Acharnement :: Acharnement (n.) Savage fierceness; ferocity.

Alexipharmac :: Alexipharmac (a. & n.) Alt. of Alexipharmaca.

Alexipharmacal :: Alexipharmacal (a. & n.) Alexipharmic.

Alexipharmic :: Alexipharmic (a.) Alt. of Alexipharmica.

Alexipharmic :: Alexipharmic (n.) An antidote against poison or infection; a counterpoison.

Alexipharmical :: Alexipharmical (a.) Expelling or counteracting poison; antidotal.

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

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

Anacathartic :: Anacathartic (a.) Producing vomiting or expectoration.

Anacathartic :: Anacathartic (n.) An anacathartic medicine; an expectorant or an emetic.

Anacharis :: Anacharis (n.) A fresh-water weed of the frog's-bit family (Hydrocharidaceae), native to America. Transferred to England it became an obstruction to navigation. Called also waterweed and water thyme..

Anharmonic :: Anharmonic (a.) Not harmonic.

Antipharmic :: Antipharmic (a.) Antidotal; alexipharmic.

Bacharach :: Bacharach (n.) Alt. of Backarac.

Bahar :: Bahar (n.) A weight used in certain parts of the East Indies, varying considerably in different localities, the range being from 223 to 625 pounds..

Basking Shark :: Basking shark () One of the largest species of sharks (Cetorhinus maximus), so called from its habit of basking in the sun; the liver shark, or bone shark. It inhabits the northern seas of Europe and America, and grows to a length of more than forty feet. It is a harmless species..

Becharm :: Becharm (v. t.) To charm; to captivate.

Beghard :: Beghard (n.) Alt. of Beguar.

Bright-harnessed :: Bright-harnessed (a.) Having glittering armor.

Cantharidal :: Cantharidal (a.) Of or pertaining to cantharides or made of cantharides; as, cantharidal plaster..

Cantharides :: Cantharides (n. pl.) See Cantharis.

Cantharides :: Cantharides (pl. ) of Canthari.

Cantharidin :: Cantharidin (n.) The active principle of the cantharis, or Spanish fly, a volatile, acrid, bitter solid, crystallizing in four-sided prisms..

Cantharis :: Cantharis (n.) A beetle (Lytta, / Cantharis, vesicatoria), havin1g an elongated cylindrical body of a brilliant green color, and a nauseous odor; the blister fly or blister beetle, of the apothecary; -- also called Spanish fly. Many other species of Lytta, used for the same purpose, take the same name. See Blister beetle, under Blister. The plural form in usually applied to the dried insects used in medicine..

Caseharden :: Caseharden (v. t.) To subject to a process which converts the surface of iron into steel.

Caseharden :: Caseharden (v. t.) To render insensible to good influences.

Casehardened :: Casehardened (a.) Having the surface hardened, as iron tools..

Casehardened :: Casehardened (a.) Hardened against, or insusceptible to, good influences; rendered callous by persistence in wrongdoing or resistance of good influences; -- said of persons..

Casehardening :: Casehardening (n.) The act or process of converting the surface of iron into steel.

Cat-harpin :: Cat-harpin (n.) See Cat-harping.

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