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A very soluble crystalline body which is the chief constituent of the urine in mammals and some other animals. It is also present in small quantity in blood, serous fluids, lymph, the liver, etc.

Of or pertaining to urea; containing, or consisting of, urea; as, ureal deposits.

An apparatus for the determination of the amount of urea in urine, in which the nitrogen evolved by the action of certain reagents, on a given volume of urine, is collected and measured, and the urea calculated accordingly.

Golden; gilded. Skelton.

A baccalaureate sermon. [U.S.]

The place where such a bureau is used; an office where business requiring writing is transacted.

A system of carrying on the business of government by means of departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chief, in contradiction to a system in which the officers of government have an associated authority and responsibility; also, government conducted on this system.

An official of a bureau; esp. an official confirmed in a narrow and arbitrary routine. C. Kingsley.

Of, relating to, or resembling, a bureaucracy.

An advocate for , or supporter of, bureaucracy.

omposite plants, related to the thistles and including the cornflower or bluebottle (Centaurea Cyanus) and the star thistle (C. Calcitrapa).

A remedy for all diseases, o

Pertaining to Epicurus, or following his philosophy. "The sect Epicurean." Milton.

Attachment to the doctrines of Epicurus; the principles or belief of Epicurus.

Crowned, or decked, with laurel. Chaucer. To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies. Milton. Soft on her lap her laureate son reclines. Pope. Poet laureate. (b) One who received an honorable degree in grammar, including poetry and rhetoric, at the English universities; -- so called as being presented with a wreath…

State, or office, of a laureate.

The act of crowning with laurel; the act of conferring an academic degree, or honorary title.

A genus of spiral gastropod shells, often of large size, characteristic of the lower Silurian rocks.

Of a purple color; purple.

Any fermentation process by which ammonia is formed, as that by which urea is converted into ammonium carbonate when urine is exposed to the air.