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In a tetrahedral manner.

d some varieties yield a considerable presentage of silver. Called also gray copper ore, fahlore, and panabase.

A solid figure inclosed or bounded by four triangles.

Pertaining to a tetrahexahedron.

A solid in the isometric system, bounded by twenty-four equal triangular faces, four corresponding to each face of the cube.

A tetrahexahedron.

To cut, strike, or kill, with a tomahawk.

A law; a precept.

Having thirty sides.

A trigonal trisoctahedron.

tric system bounded by twenty-four equal faces, three corresponding to each face of an octahedron. Tetragonal trisoctahedron, a trisoctahedron each face of which is a quadrilateral; called also trapezohedron and icositetrahedron. -- Trigonal trisoctahedron, a trisoctahedron each face of which is an isosceles triangle.…

A curious vegetable production of the Southern Atlantic United States, growing under ground like a truffle and often attaining immense size. The real nature is unknown. Called also Indian bread, and Indian loaf.

A silk cloth made from the cocoons of a caterpillar other than the common silkworm, much used in Bengal and China.

An undomesticated East Indian silkworn (Antheræa mylitta), that feeds on the leaves of the oak and other plants.

The burning bush; -- said to be called after a quack medicine made from it.

The panda.

A follower of Abdel Wahab (b. 1691; d. 1787), a reformer of Mohammedanism. His doctrines prevail particularly among the Bedouins, and the sect, though checked in its influence, extends to most parts of Arabia, and also into India. [Written also Wahaby.]

A certain shrub (Evonymus atropurpureus) having purple capsules which in dehiscence expose the scarlet-ariled seeds; -- called also burning bush.

A black variety of the jaguar; -- called also tapir tiger. [Written also walla.]

See Veddahs.