Reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness; accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic; as, a tame deer, a tame bird.

A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes; also, whatever causes such a feeling; as, to work annoy.

To affect or effect by conjuration; to call forth or send away by magic arts; to excite or alter, as if by magic or by the aid of supernatural powers.

Fig.: The top; the summit.

To splash, as water.

See Plait.

The act of rubbing together; friction; the act of wearing by friction, or by rubbing substances together; abrasion.

Agitation; excitement; distress of mind.

A multivocal word.

A small Italian coin worth a sou or a cent; the twentieth part of a lira.

A trade name applied somewhat indefinitely to some of the volatile products obtained in refining crude petroleum. It is a complex and variable mixture of several hydrocarbons, generally boils below 170¡ Fahr., and is more inflammable than safe kerosene. It is used as a solvent, as a carburetant for air gas, and for illumination in special lamps.

The large muscle which raises the under jaw, and assists in mastication.

Commonplace; trivial; hackneyed; trite.

A bird having small polygonal scales covering the tarsi.

A cruciferous herb of certain species of Dentaria; -- called also toothwort, tooth violet, or pepper root.

To blunt; to dull; to spoil; as, to foil the scent in chase.

See Gazelle.

To toddle; to walk unsteadily, like a child or an old man; hence, to do anything slowly or feebly.

The process of accruing, or that which has accrued; increase.

According to elements; literally; as, the words, "Take, eat; this is my body," elementally understood.

To render moral; to correct the morals of.

of Abet

Tribunician; tribunitial.

A salt of fluoboric acid; a fluoboride.

Cup-shaped; saucer-shaped; acetabuliform.

Situated beneath a spinous process, as that of the scapula; as, subspinous dislocation of the humerus.

The commoner kind of frankincense, or that obtained from the Norway spruce, the long-leaved pine, and other conifers.

Of or pertaining to the Leiotrichi.

A piece of DNA, usually circular, functioning as part of the genetic material of a cell, not integrated with the chromosome and replicating independently of the chromosome, but transferred, like the chromosome, to subsequent generations. In bacteria, plasmids often carry the genes for antibiotic resistance; they are exploited in genetic engineering as the vehicles for introduction of extraneous DNA into cells, to alter the genetic makeup of the cell. The cells thus altered may produce desirable proteins which are extracted and used; in the case of genetically altered plant cells, the altered cells may grow into complete plants with changed properties, as for example, increased resistance to disease.

A spitlike start, on the head of a young stag.