(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, bile; as, choleic acid.

(a.) Of the nature of, or pertaining to, chorea; convulsive.

(a.) Alt. of Angelical

(a.) Of or derived from angelica; as, angelic acid; angelic ether.

(a.) Alt. of Aaronical

(a.) Extremely rigid in self-denial and devotions; austere; severe.

(n.) In the early church, one who devoted himself to a solitary and contemplative life, characterized by devotion, extreme self-denial, and self-mortification; a hermit; a recluse; hence, one who practices extreme rigor and self-denial in religious things.

(a.) Alt. of Ascitical

(a.) Not liable to putrefaction; nonputrescent.

(n.) An aseptic substance.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Asia or to its inhabitants.

(n.) A native, or one of the people, of Asia.

(a.) Pertaining to, or affected by, aphasia; speechless.

(a.) Shortened by dropping a letter or a syllable from the beginning of a word; as, an aphetic word or form.

(a.) Alt. of Aphonous

(a.) Pertaining to descent by the male line of ancestors.

(a.) Apogean.

(a.) Of or pertaining to pyaemia; of the nature of pyaemia.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the pylorus; as, the pyloric end of the stomach.

(a.) Of or pertaining to fever; febrile.

(a.) Related to, or formed from, pyridin or its homologues; as, the pyridic bases.

(a.) Alt. of Pyritical

(n.) An apparatus formerly used in distillation, usually made of glass or metal. It has mostly given place to the retort and worm still.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a chain of islands between Alaska and Kamtchatka; also, designating these islands.

(a.) Relating to a comet.

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, chromium; -- said of the compounds of chromium in which it has its higher valence.

(a.) Relating to time; according to time.

(a.) Continuing for a long time; lingering; habitual.

(a.) Pertaining to the Cimbri, an ancient tribe inhabiting Northern Germany.

(n.) The language of the Cimbri.

(a.) Alt. of Seismal

(a.) Relating to, or produced by, flesh or animal food; as, creatic nausea.

(a.) See Heptoic.

(a.) Pacific. See Irenic.

(a.) Relating to oleic acid, or elaine.

(a.) Springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twisted; springy; having the power of rebounding; as, a bow is elastic; the air is elastic; India rubber is elastic.

(a.) Able to return quickly to a former state or condition, after being depressed or overtaxed; having power to recover easily from shocks and trials; as, elastic spirits; an elastic constitution.

(n.) An elastic woven fabric, as a belt, braces or suspenders, etc., made in part of India rubber.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Friesland, a province in the northern part of the Netherlands.

(n.) The language of the Frisians, a Teutonic people formerly occupying a large part of the coast of Holland and Northwestern Germany. The modern dialects of Friesic are spoken chiefly in the province of Friesland, and on some of the islands near the coast of Germany and Denmark.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a certain school of Greek philosophers who taught that the only certain science is that which owes nothing to the senses, and all to the reason.

(n.) A philosopher of the Eleatic school.

(a.) See Eclectic.

(a.) Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains.

(a.) Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.

(n.) Elegiac verse.

(a.) Pertaining to, obtained from, or containing, fluorine.

(a.) Pertaining to pleasure.

(a.) Of or relating to Hedonism or the Hedonic sect.

(a.) Same as Haematic.

(n.) A medicine designed to improve the condition of the blood.

(a.) Abnormally regular or symmetrical.

(a.) Alt. of Paganical

(a.) Of or pertaining to peace; suited to make or restore peace; of a peaceful character; not warlike; not quarrelsome; conciliatory; as, pacific words or acts; a pacific nature or condition.

(a.) Resembling chaos; confused.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, butter.

(a.) Alt. of Celiac

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, chlorine; -- said of those compounds of chlorine in which this element has a valence of five, or the next to its highest; as, chloric acid, HClO3.

(a.) Acid; producing acid; -applied especially to certain glands and cells in the stomach.

(a.) Alt. of Juridical

(a.) Acting rapidly and violently; efficacious; powerful; -- opposed to bland; as, drastic purgatives.

(n.) A violent purgative. See Cathartic.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the diploe.

(a.) Of or pertaining to tin; derived from or containing tin; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with stannous compounds.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the body as a whole; corporeal; as, somatic death; somatic changes.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the wall of the body; somatopleuric; parietal; as, the somatic stalk of the yolk sac of an embryo.

(a.) Of or pertaining to rubidium; containing rubidium.

