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An amorous composition or poem.

Of or pertaining to the passion of love; treating of love; amatory.

Erotic quality.

Filling up; promoting granulation of wounds or ulcers. -- n.

Pertaining to, or derived from, beeswax or Chinese wax; as, cerotic acid or alcohol.

The pterotic bone.

Of or pertaining to the rhinoceros. [R.]

Of or pertaining to the sclerotic coat of the eye; sclerotical.

Sclerotic.

ned from Chinese wax, and regarded as an alcohol of the marsh gas series; -- called also cerotic alcohol, ceryl alcohol.

umerous ocelli. See Ocellus. Description of illustration: a b Conjunctiva; c Cornea; d Sclerotic; e Choroid; f Cillary Muscle; g Cillary Process; h Iris; i Suspensory Ligament; k Prosterior Aqueous Chamber between h and i; l Anterior Aqueous Chamber; m Crystalline Lens; n Vitreous Humor; o Retina; p Yellow spot; q Cent…

A kind of Oriental lyric, and usually erotic, poetry, written in recurring rhymes.

with thickened or hardened walls, as in nutshells and the gritty parts of a pear. See Sclerotic.

Sclerotic. -- n.

Inflammation of the sclerotic coat.

Hard; indurated; sclerotic.

ve the choroid; -- applied to the layer of the choroid coat of the eyeball next to the sclerotic.