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A mineral of the scapolite group; -- so called from the double effect of fire upon it, in fusing it, and rendering it phosphorescent.

ted; to part; to open; to go asunder. Milton. The Indo-Germanic family divides into three groups. J. Peile.

One of the groups into which a fleet is divided.

Any one of a group of thick oily hydrocarbons, C12H26, of the paraffin series.

Lit., a dean; the senior member of a body or group; as, the doyen of French physicians. "This doyen of newspapers." A. R. Colquhoun.

Of or pertaining to the Dravida. Dravidian languages, a group of languages of Southern India, which seem to have been the idioms of the natives, before the invasion of tribes speaking Sanskrit. Of these languages, the Tamil is the most important.

A name applied in Germany to the Permian formation, there consisting of two principal groups.

One of a group of gigantic, horned beetles, including Dynastus Neptunus, and the Hercules beetle (D. Hercules) of tropical America, which grow to be six inches in length.

An element of the rare earth-group. Symbol Dy; at. wt., 162.5.

and anteaters; -- called also Bruta. The incisor teeth are rarely developed, and in some groups all the teeth are lacking.

A group of Crustacea in which the eyes are without stalks; the Arthrostraca. [Written also Edriophthalmata.]

iscovered and named scandium; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the boron group. See Scandium.

overed and named germanium; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the silicon group. See Germanium, and cf. Ekkabor.

A group of chelonians which comprises many species of fresh- water tortoises and terrapins.

An extinct group of marine reptiles, embracing both the Ichthyosauria and the Plesiosauria, now regarded as distinct orders.

A group of Rhizopoda having a distinct nucleus, as the am

The number nine or a group of nine. The Enneads, the title given to the works of the philosopher Plotinus, published by his pupil Porphyry; -- so called because each of the six books into which it is divided contains nine chapters.

To encircle. [R.] The Muses and the Graces, grouped in threes, Enringed a billowing fountain in the midst. Tennyson.

A mineral of the pyroxene group, orthorhombic in crystallization; often fibrous and massive; color grayish white or greenish. It is a silicate of magnesia with some iron. Bronzite is a ferriferous variety.

A group of wormlike invertebrates having, along the sides of the body, branchial openings for the branchial sacs, which are formed by diverticula of the alimentary canal. Balanoglossus is the only known genus. See Illustration in Appendix.