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h lions heads; having arms terminating in lions' heads; -- said of a cross. [Written also leonced.]

An order of teleostean fishes, having the gills arranged in tufts on the branchial arches, as the Hippocampus and pipefishes.

wars destroy in one year the works of many years of peace. Franklin. The mad promise of Cleon was fulfilled. Jowett (Thucyd.).

essed, painted, etc., in personating a character. The unthinking masses are necessarily teleological in their mental make-up. L. F. Ward.

See Coleoptera and Sea devil.

Artificial butter; oleomargarine.

d Italian family; as, the Medicean Venus. Medicean planets (Astron.), a name given by Galileo to the satellites of Jupiter.

The middle segment of the thorax in insects. See Illust. of Coleoptera.

Belonging, or relating, to the secondary or reptilian age, or the era between the Paleozoic and Cenozoic. See Chart of Geology.

The last or posterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Illust. of Coleoptera.

ng 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. -- Mineral kingdom (Nat. Sci.…

A labiate herb (Leonurus Cardiaca), of a bitter taste, used popularly in medicine; lion's tail.

h. -- Mountain tobacco (Bot.), a composite plant (Arnica montana) of Europe; called also leopard's bane. -- Mountain witch (Zoöl.), a ground pigeon of Jamaica, of the genus Geotrygon.

on of nature as a whole, incuding the sciences of botany, zoölogy, geology, mineralogy, paleontology, chemistry, and physics. In recent usage the term is often restricted to the sciences of botany and zoölogy collectively, and sometimes to the science of zoology alone. -- Natural law, that instinctive sense of justice…

designating the Neanderthal race, or man, a species supposed to have been widespread in paleolithic Europe.

he general advance in learning. The Neo-Scholastic movement received a great impetus from Leo XIII.'s interest in it.

More recent than the Paleozoic, -- that is, including the Mesozoic and Cenozoic.

s a network of fibers (chromatin) in which may be suspended a second rounded body, the nucleolus (see Nucleoplasm). See Cell division, under Division.

f the latest period of the Silurian age. Oriskany period, a subdivision of the American Paleozoic system intermediate or translational in character between the Silurian and Devonian ages. See Chart of Geology.

An extinct genus of Brachiopoda, abundant in the Paleozoic rocks.