Renaissance, about 1420, has been designed with deliberate imitation of Greco-Roman buildings.

Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, a complex acid called nitroprussic acid, obtained indirectly by the action of nitric acid on potassium ferrocyanide (yellow prussiate), as a red crystalline unstable substance. It forms salts called nitroprussides, which give a rich purple color with alkaline subphides.…

Without sense; unmeaning; absurb; foolish; irrational; preposterous. -- Non*sen"si*cal*ly, adv. -- Non*sen"si*cal*ness, n.

A little bone; as, the auditory ossicles in the tympanum of the ear.

Having small bones.

Same as Ossicle.

Affected with palsy; palsied; paralytic. [R.] Johnson.

Paradisiacal. [R.] Broome.

Paradisiacal. [R.]

Of, pertaining to, resembling, or derived from, pectose; specifically, designating an acid supposed to constitute largely ordinary pectin or vegetable jelly.

lecules of a monacid base; having five acid hydrogen atoms capable of substitution by a basic radical; -- said of certain acids.

Of or relating to Persia. -- n.

See Lady's thumb.

= Persicot.

A cordial made of the kernels of apricots, nectarines, etc., with refined spirit.

Loving music. [R.]Busby.

Same as Phthisis.

Of or pertaining to phthisis; affected with phthisis; wasting; consumptive.