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A description of an army, or of what belongs to an army.

An order of fishes, resembling the Physoclisti, without spines in the dorsal, anal, and ventral fins. It includes the true flying fishes.

An edible labroid fish (Haitula onitis, or Tautoga onitis) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. When adult it is nearly black, more or less irregularly barred, with greenish gray. Called also blackfish, oyster fish, salt-water chub, and moll. [Written also tautaug.]

A message transmitted and recorded by a teleautograph.

tilized by electromagnetic devices and levers to move a pen as the pencil moves. --Tel`au*tog"ra*phist (#), n.

A photograph, image, or impression, reproduced by or taken with a telephotographic apparatus.

Designating, or pertaining to, the process of telephotography.

The photography of distant objects in more enlarged form than is possible by the ordinary means, usually by a camera provided with a telephoto lens or mounted in place of the eyepiece of a telescope, so that the real or a magnified image falls on the sensitive plate.

The formation of monsters.

A self-registering thermometer, especially one that registers the maximum and minimum during long periods. Nichol.

A description of sculpture such as bas-relief in metal.

unting, a building, a begging. "Jacob, when he was a dying" Heb. xi. 21. "We'll a birding together." " It was a doing." Shak. "He burst out a laughing." Macaulay. The hyphen may be used to connect a with the verbal substantive (as, a-hunting, a-building) or the words may be written separately. This form of expression i…

To gather together; to collect. [Obs.] Spenser.

A combining together. [R.]

any. [Obs.] Bacon. Men say that they will drive away one another, . . . and not accompany together. Holland.

To grow together.

A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers toes. Dana.

To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money.

n; electricity stored. -- An accumulation of degrees (Eng. Univ.), the taking of several together, or at smaller intervals than usual or than is allowed by the rules.

A plant of the highest class of cryptograms, including the ferns, etc. See Cryptogamia. The Age of Acrogens (Geol.), the age of coal plants, or the carboniferous era.