The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . fleshy annular disk,four-parted coriaceous two-celled capsule, amithe two long compressed, broadly winged only species, /*. utile, the sneezewood of South Africa,is a tree with bitter bark. opiKisite lunnate leaves, anaflowers in small panicles shorter than the leaves. Seesueezewood. Ptah (ptii), ». [Egyptian.] An Egj^itian di-vinity of high rank, worshiped especially atMemphis, and reverenced as the creative force. ptarmic (tiirmik), /(. [< Gr.
The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . fleshy annular disk,four-parted coriaceous two-celled capsule, amithe two long compressed, broadly winged only species, /*. utile, the sneezewood of South Africa,is a tree with bitter bark. opiKisite lunnate leaves, anaflowers in small panicles shorter than the leaves. Seesueezewood. Ptah (ptii), ». [Egyptian.] An Egj^itian di-vinity of high rank, worshiped especially atMemphis, and reverenced as the creative force. ptarmic (tiirmik), /(. [< Gr. nTn/)///Mir, causingto sneeze, < vraii/juc, a sneezing, < -rui/Mir, AttieTT-iipiivadai (-y/jTrn/)), sneeze, akin to L. steriiucrc,sneeze: see xleriiulaliou,] A medicine whichexcites sneezing; a sternutatory. Ptarmica (tiirini-kil), u. [NIy.(Neeker, 1791), < (ir. Tr-ai)/iiKi/, a plant, yarrow or milfoil; prop,fem. of Trrap/tiKur, causing to sm*eze : svi^ ptar-iiiii:] A former genus of plants, now unitedwitli Aril ill Ill. ptarmigan (tiirmi-gan), «. [With ji (:i)iiiar. Iiisl in K. pliiruiiiimi. so sjiclled. Psykter ui red-ti);urctl pottery : style of tlie artist liuthyiiiidcs,jth century, B. c. Kock Ptarmigan [IffiffS rufeslrU], in winter plumage. ptarmigan prob. because assumed to be of Gr. origin), for*tarmii/(iii, formerly termigant, tei>iinga>it,<. = Ii. tarmochan, also tarmoiiach, theptarmigan.] A bird of the family Tetraonida:and genus Ixigopus, having feathered feet. Thename was originally applied, in Scotland, to L. muHis oralpimis, a bird which formerly inhabited England andWales as well as Scotland, and is also found in Russia,Scandinavia, the Alps, Pyrenees, etc., and is representedin Iceland, Greenland, Siberia, and North America by aclosely allied species, L. ritpestrU. This bird turns whitein winter, like all of the genus Lagojnis, excepting , the red grouse, moor-fowl, or moor-ganie of tJreatBritain. The
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