(a.) Making red; as, rubific rays.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found in many kinds of grapes. It is also obtained from tartaric acid, with which it is isomeric, and from sugar, gum, etc., by oxidation. It is a sour white crystalline substance, consisting of a combination of dextrorotatory and levorotatory tartaric acids.

(a.) Of or pertaining to anaemia.

(a.) Having little or no tendency to take a fixed or definite position or direction: thus, a suspended magnetic needle, when rendered astatic, loses its polarity, or tendency to point in a given direction.

(a.) Of or pertaining to baryta.

(a.) Pertaining to, or like, augite; containing augite as a principal constituent; as, augitic rocks.

(n.) The watch of a whole army by night, when in danger of surprise or attack.

(n.) An encampment for the night without tents or covering.

(v. i.) To watch at night or be on guard, as a whole army.

(v. i.) To encamp for the night without tents or covering.

(n.) Basilica.

(a.) Alt. of Basilical

(a.) Of or pertaining to a pipe (flute) or piper.

(a.) Caustic. See Caustic.

(n.) A caustic medicine.

(a.) Producing cold.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an ancient Greek martial dance.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a pyrrhic, or to pyrrhics; containing pyrrhic; as, a pyrrhic verse.

(n.) An ancient Greek martial dance, to the accompaniment of the flute, its time being very quick.

(n.) A foot consisting of two short syllables.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (called also pyroracemic acid) obtained, as a liquid having a pungent odor, by the distillation of racemic acid.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the second degree.

(n.) A quantic of the second degree. See Quantic.

(n.) A surface whose equation in three variables is of the second degree. Spheres, spheroids, ellipsoids, paraboloids, hyperboloids, also cones and cylinders with circular bases, are quadrics.

(a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, aptotes; uninflected; as, aptotic languages.

(a.) Pertaining to water; growing in water; living in, swimming in, or frequenting the margins of waters; as, aquatic plants and fowls.

(n.) An aquatic animal or plant.

(n.) Sports or exercises practiced in or on the water.

(a.) Pertaining to Aram, or to the territory, inhabitants, language, or literature of Syria and Mesopotamia; Aramaean; -- specifically applied to the northern branch of the Semitic family of languages, including Syriac and Chaldee.

(n.) The Aramaic language.

(n.) A homogeneous algebraic function of two or more variables, in general containing only positive integral powers of the variables, and called quadric, cubic, quartic, etc., according as it is of the second, third, fourth, fifth, or a higher degree. These are further called binary, ternary, quaternary, etc., according as they contain two, three, four, or more variables; thus, the quantic / is a binary cubic.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Arcadia; pastoral; ideally rural; as, Arcadian simplicity or scenery.

(a.) Of or characterized by antiquity or archaism; antiquated; obsolescent.

(a.) Of the fourth degree.

(n.) A quantic of the fourth degree. See Quantic.

(n.) A curve or surface whose equation is of the fourth degree in the variables.

(n.) A book or table, containing a calendar of days, and months, to which astronomical data and various statistics are often added, such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, etc.

(a.) Consisting chiefly of aloes; of the nature of aloes.

(n.) A medicine containing chiefly aloes.

(a.) Pertaining to Argolis, a district in the Peloponnesus.

(a.) Of or pertaining to ambrein; -- said of a certain acid produced by digesting ambrein in nitric acid.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Amhara, a division of Abyssinia; as, the Amharic language is closely allied to the Ethiopic.

(n.) The Amharic language (now the chief language of Abyssinia).

(a.) Of or pertaining to ammonia.

(a.) Of or pertaining to amnesia.

(a.) Of the fifth degree or order.

(n.) A quantic of the fifth degree. See Quantic.

(a.) Alt. of Armorican

(a.) Pertaining to, or containing, auxesis; amplifying.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the fir tree or its products; as, abietic acid, called also sylvic acid.

(a.) Alt. of Bacchical

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the Boletus.

(a.) Favorable; beneficent.

(n.) A broad belt, sometimes richly ornamented, worn over one shoulder, across the breast, and under the opposite arm; less properly, any belt.

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, benzoin.

(a.) Pertaining to, or in the style of, Lord Byron.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Cabiri, or to their mystical worship.

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, resin; as, the resinic acids.

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, coffee.

(a.) Of or pertaining to resin; derived from resin; specifically, designating an acid found in certain fossil resins and hydrocarbons.

(n.) The principle of heat, or the agent to which the phenomena of heat and combustion were formerly ascribed; -- not now used in scientific nomenclature, but sometimes used as a general term for heat.

(a.) Of or pertaining to caloric.

