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Any one of several umbelliferous plants, of the genera Myrrhis, Osmorrhiza, etc.

tence of vision the illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture machine; also, any of several other machines or devices producing moving pictorial effects. Other common names for the cinematograph are animatograph, biograph, bioscope, electrograph, electroscope, kinematograph, kinetoscope, veriscope, vitagraph, vit…

A Linnæan genus of free-flowering composite plants, mostly from South Africa. Several species are cultivated for ornament.

The name of several different species of the genus Potentilla; -- also called five-finger, because of the resemblance of its leaves to the fingers of the hand.

Curved circularly; -- applied to several arteries of the hip and thigh, to arteries, veins, and a nerve of the shoulder, and to other parts.

f Crustacea including the barnacles. When adult, they have a calcareous shell composed of several pieces. From the opening of the shell the animal throws out a group of curved legs, looking like a delicate curl, whence the name of the group. See Anatifa.

more acid and has a more pronounced aroma than the orange; the tree is hardier. There are several varieties.

A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln.

Like a bed; -- applied to several processes on the inner side of the sphenoid bone.

A thickened glandular portion of the body of the adult earthworm, consisting of several united segments modified for reproductive purposes.

compact harmony, in which the tones composing each chord are not widely distributed over several octaves. -- Close time, a fixed period during which killing game or catching certain fish is prohibited by law. -- Close vowel (Pron.), a vowel which is pronounced with a diminished aperture of the lips, or with contract…

mson. Clustered column (Arch.), a column which is composed, or appears to be composed, of several columns collected together.

of the vertebral column beyond the sacrum in man and tailless monkeys. It is composed of several vertebræ more or less consolidated.

ales of the Coccus cacti, an insect native in Mexico, Central America, etc., and found on several species of cactus, esp. Opuntia cochinellifera.

and the head ornamented with a crest, which can be raised or depressed at will. There are several genera and many species; as the broad-crested (Plictolophus, or Cacatua, cristatus), the sulphur-crested (P. galeritus), etc. The palm or great black cockatoo of Australia is Microglossus aterrimus. Cock"a*trice, n. Etym:…

A coarse, composite weed, having a rough or prickly fruit; one of several species of the genus Xanthium; -- called also clotbur.

A joint heir; one of two or more heirs; one of several entitled to an inheritance.

One of several signs or sumptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease.

A plant of several species of the Mint family, cultivated for its bright-colored or variegated leaves.

urality of origin or authority; as, in diplomacy, a note signed by the representatives of several governments is called a collective note. Collective fruit (Bot.), that which is formed from a mass of flowers, as the mulberry, pineapple, and the like; -- called also multiple fruit. Gray.