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Wanting health; valetudinary. [R.]

The chief city of Palestine, intimately associated with the glory of the Jewish nation, and the life and death of Jesus Christ. Jerusalem artichoke Etym: [Perh. a corrupt. of It. girasole i.e., sunflower, or turnsole. See Gyre, Solar.] (Bot.) (a) An American plant, a perennial species of sunflower (Helianthus tuberosus…

A lunisolar calendar in use among Hebraic peoples, reckoning from the year 3761 b. c., the date traditionally given for the Creation. It received its present fixed form from Hillel II. about 360 a. d. The present names of the months, which are Babylonian- Assyrian in origin, replaced older ones, Abib, Bul, etc., at the…

m a head, being nearly the original or wild form of the species. [Written also kail, and cale.]

One of several species of large, crested, Asiatic pheasants, belonging to the genus Euplocamus, and allied to the firebacks.

An instrument invented by Professor Wheatstone, consisting of a reflecting knob at the end of a vibrating rod or thin plate, for making visible, in the motion of a point of light reflected from the knob, the paths or curves corresponding with the musical notes produced by the vibrations.

een much employed in arts of design. Shifting like the fragments of colored glass in the kaleidoscope. G. W. Cable.

Of, pertaining to, or formed by, a kaleidoscope; variegated.

See Calendar.

See Calendarial.

See 3d Calender.

Same as Calends.

An aboriginal tribe inhabiting the southern part of Kamtschatka.

A feast at the time of shearing lambs.

The gromwell.

A place, spot, or location.

A gentle gale of wind.

A madrigalist.

A reformed prostitute.

A medicine in the form of a roll, a esp. a roll of plaster.