(n.) A fine, thin, and white fabric made of flax or linen.

(n.) A fabric made, in imitation of linen cambric, of fine, hardspun cotton, often with figures of various colors; -- also called cotton cambric, and cambric muslin.

(a.) Alt. of Cannonical

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, nonyl or its compounds; as, nonylic acid.

(a.) Pertaining to, or produced from, borax; containing boron; boric; as, boracic acid.

(a.) Having to hydrogen atoms which can be replaced by positive or basic atoms or radicals to form salts; -- said of acids. See Dibasic.

(a.) Alt. of Botanical

(a.) Of or pertaining to Bothnia, a country of northern Europe, or to a gulf of the same name which forms the northern part of the Baltic sea.

(n.) The peele.

(a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, rheum.

(a.) Shaped like a rhomb.

(a.) Same as Orthorhombic.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, castor oil; formerly, designating an acid now called ricinoleic acid.

(n.) One of the elements, a solid substance resembling a metal in its physical properties, but in its chemical relations ranking with the nonmetals. It is of a steel-gray color and brilliant luster, though usually dull from tarnish. It is very brittle, and sublimes at 356¡ Fahrenheit. It is sometimes found native, but usually combined with silver, cobalt, nickel, iron, antimony, or sulphur. Orpiment and realgar are two of its sulphur compounds, the first of which is the true arsenicum of the ancients. The element and its compounds are active poisons. Specific gravity from 5.7 to 5.9. Atomic weight 75. Symbol As.

(n.) Arsenious oxide or arsenious anhydride; -- called also arsenious acid, white arsenic, and ratsbane.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, arsenic; -- said of those compounds of arsenic in which this element has its highest equivalence; as, arsenic acid.

(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, silica; specifically, designating compounds of silicon; as, silicic acid.

(a.) Relating to the Saxons or Anglo- Saxons.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the scalds of the Norsemen; as, scaldic poetry.

(a.) Alt. of Caustical

(a.) Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.

(a.) A caustic curve or caustic surface.

(a.) Of or pertaining to scandium; derived from, or containing, scandium.

() Alt. of Scepticism

(a.) Alt. of Centrical

(a.) Of or pertaining to the hip; in the region of, or affecting, the hip; ischial; ischiatic; as, the sciatic nerve, sciatic pains.

(n.) Sciatica.

(a.) Of or pertaining to pottery; relating to the art of making earthenware; as, ceramic products; ceramic ornaments for ceilings.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, beeswax or Chinese wax; as, cerotic acid or alcohol.

(a.) Scoriaceous.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a bubo or buboes; characterized by buboes.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, spermaceti.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.

(n.) A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or connected with, plasma; plasmatic.

(a.) Of or pertaining to sinapine; specifically, designating an acid (C11H12O5) related to gallic acid, and obtained by the decomposition of sinapine, as a white crystalline substance.

(a.) Sour or severe.

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, mustard; -- used specifically to designate a glucoside called myronic acid, found in mustard seed.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, myrrh.

(a.) Of or pertaining to oolite; composed of, or resembling, oolite.

(a.) Of or relating to Titans, or fabled giants of ancient mythology; hence, enormous in size or strength; as, Titanic structures.

(a.) Of or pertaining to titanium; derived from, or containing, titanium; specifically, designating those compounds of titanium in which it has a higher valence as contrasted with the titanous compounds.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Homer, the most famous of Greek poets; resembling the poetry of Homer.

(a.) Designating, or pertaining to, the series of rocks forming the Taconic mountains in Western New England. They were once supposed to be older than the Cambrian, but later proved to belong to the Lower Silurian and Cambrian.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the family or the faction of the Guelphs.

(n.) The upper and outer element of periotic bone, -- in man forming a part of the temporal bone.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the spleen; lienal; as, the splenic vein.

(a.) Alt. of Druidical

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, ergot; as, ergotic acid.

(a.) Alt. of Eristical

(a.) Having no certain course; roving about without a fixed destination; wandering; moving; -- hence, applied to the planets as distinguished from the fixed stars.

(a.) Deviating from a wise of the common course in opinion or conduct; eccentric; strange; queer; as, erratic conduct.

(a.) Irregular; changeable.

(n.) One who deviates from common and accepted opinions; one who is eccentric or preserve in his intellectual character.

(n.) A rogue.

(n.) Any stone or material that has been borne away from its original site by natural agencies; esp., a large block or fragment of rock; a bowlder.

