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igure 8, with both parts symmetrical, generated by the point in which a tangent to an equilateral hyperbola meets the perpendicular on it drawn from the center.

Cyprus, blowing from the northwest from eight o'clock, A. M., to the middle of the day or later.

g in a direct line from an ancestor; hereditary; derived from ancestors; -- opposed to collateral; as, a lineal descent or a lineal descendant. The prime and ancient right of lineal succession. Locke.

The name given in later times to the Asmonæans, a family of Jewish patriots, who headed a religious revolt in the reign of Antiochus IV., 168-161 B. C., which led to a period of freedom for Israel. Schaff-Herzog.

A dome parallel to the longer lateral axis of an orthorhombic crystal. See Dome, n., 4.

f the two planes of an orthorhombic crystal which are parallel to the vertical and longer lateral (macrodiagonal) axes.

One of the hard lateral pieces of the mastax of Rotifera. See Mastax.

A cylindrical pipe fitting, having a number of lateral outlets, for connecting one pipe with several others.

Originally, a napkin; later, an ornamental band or scarf worn upon the left arm as a part of the vestments of a priest in the Roman Catholic Church. It is sometimes worn in the English Church service.

Collateral security deposited with a broker to secure him from loss on contracts entered into by him on behalf of his principial, as in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, wheat, etc. N. Biddle. Margin draft (Masonry), a smooth cut margin on the face of hammer-dressed ashlar, adjacent to the joints. -- Margi…

ains four horny pieces. The two central ones form the incus, against which the mallei, or lateral ones, work so as to crush the food.

t of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess. This figure is of a later date, by the meanness of the workmanship. Addison.

Situated in the middle; lying in a plane dividing a bilateral animal into right and left halves; -- said of unpaired organs and parts; as, median coverts. Median line. (a) (Anat.) Any line in the mesial plane; specif., either of the lines in which the mesial plane meets the surface of the body. (b) (Geom.) The line dra…

The middle or inferior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain. B. G. Wilder.

Toward, or on the side toward, the mesial plane; mesially; -- opposed to laterad.

Middle; median; in, or in the region of, the mesial plane; internal; -- opposed to lateral. Mesial plane. (Anat.) See Meson.

The postero-lateral ossification in the sternum of birds; also, the part resulting from such ossification.

ariety of bitumen, resembling caoutchouc in elasticity and softness. See Caoutchouc, and Elaterite. -- Mineral chameleon (Chem.) See Chameleon mineral, under Chameleon. -- Mineral charcoal. See under Charcoal. -- Mineral cotton. See Mineral wool (below). -- Mineral green, a green carbonate of copper; malachite. --…

podaScaphopoda, and Lamellibranchiata, or Conchifera. These animals have an unsegmented bilateral body, with most of the organs and parts paired, but not repeated longitudinally. Most of them develop a mantle, which incloses either a branchial or a pulmonary cavity. They are generally more or less covered and protected…

lization in which the vertical axis is inclined to one, but at right angles to the other, lateral axis. See Crystallization.