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A little more; as, più allegro, a little more briskly.

The god of medicine. Hence, a physician.

A supposed rare element, said to be associated with cerium, yttrium, etc., in the mineral samarskite, and more recently called samarium. Symbol Dp. See Samarium.

Same as Ectropion.

The inversion or turning in of the border of the eyelids.

A depression in the sphenoid bone; the pituitary fossa.

Same as Æsculapius.

A metallic element of the rare-earth group, discovered spectroscopically by Demarcay in 1896. Symbol, Eu; at. wt., 152.0.

A genus of plants which yield the cotton of the arts. The species are much confused. G. herbaceum is the name given to the common cotton plant, while the long-stapled sea-island cotton is produced by G. Barbadense, a shrubby variety. There are several other kinds besides these.

A fleshy enlargement of the receptacle, or for the stem, below the proper fruit, as in the cashew. See Illust. of Cashew.

The pouch, formed by a fold of the skin of the abdomen, in which marsupials carry their young; also, a pouch for similar use in other animals, as certain Crustacea.

The inspissated juice of the Papaver somniferum, or white poppy.

A supposed new metal found in columbite, afterwards shown to be identical with columbium, or niobium.

A rare and doubtful metallic element said to have been discovered in the mineral samarskite.

A half bath, or one that covers only the lewer extremities and the hips; a sitz-bath; a half bath, or hip bath.

Same as Syncarp.

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

f a thing; changed condition. Ere long might perceive Strange alteration in me. Milton. Appius Claudius admitted to the senate the sons of those who had been slaves; by which, and succeeding alterations, that council degenerated into a most corrupt. Swift.

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.

A plant of the genus Convolvulus; as, greater bindweed (C. Sepium); lesser bindweed (C. arvensis); the white, the blue, the Syrian, bindweed. The black bryony, or Tamus, is called black bindweed, and the Smilax aspera, rough bindweed. The fragile bindweed bells and bryony rings. Tennyson.