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e to the summit, or to the side parallel to the base; as, the altitude of a triangle, pyramid, parallelogram, frustum, etc.

(Mus.) the counter-tenor clef, or the C clef, placed so that the two strokes include the middle line of the staff. Moore.

phamic acid. Amic acid (Chem.), one of a class of nitrogenized acids somewhat resembling amides.

A foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short (as, h. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet''ic.

A foot of three syllables, the middle one short and the others long, as in cast. Andrews.

Having the ovule inverted, but with the attachment near the middle of one side; half anatropous.

clause, at the beginning of the next, with an adjunct idea; as, "He retained his virtues amidst all his misfortunes -- misfortunes which no prudence could foresee or prevent."

A piece of malleable iron, wrought into the shape of a bar in the middle, but unwrought at the ends.

One of a class of compounds which may be regarded as amides in which more or less of the hydrogen has been replaced by phenyl.

d with circles. Annular eclipse (Astron.), an eclipse of the sun in which the moon at the middle of the eclipse conceals the central part of the sun's disk, leaving a complete ring of light around the border.

One of a group of perching birds, having the middle toe more or less united to the outer and inner ones.

ing arsenic, and used for secret poisoning, made by an Italian woman named Tofana, in the middle of the 17th century, who is said to have poisoned more than 600 persons. Francis. -- Aqua vitæ Etym: [L., water of life. Cf. Eau de vie, Usquebaugh], a name given to brandy and some other ardent spirits. Shak.…

unal. They will not arraign you for want of knowledge. Dryden. It is not arrogance, but timidity, of which the Christian body should now be arraigned by the world. I. Taylor.

the hind foot are even in number, and the third digit of each foot (corresponding to the middle finger in man) is asymmetrical and paired with the fourth digit, as in the hog, the sheep, and the ox; - - opposed to Perissodactyla.

rly supposed to live in the heavenly bodies or the aërial regions, and represented in the Middle Ages as fallen angels, spirits of the dead, or spirits originating in fire.

A genus of small glassy heteropod mollusks found swimming at the surface in mid ocean. See Heteropod.

s; especially at the entrance of a basilica or other church. The name was extended in the Middle Ages to the open churchyard or cemetery.

To make or take auguries; to augur; to predict. [Obs.] C. Middleton.

Past the middle of life; in the third stage. An autumnal matron. Hawthorne. Autumnal equinox, the time when the sun crosses the equator, as it proceeds southward, or when it passes the ~ point. -- ~= point, the point of the equator intersected by the ecliptic, as the sun proceeds southward; the first point of Libra.…

is about the size and shape of a large pear; -- called also avocado pear, alligator pear, midshipman's butter.