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The wood of a tree, too, when vegetating, may be ftyled du- 
midus, on account of the communicated moifiure which fup- 
ports it. Nay, Cicero, in one inftance; applies the term to 
wood that is green and newly cut." “ Ignem ex lignis viridi- 
“ bus atque 4umidis in loco angufto fieri juffit *.” 
Uvinus agrees with humidus, iri fuppofing, that the fubftance 
to which it is applied contains moifture, but does not fuggeft 
the means of fupplying the wafte, from whatever caufe it arifes. 
The definition given by SERvius of this term is more accurate 
and fatisfatory than that given of humidus. It were better, at 
the fame time, not to derive wva from uwvidus, but to confider 
the fhorteft of the two words as the root. ‘‘ Uvidum eft,’ fays 
he, “ quod intrinfecus habet aliquod humoris, unde uve di- 
** cuntur ft.” 
Arboribus redeunt detonfe frigore frondes, 
Uvidaque in gravido palmite gemma tumet {. 
Tue hand of art, it may be obferved, can operate in the 
deftruction of the quality denoted by wvidus. A grape may lofe 
its juice by its being exprefled, or by a forced evaporation fu- 
perinduced by heat, fo as to avoid putrefaction in the fub- 
ftance containing it. When the fucculent quality is deftroyed 
completely, the fubftance left behind quits both the natural te- 
nacity of its parts, and the flavour which diftinguifhed the 
fruit, and gets into the ftate denoted by aridus. When this 
quality is removed by an intended evaporation, it is removed 
only in part. Such a quantity of the juice is retained as is 
confiftent with the prefervation of the fruit, and as will emit 
its flavour. The fubftance is then in the ftate denoted by the 
p2 adjective 
* Cic in Ver. 2. 45. t Ovid. Faft. 4. 235. 
+ In Virg. Ec. 10. 20. 