(a.) Of or pertaining to selenium; derived from, or containing, selenium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with selenious compounds.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Shem or his descendants; belonging to that division of the Caucasian race which includes the Arabs, Jews, and related races.

(n.) Of or pertaining to Rome or its people.

(n.) Of or pertaining to any or all of the various languages which, during the Middle Ages, sprung out of the old Roman, or popular form of Latin, as the Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Provencal, etc.

(n.) Related to the Roman people by descent; -- said especially of races and nations speaking any of the Romanic tongues.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a complex red dyestuff (called rosolic acid) which is analogous to rosaniline and aurin. It is produced by oxidizing a mixture of phenol and cresol, as a dark red amorphous mass, C20H16O3, which forms weak salts with bases, and stable ones with acids. Called also methyl aurin, and, formerly, corallin.

(a.) Of or pertaining to nomads, or their way of life; wandering; moving from place to place for subsistence; as, a nomadic tribe.

(a.) All-creating.

(a.) Same as Thebaic.

(n.) Alt. of Classical

(n.) A work of acknowledged excellence and authority, or its author; -- originally used of Greek and Latin works or authors, but now applied to authors and works of a like character in any language.

(n.) One learned in the literature of Greece and Rome, or a student of classical literature.

(a.) See under Capric.

(a.) Pertaining to what may be taken apart; as, clastic anatomy (of models).

(a.) Fragmental; made up of brok/ fragments; as, sandstone is a clastic rock.

(n.) Sal ammoniac. See under Sal.

(a.) Pertaining to, resembling, or hear the heart; as, the cardiac arteries; the cardiac, or left, end of the stomach.

(a.) Exciting action in the heart, through the medium of the stomach; cordial; stimulant.

(n.) A medicine which excites action in the stomach; a cardial.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Sappho, the Grecian poetess; as, Sapphic odes; Sapphic verse.

(a.) Belonging to, or in the manner of, Sappho; -- said of a certain kind of verse reputed to have been invented by Sappho, consisting of five feet, of which the first, fourth, and fifth are trochees, the second is a spondee, and the third a dactyl.

(n.) A Sapphic verse.

(a.) Of or pertaining to stupor; as, a carotic state.

(a.) Carotid; as, the carotic arteries.

(a.) Alt. of Satanical

(a.) Alt. of Satirical

(n.) A monk of the reformed branch of the Benedictine Order, founded in 912 at Cluny (or Clugny) in France. -- Also used as a.

(a.) Washing; cleansing.

(a.) Alt. of Satyrical

(a.) Of or pertaining to Olympus, a mountain of Thessaly, fabled as the seat of the gods, or to Olympia, a small plain in Elis.

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the horse-chestnut; as, esculic acid.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the dartos.

(a.) Of or pertaining to David, the king and psalmist of Israel, or to his family.

(a.) Alt. of Cryptical

(a.) Allied to, or containing, the radical decyl.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, cumin, or from oil of caraway; as, cuminic acid.

(a.) Alt. of Dynamical

(a.) Pertaining to, or afflicted with, dysury.

(a.) Pertaining to, derived from. or resembling, ethene or ethylene; as, ethenic ether.

(a.) Technical.

(a.) The method of performance in any art; technical skill; artistic execution; technique.

(a.) Technical terms or objects; things pertaining to the practice of an art or science.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a totem, or totemism.

(a.) Alt. of Venatical

(a.) Like lava, or composed of lava; lavic.

(a.) Of or pertaining to jalap.

(a.) Of or pertaining to uraemia; as, uraemic convulsions.

(a.) Without inclination or dipping; -- said the magnetic needle balances itself horizontally, having no dip. The aclinic line is also termed the magnetic equator.

(a.) Alt. of Acronychal

(a.) Alt. of Energical

(a.) Pertaining to, or indicating, fanaticism; extravagant in opinions; ultra; unreasonable; excessively enthusiastic, especially on religious subjects; as, fanatic zeal; fanatic notions.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or situated near, the stomach; as, the gastric artery.

(a.) See Scaldic.

(n.) One who is yet undecided as to what is true; one who is looking or inquiring for what is true; an inquirer after facts or reasons.

(n.) A doubter as to whether any fact or truth can be certainly known; a universal doubter; a Pyrrhonist; hence, in modern usage, occasionally, a person who questions whether any truth or fact can be established on philosophical grounds; sometimes, a critical inquirer, in opposition to a dogmatist.

(n.) A person who doubts the existence and perfections of God, or the truth of revelation; one who disbelieves the divine origin of the Christian religion.

