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ound, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; farming.

pact variety of carbonate of lime, somewhat translucent, or of banded shades of color; stalagmite. The name is used in this sense by Pliny. It is sometimes distinguished as oriental alabaster.

Pertaining to expansions of the nasal bone or cartilage.

An ensign or flag. [Obs.] More dishonorable ragged than an old-faced ancient. Shak.

Good or used against bubonic plague; as, antibubonic serum, obtained from immunized horses; antibubonic vaccine, a sterilized bouillon culture of the plague bacillus; antibubonic measures.

The curved elevation of the cartilage of the ear, within or in front of the helix. See Ear.

A remedy against the plague. Brande & C.

Mucilage, especially that made of gum arabic.

Fit for plowing or tillage; -- hence, often applied to land which has been plowed or tilled.

Plowing; tillage. [R.] Lands are said to be in a state of aration when they are under tillage. Brande.

Contributing to tillage.

rings or circles. Armillary sphere, an ancient astronomical machine composed of an assemblage of rings, all circles of the same sphere, designed to represent the positions of the important circles of the celestial sphere. Nichol.

The cuckoopint of the English is an example. Our common arums the lords and ladies of village children. Lubbock.

Ladle-shaped; -- applied to two small cartilages of the larynx, and also to the glands, muscles, etc., connected with them. The cartilages are attached to the cricoid cartilage and connected with the vocal cords.

An assembling; assemblage. [Obs.] To weete [know] the cause of their assemblance. Spenser.

To abate or subside. [Archaic] "The waters assuaged." Gen. vii. 1. The plague being come to a crisis, its fury began to assuage. De Foe.

d or islands, consisting of a belt of coral reef, partly submerged, surrounding a central lagoon or depression; a lagoon island.

Having as immediate relation to the tonic, in distinction from plagal, which has a correspondent relation to the dominant in the octave below the tonic.

art out of sight, or not generally seen; as, the back of an island, of a hill, or of a village.

A little banner, flag, or streamer. [Written also bannerol.] From the extremity of which fluttered a small banderole or streamer bearing a cross. Sir W. Scott.