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t. Res gestæ Etym: [L., things done] (Law), the facts which form the environment of a litigated issue. Wharton. -- Res judicata [L.] (Law), a thing adjudicated; a matter no longer open to controversy.

The act of resuming; as, the resumption of a grant, of delegated powers, of an argument, of specie payments, etc.

A genus of pterodactyls in which the elongated tail supported a leathery expansion at the tip.

An elongated pillar of ore or coal left as a support. Raymond.

A narrow and elongated aperture; a cleft; a fissure.

so perch, and pole. Black rod. See in the Vocabulary. -- Rods and cones (Anat.), the elongated cells or elements of the sensory layer of the retina, some of which are cylindrical, others somewhat conical.

A valuable cabinet wood of a dark red color, streaked and variegated with black, obtained from several tropical leguminous trees of the genera Dalbergia and Machærium. The finest kind is from Brazil, and is said to be from the Dalbergia nigra. African rosewood, the wood of the leguminous tree Pterocarpus erinaceus. --…

A chain of sheet metal links with an elongated hole through each broad end, made up by doubling the first link on itself, slipping the next link through and doubling, and so on.

Marked with small spots; variegated with spots; speckled; of a sandy color, as a hound. Shak.

Sown; propagated by seed. [Obs.] Evelyn.

have a sharklike form, but are more nearly allied to the rays. The flattened and much elongated snout has a row of stout toothlike structures inserted along each edge, forming a sawlike organ with which it mutilates or kills its prey.

tratum of finely ground gypsum mixed with glue, the surface of which, while soft, is variegated with splinters of marble, spar, granite, etc., and subsequently colored and polished.

erous species of marine gastropods of the genus Scalaria, or family Scalaridæ, having elongated spiral turreted shells, with rounded whorls, usually crossed by ribs or varices. The color is generally white or pale. Called also ladder shell, and wentletrap. See Ptenoglossa, and Wentletrap.

A deformed condition of the skull, in which the vault is narrow, clongated, and more or less boat-shaped.

Going or falling in various directions; not united or agregated; divided among many; as, scattering votes.

Acting by deputation or delegated authority; as, the work of secondary hands.

A plant reared from the seed, as distinguished from one propagated by layers, buds, or the like.

To separate from others; to set apart. They are still segregated, Christians from Christians, under odious designations. I. Taylor.

The act of segregating, or the state of being segregated; separation from others; a parting.

tive authority. The number is usually from three to seven in each town. The system of delegated town action was then, perhaps, the same which was defined in an "order made in 1635 by the inhabitants of Charlestown at a full meeting for the government of the town, by selectmen;" the name presently extended throughout Ne…