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The yaws. See Yaws.

The magpie. [Written also pianate, and pyenate.]

A small piano; a pianino.

A pianette, or small piano.

Very soft; -- a direction to execute a passage as softly as possible. (Abbrev. pp.)

A performer, esp. a skilled performer, on the piano.

Soft; -- a direction to the performer to execute a certain passage softly, and with diminished volume of tone. (Abbrev. p.)

wires of graduated length, thickness, and tension, struck by hammers moved by keys. Dumb piano. See Digitorium. -- Grand piano. See under Grand. -- Square piano, one with a horizontal frame and an oblong case. -- Upright piano, one with an upright frame and vertical wires.

A form of melodiograph applied to a piano.

Pertaining to Æsculapius or to the healing art; medical; medicinal.

Of or pertaining to Æsop, or in his manner.

Belonging to bees.

Of or pertaining to Appius. Appian Way, the great paved highway from ancient Rome trough Capua to Brundisium, now Brindisi, constructed partly by Appius Claudius, about 312 b. c.

Consisting of the pericarp of the ripened pericarp with no other parts adnate to it, as a peach, a poppy capsule, or a grape.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a callithump. [U. S.]

Æsculapian.

Same as Æsopian, Æsopic.

A native or inhabitant of Ethiopia; also, in a general sense, a negro or black man.

Of or relating to Ethiopia or the Ethiopians.

Pertaining to, or discovered by, Fallopius; as, the Fallopian tubes or oviducts, the ducts or canals which conduct the ova from the ovaries to the uterus.