(a.) Alt. of Skeptical

(a.) Pertaining to, held by, or like, the Docetae.

(a.) Having two acid hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by basic atoms or radicals, in forming salts; bibasic; -- said of acids, as oxalic or sulphuric acids. Cf. Diacid, Bibasic.

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the doegling; as, doeglic acid (Chem.), an oily substance resembling oleic acid.

(a.) Alt. of Monodical

(n.) A person affected by excessive enthusiasm, particularly on religious subjects; one who indulges wild and extravagant notions of religion.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Michael Faraday, the distinguished electrician; -- applied especially to induced currents of electricity, as produced by certain forms of inductive apparatus, on account of Faraday's investigations of their laws.

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, stearin or tallow; resembling tallow.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid obtained by the oxidation of narcotine.

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the lascivious compositions of the Greek poet Sotades.

(n.) A Sotadic verse or poem.

(a.) Alt. of Sothic

(a.) Strong; active; -- said especially of morbid states attended with excessive action of the heart and blood vessels, and characterized by strength and activity of the muscular and nervous system; as, a sthenic fever.

(a.) Of or pertaining to stichs, or lines; consisting of stichs, or lines.

(a.) Of or pertaining to spasm; spasmodic; especially, pertaining to tonic spasm; tetanic.

(a.) Like spar; foliated or lamellar; spathose.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the enteron, or alimentary canal; intestinal.

(a.) Alt. of Entomical

(a.) Having great tension, or exaggerated action.

(a.) Pertaining to the interior of the ear.

(a.) Of or pertaining to sperm, or semen.

(a.) Having the form of a sphere; like a sphere; globular; orbicular; as, a spherical body.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a sphere.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the heavenly orbs, or to the sphere or spheres in which, according to ancient astronomy and astrology, they were set.

(a.) Direct; proving directly; -- applied to reasoning, and opposed to elenchtic or refutative.

(a.) Alt. of Deistical

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Czechs.

(a.) Of or relating to Delphi, or to the famous oracle of that place.

(a.) Ambiguous; mysterious.

(a.) Relating to, or like, a delta.

(n.) See the Note under 2d Lac.

(a.) Of or pertaining to fat; derived from, or resembling, fat; specifically, designating an acid (formerly called also sebic, and pyroleic, acid), obtained by the distillation or saponification of certain oils (as castor oil) as a white crystalline substance.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a demon or to demons; demoniac.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the people; popular; common.

(a.) Alt. of Monadical

(a.) Of or pertaining to the river Nile; as, the Nilotic crocodile.

(a.) Nicotinic.

(a.) Pertaining to the Gemara.

(a.) Alt. of Generical

(a.) Same as Genetical.

(a.) A rural poem; a poetical composition on husbandry, containing rules for cultivating lands, etc.; as, the Georgics of Virgil.

(a.) Alt. of Georgical

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, gallnuts or gallic acid; as, ellagic acid.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, fumitory (Fumaria officinalis).

(a.) Embolismic.

(a.) Pertaining to an embolism; produced by an embolism; as, an embolic abscess.

(a.) Pushing or growing in; -- said of a kind of invagination. See under Invagination.

(a.) See Ecstatic, a.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, furile; as, furilic acid.

(n.) One who follows an empirical method; one who relies upon practical experience.

(n.) One who confines himself to applying the results of mere experience or his own observation; especially, in medicine, one who deviates from the rules of science and regular practice; an ignorant and unlicensed pretender; a quack; a charlatan.

(a.) Alt. of Empirical

(a.) Pertaining to, or produced from, emulsin; as, emulsic acid.

(a.) Alt. of Galenical

(an.) Alt. of Galenical

(a.) Alt. of Endemical

(n.) An endemic disease.

(n.) Same as Mollusk.

(a.) Having the characteristics of a triad; as, boron is triadic.

(a.) A term used in the phrase triatic stay. See under Stay.

(a.) Valerianic; specifically, designating any one of three metameric acids, of which the typical one (called also inactive valeric acid), C4H9CO2H, is obtained from valerian root and other sources, as a corrosive, mobile, oily liquid, having a strong acid taste, and an odor of old cheese.

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, vanadium; containing vanadium; specifically distinguished those compounds in which vanadium has a relatively higher valence as contrasted with the vanadious compounds; as, vanadic oxide.

() Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, ethyl; as, ethylic alcohol.

(a.) Denoting a mere result or consequence, as distinguished from telic, which denotes intention or purpose; thus the phrase / /, if rendered "so that it was fulfilled," is ecbatic; if rendered "in order that it might be." etc., is telic.

