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aracter, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.

Characteristic.

In a characteristic manner; in a way that characterizes.

id process. Cold abscess, an abscess of slow formation, unattended with the pain and heat characteristic of ordinary abscesses, and lasting for years without exhibiting any tendency towards healing; a chronic abscess.

Modulation of the voice in speaking; manner of speaking or pronouncing; peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice; tone; as, a foreign accent; a French or a German accent. "Beguiled you in a plain accent." Shak. "A perfect accent." Thackeray. The tender accent of a woman's cry. Prior.

To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to; as, grief ages us.

A thick, viscous nitrogenous substance, which is the chief and characteristic constituent of white of eggs and of the serum of blood, and is found in other animal substances, both fluid and solid, also in many plants. It is soluble in water is coagulated by heat ad by certain chemical reagents. Acid albumin, a modifica…

Relating to, becoming to, or like, an alderman; characteristic of an alderman.

rming a dark-colored solution which, when it collects in puddles and evaporates, produces characteristic black spots.

A characteristic crystalline substance, obtained from oil of bitter almonds.

Affected with amaurosis; having the characteristics of amaurosis.

A custom peculiar to the United States or to America; an American characteristic or idea.

American; to assimilate to the Americans in customs, ideas, etc.; to stamp with American characteristics.

acterized by grammatical endings. -- Analytical table (Nat. Hist.), a table in which the characteristics of the species or other groups are arranged so as to facilitate the determination of their names.

Uniting both sexes in one, or having the characteristics of both; being in nature both male and female; hermaphroditic. Owen. The truth is, a great mind must be androgynous. Coleridge.

Belonging to, or proceeding from, angels; resembling, characteristic of, or partaking of the nature of, an angel; heavenly; divine. "Angelic harps." Thomson."Angelical actions." Hooker. The union of womanly tenderness and angelic patience. Macaulay. Angelic Hymn, a very ancient hymn of the Christian Church; -- so calle…

Pertaining to, characteristic of, or held by, the high church party of the Church of England.

The quality of being English; an English characteristic, custom, or method.

A characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon race; especially, a word or an idiom of the Anglo-Saxon tongue. M. Arnold.

A division of Crustacea, which, in some its characteristics, is intermediate between Amphipoda and Isopoda.