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portment they should assume upon this mystical occasion, and read them two homilies and a thesis of my own composing, to prepare them. Goldsmith.

Sensuous perception. [R.] Ruskin.

See Anæsthesia.

The period or state of full expansion in a flower. Gray.

An antithesis in which the members are repeated in inverse order.

The second of two clauses forming an antithesis.

A place on the south side of the chancel in the primitive churches, furnished with shelves, for books, vestments, etc. Weale.

Synthesis of organic compounds by energy derived from chemical changes or reactions. Chemosynthesis of carbohydrates occurs in the nitrite bacteria through the oxidation of ammonia to nitrous acid, and in the nitrate bacteria through the conversion of nitrous into nitric acid. -- Chem`o*syn*thet"ic (#), a.…

Common sensation or general sensibility, as distinguished from the special sensations which are located in, or ascribed to, separate organs, as the eye and ear. It is supposed to depend on the ganglionic system.

Bodily condition or constitution, esp. a morbid habit which predisposes to a particular disease, or class of diseases.

The insertion of a letter or a sound in the body of a word; as, the b in "nimble" from AS. nemol.

The addition of a letter at the end of a word, without changing its sense; as, numb for num, whilst for whiles.

An eruption of the skin; cutaneous efflorescence.

sumed for the purpose of argument, or to account for a fact or an occurrence; as, the hypothesis that head winds detain an overdue steamer. An hypothesis being a mere supposition, there are no other limits to hypotheses than those of the human imagination. J. S. Mill.

The perception attendant upon the movements of the muscles. Bastian.

Learning; especially, mathematics. [R.] Pope.

, or result of exchange, substitution, or replacement of atoms and radicals; thus, by metathesis an acid gives up all or part of its hydrogen, takes on an equivalent amount of a metal or base, and forms a salt.

The placing of two or more nouns in the same case; apposition.

n curved lines (see def. 2 below), or dashes. "Seldom mentioned without a derogatory parenthesis." Sir T. Browne. Don't suffer every occasional thought to carry you away into a long parenthesis. Watts.

ears in the cells almost simultaneously with the sugars. The chloroplasts perform photosynthesis only in light and within a certain range of temperature, varying according to climate. This is the only way in which a plant is able to organize carbohydrates. All plants without a chlorophyll apparatus, as the fungi, must…