(n.) A drug, as ergot, which by exciting uterine contractions promotes the expulsion of the contents of the uterus.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, cloves; as, eugenic acid.

(a.) Well-born; of high birth.

(a.) Alt. of Eulogical

(a.) Out of place; congenitally displaced; as, an ectopic organ.

(a.) Pertaining to the Franks, or their language; Frankish.

(a.) Mad; raving; furious; violent; wild and disorderly; distracted.

(a.) Pertaining to or affecting the surface.

(a.) Of or containing acryl, the hypothetical radical of which acrolein is the hydride; as, acrylic acid.

(a.) Of or pertaining to actinism; as, actinic rays.

(a.) Producing contraction; stopping bleeding; having the quality of restraining hemorrhage when applied to the bleeding part; astringent.

(n.) A styptic medicine.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Glaucium or horned poppy; -- formerly applied to an acid derived from it, now known to be fumaric acid.

(a.) Of or pertaining to cork; specifically, designating an acid, C6H12.(CO2H)2, homologous with oxalic acid, and obtained from cork and certain fatty oils, as a white crystalline substance.

(n.) A system of phonetic spelling based upon the present values of English letters, but invariably using one symbol to represent one sound only.

(a.) Alt. of Glottidean

(a.) Of or pertaining to sculpture or carving of any sort, esp. to glyphs.

(a.) Of or pertaining to gem engraving.

(a.) Figured; marked as with figures.

(a.) Of or connected with nutrition; nitritional; nourishing; as, the so-called trophic nerves, which have a direct influence on nutrition.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the jaw.

(a.) Knowing; wise; shrewd.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Gnosticism or its adherents; as, the Gnostic heresy.

(n.) One of the so-called philosophers in the first ages of Christianity, who claimed a true philosophical interpretation of the Christian religion. Their system combined Oriental theology and Greek philosophy with the doctrines of Christianity. They held that all natures, intelligible, intellectual, and material, are derived from the Deity by successive emanations, which they called Eons.

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the poppy or opium; specif. (Chem.), designating an acid related to aconitic acid, found in opium and extracted as a white crystalline substance.

(n.) A remedy for the jaundice.

(a.) Alt. of Icterical

(a.) Identical.

(a.) Alt. of Idiotical

(a.) Of or belonging to idyls.

(a.) Having the power to give form or fashion to a mass of matter; as, the plastic hand of the Creator.

(a.) Capable of being molded, formed, or modeled, as clay or plaster; -- used also figuratively; as, the plastic mind of a child.

(a.) Pertaining or appropriate to, or characteristic of, molding or modeling; produced by, or appearing as if produced by, molding or modeling; -- said of sculpture and the kindred arts, in distinction from painting and the graphic arts.

(n.) a substance composed predominantly of a synthetic organic high polymer capable of being cast or molded; many varieties of plastic are used to produce articles of commerce (after 1900). [MW10 gives origin of word as 1905]

(a.) Belonging, or pertaining, to Megara, a city of ancient Greece.

(a.) Melanotic.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the black-haired races.

(a.) Harmonizing; irenic.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the liver; as, hepatic artery; hepatic diseases.

(a.) Resembling the liver in color or in form; as, hepatic cinnabar.

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the plants called Hepaticae, or scale mosses and liverworts.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, heptane; as, heptoic acid.

(n.) One who holds to a heresy; one who believes some doctrine contrary to the established faith or prevailing religion.

(n.) One who having made a profession of Christian belief, deliberately and pertinaciously refuses to believe one or more of the articles of faith "determined by the authority of the universal church."

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, hexyl or hexane; as, hexylic alcohol.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, asafetida (Ferula asafoetida); as, ferulic acid.

(n.) Any one of several species of small insectivores of the family Centetidae, belonging to Ericulus, Echinope, and related genera, native of Madagascar. They are more or less spinose and resemble the hedgehog in habits. The rice tendrac (Oryzorictes hora) is very injurious to rice crops. Some of the species are called also tenrec.

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, terbenthene (oil of turpentine); specifically, designating an acid, C7H10O4, obtained by the oxidation of terbenthene with nitric acid, as a white crystalline substance.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, ferns; as, filicic acid.

(n.) A limiting element or quality.

(a.) Of or pertaining to tetanus; having the character of tetanus; as, a tetanic state; tetanic contraction.

(a.) Producing, or tending to produce, tetanus, or tonic contraction of the muscles; as, a tetanic remedy. See Tetanic, n.

