A plant genus of the family APIACEAE used in SPICES.

evergreen Mediterranean tree with edible pods; the biblical carob

a sleeve for storing a phonograph record

kom-pan′yun, n. one who keeps company or frequently associates with another: an associate or partner: a higher rank of servant, who, though receiving pay, stands rather in the relation of a friend: fellow, in a bad sense.—v.t. to accompany.—adj. of the nature of a companion: accompanying.—adjs. Compan′iable (obs.), sociable; Compan′ionable, fit to be a companion: agreeable.—n. Compan′ionableness.—adv. Compan′ionably.—adj. Compan′ioned, having a companion.—ns. Compan′ionhood, Compan′ionary.—adj. Compan′ionless, without a companion.—n. Compan′ionship. [Fr. compagnon, from Low L. companium, a mess—L. com, with, and panis, bread.]

the operation of drawing blood to or from the surface of the person by forming a partial vacuum over the spot. Also, sometimes, a similar operation for drawing pus from an abscess

To approach from windward.

Class Dicotyledones, also known as dicots, is a classification of flowering plants (angiosperms) that have two embryonic seed leaves or cotyledons during their initial stage of development. This class of plants usually have features such as leaves with net-like veins, flower parts in multiples of four or five, and the presence of a main root. Examples of Dicotyledones include roses, sunflowers, and apple trees. This class has now been largely replaced in modern classification by the clade Eudicots, though some botanists still use the Dicotyledones categorization.

1. The main loop of an event-processing
   program; the code that gets commands and dispatches them for execution.
   2. [techspeak] In device
   driver, code designed to handle a particular peripheral device
   such as a magnetic disk or tape unit. 3. In the TeX world and the computerized typesetting world in
   general, a program that translates some device-independent or other common
   format to something a real device can actually understand.

necessarily or demonstrably true

something badly botched or muddled