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A fugue.

; fleeing away; lasting but a short time; volatile. Much of its possessions is so hid, so fugacious, and of so uncertain purchase. Jer. Taylor.

Fugacity. [Obs.]

The quality of being fugacious; fugaclousness; volatility; as, fugacity of spirits. Boyle.

Banishment. [Obs.] Milton.

in the gugue style, but not strictly like a fugue. -- n.

Tending or proceeding away from the base; as, a basifugal growth.

Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos. Centrifugal force (Mech.), a force whose direction is from a center.

th a porous or foraminous periphery is rapidly rotated so as to drive off liquid by centrifugal action.

bers which go from the brain to the spinal cord, and so transfer cerebral impulses (centrifugal impressions) outwards.

Having the quality of mitigating or curing fever. Boyle.

A division of arachnids having large, powerful fangs and a segmented abdomen; -- called also Solpugidea, and Solpugides.

Tending to prevent, destroy, or expel, worms or vermin; anthelmintic.

from which cahincic acid is obtained; also, the root of the South American Chiococca anguifuga, a celebrated antidote for snake poison.

Its flowers have a strong and fragrant and a bitter, aromatic taste. They are tonic, febrifugal, and in large doses emetic, and the volatile oil is carminative.

A term applied to the centrifugal, or efferent course of the nervous infuence. Marshall Hall.

The property or quality of being centrifugal. R. W. Emerson.

nter, as in case of a planet revolving round the sun, the center of the system, See Centrifugal force, under Centrifugal. -- Centripetal impression (Physiol.), an impression (sensory) transmitted by an afferent nerve from the exterior of the body inwards, to the central organ.

in medicine; -- also called pappoose root. The name is sometimes also given to the Cimicifuga racemosa, and to two species of Actæa, plants of the Crowfoot family.

A flattish or convex flower cluster, of the centrifugal or determinate type, differing from a corymb chiefly in the order of the opening of the blossoms.