(n.) A substance (notably nux vomica, strychnine, and brucine) which, either as a remedy or a poison, acts primarily on the spinal cord, and which, when taken in comparatively large quantity, produces tetanic spasms or convulsions.

(a.) Of or pertaining to thallium; derived from, or containing, thallium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with the thallous compounds; as, thallic oxide.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Thebes in Egypt; specifically, designating a version of the Bible preserved by the Copts, and esteemed of great value by biblical scholars. This version is also called the Sahidic version.

(a.) Of the nature of melody; relating to, containing, or made up of, melody; melodious.

(a.) Seeking; proceeding by inquiry.

(n.) A seeker; -- a name adopted by some of the Pyrrhonists.

(a.) Of or pertaining to polity, or civil government; political; as, the body politic. See under Body.

(a.) Pertaining to, or promoting, a policy, especially a national policy; well-devised; adapted to its end, whether right or wrong; -- said of things; as, a politic treaty.

(a.) Sagacious in promoting a policy; ingenious in devising and advancing a system of management; devoted to a scheme or system rather than to a principle; hence, in a good sense, wise; prudent; sagacious; and in a bad sense, artful; unscrupulous; cunning; -- said of persons.

(n.) A politician.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the diaphragm; diaphragmatic; as, the phrenic nerve.

(a.) Same as Ceramic.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found in galipot, and isomeric with abietic acid.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a substance obtained from certain fatty substances, and subsequently shown to be a mixture of suberic and adipic acids.

(a.) Designating the acid proper (C5H10(CO2/H)2) which is obtained from camphoric acid.

(n.) A medicine supposed to promote the formation of callus.

(v. i.) To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods; to barter; to trade.

(v. i.) To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.

(v. t.) To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.

(v.) Commerce, either by barter or by buying and selling; interchange of goods and commodities; trade.

(v.) Commodities of the market.

(v.) The business done upon a railway, steamboat line, etc., with reference to the number of passengers or the amount of freight carried.

(a.) Relating to trypsin or to its action; produced by trypsin; as, trypsin digestion.

(a.) Pertaining to the Grallae.

(a.) Alt. of Graphical

(a.) Alt. of Synodical

(a.) Of or pertaining to tabes; of the nature of tabes; affected with tabes; tabid.

(n.) One affected with tabes.

(a.) Alt. of Tabifical

(a.) Alt. of Esopic

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, or designating, a complex organic acid found in the products of different members of the Pepper family, and extracted as a yellowish crystalline substance.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, a ketone; as, a ketonic acid.

(a.) designating the acid now called hydrocyanic acid, but formerly called prussic acid, because Prussian blue is derived from it or its compounds. See Hydrocyanic.

(a.) Alt. of Psychical

(a.) Practical.

(a.) Artful; deceitful; skillful.

(a.) Alt. of Prosaical

(a.) Of or pertaining to Freemasons or to their craft or mysteries.

(a.) Pertaining to, or discovered by, Meton, the Athenian.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the forehead or frontal bones; frontal; as, the metopic suture.

(a.) Affected by lunacy; insane; mad.

(a.) Of or pertaining to, or suitable for, an insane person; evincing lunacy; as, lunatic gibberish; a lunatic asylum.

(n.) A person affected by lunacy; an insane person, esp. one who has lucid intervals; a madman; a person of unsound mind.

(a.) Producing light.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid produced artifically as a white crystalline substance, CH2.(CO2H)2, and so called because obtained by the oxidation of malic acid.

(a.) Doing mischief; causing harm or evil; nefarious; hurtful.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the theorica.

(a.) Relating to, or skilled in, theory; theoretically skilled.

(n.) Speculation; theory.

(n.) Alt. of Theriaca

(a.) Alt. of Theriacal

(a.) Of or pertaining to heat; due to heat; thermal; as, thermic lines.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Hebrews, or to the language of the Hebrews.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the ivy (Hedera); as, hederic acid, an acid of the acetylene series.

(a.) Of or pertaining to sulphur; containing or resembling sulphur; specifically, designating certain of the thio compounds; as, the thionic acids. Cf. Dithionic, Trithionic, Tetrathionic, etc.

(n.) Alt. of Numerical

(n.) Any number, proper or improper fraction, or incommensurable ratio. The term also includes any imaginary expression like m + nÃ-1, where m and n are real numerics.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the desires; hence, impelling to gratification; appetitive.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an organ or its functions, or to objects composed of organs; consisting of organs, or containing them; as, the organic structure of animals and plants; exhibiting characters peculiar to living organisms; as, organic bodies, organic life, organic remains. Cf. Inorganic.

