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Adjustive :: Adjustive (a.) Tending to adjust.

Arbustive :: Arbustive (a.) Containing copses of trees or shrubs; covered with shrubs.

Archenteron :: Archenteron (n.) The primitive enteron or undifferentiated digestive sac of a gastrula or other embryo. See Illust. under Invagination.

Temperament :: Temperament (v. t.) A system of compromises in the tuning of organs, pianofortes, and the like, whereby the tones generated with the vibrations of a ground tone are mutually modified and in part canceled, until their number reduced to the actual practicable scale of twelve tones to the octave. This scale, although in so far artificial, is yet closely suggestive of its origin in nature, and this system of tuning, although not mathematically true, yet satisfies the ear, while it has the convenienc

Stiving :: Stived (imp. & p. p.) of Stiv.

Feastful :: Feastful (a.) Festive; festal; joyful; sumptuous; luxurious.

Jib :: "Jib (v. i.) To move restively backward or sidewise, -- said of a horse; to balk..

Festive :: Festive (a.) Pertaining to, or becoming, a feast; festal; joyous; gay; mirthful; sportive..

Arrestive :: Arrestive (a.) Tending to arrest.

Chymification :: Chymification (n.) The conversion of food into chyme by the digestive action of gastric juice.

Investive :: Investive (a.) Investing.

Intempestive :: Intempestive (a.) Out of season; untimely.

System :: System (n.) An assemblage of parts or organs, either in animal or plant, essential to the performance of some particular function or functions which as a rule are of greater complexity than those manifested by a single organ; as, the capillary system, the muscular system, the digestive system, etc.; hence, the whole body as a functional unity..

Agastric :: Agastric (a.) Having to stomach, or distinct digestive canal, as the tapeworm..

Loose :: Loose (superl.) Lax; not costive; having lax bowels.

Inhibition :: Inhibition (n.) A stopping or checking of an already present action; a restraining of the function of an organ, or an agent, as a digestive fluid or ferment, etc.; as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes, etc..

Inanition :: Inanition (n.) The condition of being inane; emptiness; want of fullness, as in the vessels of the body; hence, specifically, exhaustion from want of food, either from partial or complete starvation, or from a disorder of the digestive apparatus, producing the same result..

Conviviality :: Conviviality (n.) The good humor or mirth indulged in upon festive occasions; a convivial spirit or humor; festivity.

Festally :: Festally (adv.) Joyously; festively; mirthfully.

Hepato-pancreas :: Hepato-pancreas (n.) A digestive gland in Crustacea, Mollusca, etc., usually called the liver, but different from the liver of vertebrates..

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