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A lunisolar calendar of India, according to which the year is divided into twelve months, with an extra month inserted after every month in which two new moons occur (once in three years). The intercalary month has the name of the one which precedes it. The year usually commences about April 11. The months are follows:…

One of an order of knights who built a hospital at Jerusalem for pilgrims, A. D. 1042. They were called Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, and after the removal of the order to Malta, Knights of Malta.

A pteroid of the genus Cavolina. See Pteropoda, and Illustration in Appendix.

The process of becoming, or the state of being, transparent like glass.

Having a syllable or two beyond measure; as, a hypercatalectic verse.

Destitute of an idea.

To pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake. See Empale. Then with what life remains, impaled, and left To writhe at leisure round the bloody stake. Addison.

The act of impaling, or the state of being impaled. Byron.

Want of prevalence. [Obs.]

The state of being incalescent, or of growing warm. Sir T. Browne.

Incalescence. Ray.

Growing warm; increasing in heat.

The state of not coalescing.

To breathe or draw into the lungs; to inspire; as, to inhale air; -- opposed to exhale. Martin was walking forth to inhale the fresh breeze of the evening. Arbuthnot.

Used for inhaling; as, the inhalent end of a duct. Dana.

One who inhales.

To place pales between or among; to separate by pales.

osits of earth from the adjacent hills. Cf. Bottom, n., 7. [Local, U. S.] The woody intervale just beyond the marshy land. The Century.

Impervious to heat; adiathermic.

Strength; health. [Obs.]