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A red coloring matter. extracted from the Bignonia Chica, used by some tribes of South American Indians to stain the skin.

A Mexican prickly poppy (Argemone platyceras), which has migrated into California.

the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry. Prior. To shuffle from them by chicane. Burke. To cut short this, I propound it fairly to your own canscience. Berkeley.

One who uses chicanery. Locke.

cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry. Irritated by perpetual chicanery. Hallam.

vernment; in political confusion; tending to produce anarchy; as, anarchic despotism; anarchical opinions.

Opposed to monarchial government. Bp. Benson. Addison.

Chief; primary; primordial. [Obs.] Cudworth.

Of or relating to Bacchus; hence, jovial, or riotous,with intoxication.

Pertaining to psychical phenomena in their relation to the living organism or to the general phenomena of life.

Pertaining to an elench.

By means of an elench.

Pertaining to a hierarchy. -- Hi`er*arch`ic*al*ly, adv.

Presiding over matter. [Obs.] Hallywell.

Of or pertaining to a monarch, or to monarchy. Burke. -- Mo*nar"chic*al*ly, adv.

Of or pertaining to oligarchy, or government by a few. "Oligarchical exiles." Jowett (Thucyd. ).

ining to the mind, or its functions and diseases; mental; -- contrasted with physical. Psychical blindness, Psychical deafness (Med.), forms of nervous disease in which, while the senses of sight and hearing remain unimpaired, the mind fails to appreciate the significance of the sounds heard or the images seen. -- Psy…

Of or pertaining to the stomach; as, stomachic vessels.

Expressed by synecdoche; implying a synecdoche. Isis is used for Themesis by a synecdochical kind of speech, or by a poetical liberty, in using one for another. Drayton.

By synecdoche.