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at the altar during the communion service. The Archbishop of York was the celebrant, the epistoler being the dean, and the gospeler the Bishop of Sydney. Pall Mall Gazette.

An antiphon or responsory after the epistle, in the Mass, which was sung on the steps, or while the deacon ascended the steps.

A plate of metal, beneath the stock, or the lock frame, of a gun or pistol, having a loop, called a bow, to protect the trigger.

the part of a steam engine on which the crosshead slides, and by which the motion of the piston rod is kept parallel to the cylinder, being a substitute for the parallel motion; -- called also guide, and slide bar. -- Guide block (Steam Engine), a block attached in to the crosshead to work in contact with the guide b…

An order of Bryozoa, having no epistome.

A plant having the stamens inserted in the pistil.

lass of plants in the Linnaean system, whose stamens grow out of, or are united with, the pistil.

Having stamens inserted in the pistil; belonging to the class Gynandria.

ertaining to an abnormal condition of the flower, in which the stamens are converted into pistils. A. Brown.

ut having some hermaphrodite or perfect flowers on an individual plant which bears mostly pistillate flowers.

The pistils of a flower, taken collectively. See Illust. of Carpophore.

The pedicel raising the pistil or ovary above the stamens, as in the passion flower. Lindley.

A Linnæan order of plants having seven pistils.

Having seven pistils.

ing the parts of generation of both sexes, as when a flower contains both the stamens and pistil within the same calyx, or on the same receptacle. In some cases reproduction may take place without the union of the distinct individuals. In the animal kingdom true hermaphrodites are found only among the invertebrates. Se…

he condition of having two or more kinds of flowers which differ in regard to stamens and pistils, as in the aster.

n of having two or more kinds of flowers, different as to the length of their stamens and pistils.

A Linnæan order of plants having six pistils.

Having six pistils.

A remarkable South American bird (Opisthocomus cristatus); the crested touraco. By some zoölogists it is made the type of a distinct order (Opisthocomi).