(a.) Produced by the organs; as, organic pleasure.

(a.) Instrumental; acting as instruments of nature or of art to a certain destined function or end.

(a.) Forming a whole composed of organs. Hence: Of or pertaining to a system of organs; inherent in, or resulting from, a certain organization; as, an organic government; his love of truth was not inculcated, but organic.

(a.) Pertaining to, or denoting, any one of the large series of substances which, in nature or origin, are connected with vital processes, and include many substances of artificial production which may or may not occur in animals or plants; -- contrasted with inorganic.

(a.) Alt. of Nymphical

(a.) Alt. of Obconical

(a.) Of or pertaining to making laws.

(a.) Pertaining to life; vital.

(a.) Alt. of Vivifical

(a.) Of or pertaining to vowel sounds; consisting of the vowel sounds.

(a.) Of the age of the Lias; pertaining to the Lias formation.

(n.) Same as Lias.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Alessandro Volta, who first devised apparatus for developing electric currents by chemical action, and established this branch of electric science; discovered by Volta; as, voltaic electricity.

(a.) Of or pertaining to voltaism, or voltaic electricity; as, voltaic induction; the voltaic arc.

(a.) Pertaining to, or having the property of, osmose; as, osmotic force.

(a.) Capable of producing bone; having the power to change cartilage or other tissue into bone.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the ocean; found or formed in or about, or produced by, the ocean; frequenting the ocean, especially mid-ocean.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Oceania or its inhabitants.

(a.) Of or pertaining to otalgia.

(n.) A remedy for otalgia.

(n.) An umbilicus. See Umbilicus, 5 (b).

(a.) See Umbilical, 1.

(n.) The navel; the center.

(a.) Alt. of Laconical

(n.) Laconism.

(a.) See Creatic.

(a.) Of or pertaining to paresis; affected with paresis.

(a.) Pleural.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or caused by, fermentation.

(a.) Designating, or pertaining to, a certain class of diseases. See Zymotic disease, below.

() Alt. of Mimetical

(a.) Producing motion.

(a.) Tending toward a yellow color, or to one of those colors, green being excepted, in which yellow is a constituent, as scarlet, orange, etc.

(a.) Possessing, imparting, or producing a yellow color; as, xanthic acid.

(a.) Of or pertaining to xanthic acid, or its compounds; xanthogenic.

(a.) Of or pertaining to xanthin.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C8H12O4, related to fumaric acid, and obtained from citraconic acid as an oily substance having a bittersweet taste; -- so called from its tendency to form its anhydride.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a complex acid related to mesitylenic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance by the action of sodium and carbon dioxide on crude xylenol.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, either one of two distinct acids which are derived from xylic acid and related compounds, and are metameric with uvitic acid.

(a.) Inducing or stimulating the secretion of mucus; blennogenous.

(a.) Secreting mucus.

(a.) Alt. of Mirifical

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid, obtained indirectly from mucic acid, and somewhat resembling itaconic acid.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Mishna.

(a.) More recent than the Paleozoic, -- that is, including the Mesozoic and Cenozoic.

(a.) Of or pertaining to npotism.

(a.) Munificent; liberal.

(n.) Any one of several species of small Asiatic deer of the genus Cervulus, esp. C. muntjac, which occurs both in India and on the East Indian Islands.

(a.) Palatal; palatine.

(n.) A palatal.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the ocean; -- applied especially to animals that live at the surface of the ocean, away from the coast.

(a.) Alt. of Parodical

(a.) On the side of the auditory capsule; near the external ear.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, resembling, or containing, lead; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which it has a higher valence as contrasted with plumbous compounds; as, plumbic oxide.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the phallus, or to phallism.

(a.) See Polar.

(a.) Of or pertaining to controversy; maintaining, or involving, controversy; controversial; disputative; as, a polemic discourse or essay; polemic theology.

(a.) Engaged in, or addicted to, polemics, or to controversy; disputations; as, a polemic writer.

(n.) One who writes in support of one opinion, doctrine, or system, in opposition to another; one skilled in polemics; a controversialist; a disputant.

(n.) A polemic argument or controversy.

(a.) Pertaining to, or desingating, an acid (called also valeric acid) derived from pentane.

(q.) Moving or causing motion; motory; active, as opposed to latent.

(a.) Pertaining to the Puranas.

(a.) Piratical.