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Alabama Period :: Alabama period () A period in the American eocene, the lowest in the tertiary age except the lignitic..

Antiperiodic :: Antiperiodic (n.) A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers..

Antiperistaltic :: Antiperistaltic (a.) Opposed to, or checking motion; acting upward; -- applied to an inverted action of the intestinal tube..

Antiperistasis :: Antiperistasis (n.) Opposition by which the quality opposed asquires strength; resistance or reaction roused by opposition or by the action of an opposite principle or quality.

Antiperistatic :: Antiperistatic (a.) Pertaining to antiperistasis.

Aperient :: Aperient (a.) Gently opening the bowels; laxative.

Aperient :: Aperient (n.) An aperient medicine or food.

Aperies :: Aperies (pl. ) of Aper.

Aperitive :: Aperitive (a.) Serving to open; aperient.

Apperil :: Apperil (n.) Peril.

Asperifoliate :: Asperifoliate (a.) Alt. of Asperifoliou.

Asperifolious :: Asperifolious (a.) Having rough leaves.

Asperities :: Asperities (pl. ) of Asperit.

Asperity :: Asperity (n.) Roughness of surface; unevenness; -- opposed to smoothness.

Asperity :: Asperity (n.) Roughness or harshness of sound; that quality which grates upon the ear; raucity.

Asperity :: Asperity (n.) Roughness to the taste; sourness; tartness.

Asperity :: Asperity (n.) Moral roughness; roughness of manner; severity; crabbedness; harshness; -- opposed to mildness.

Asperity :: Asperity (n.) Sharpness; disagreeableness; difficulty.

Attempering :: Attempering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Attempe.

Bona Peritura :: Bona peritura () Perishable goods.

Capering :: Capering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cape.

Catskill Period :: Catskill period () The closing subdivision of the Devonian age in America. The rocks of this period are well developed in the Catskill mountains, and extend south and west under the Carboniferous formation. See the Diagram under Geology..

Champlain Period :: Champlain period () A subdivision of the Quaternary age immediately following the Glacial period; -- so named from beds near Lake Champlain.

Chemung Period :: Chemung period () A subdivision in the upper part of the Devonian system in America, so named from the Chemung River, along which the rocks are well developed. It includes the Portage and Chemung groups or epochs. See the Diagram under Geology..

Coopering :: Coopering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coope.

Coppering :: Coppering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coppe.

Coppering :: Coppering (n.) The act of covering with copper.

Coppering :: Coppering (n.) An envelope or covering of copper.

Copperish :: Copperish (a.) Containing, or partaking of the nature of, copper; like copper; as, a copperish taste..

Crown-imperial :: Crown-imperial (n.) A spring-blooming plant (Fritillaria imperialis) of the Lily family, having at the top of the stalk a cluster of pendent bell-shaped flowers surmounted with a tuft of green leaves..