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Wheel-shaped; as, rotiform appendages.

ng garnment for women, worn like a cloak about the shoulders, and serving as a decorative appendage to the gown; now, an outer garment with sleeves, worn by women; as, a dressing saek. [Written also sacque.]

Of or pertaining to an arrow; resembling an arrow; furnished with an arowlike appendage.

mming oceanic tunicates found abundantly in all the warmer latitudes. See Illustration in Appendix.

d animals, belonging to Brontosaurus, Camarasaurus, and alied genera. See Illustration in Appendix.

A small appendage like a rudimentary leaf, resembling the scales of a fish in form, and often in arrangement; as, the scale of a bud, of a pine cone, and the like. The name is also given to the chaff on the stems of ferns.

A thin leafike appendage (the exopodite) of the second maxilla of decapod crustaceans. It serves as a pumping organ to draw the water through the gill cavity.

each of the armlike lobes of the manubrium of many rhizostome medusæ. See Illustration in Appendix.

emerteans comprising those having a deep slit along each side of the head. See Illust. in Appendix.

ts are designated three-masted schooners, four-masted schooners, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.

A kind of pasture grass (Cynodon Dactylon). See Bermuda grass: also Illustration in Appendix.

The cup of a narcissus, or a similar appendage to the corolla in other flowers.

See under Robin, and Illustration in Appendix.

One of the Selachii. See Illustration in Appendix.

mooth blenny (Blennius pholis). It is olive-green with irregular black spots, and without appendages on the head.

ast, a topmast, and a topgallant mast, and square-rigged on all masts. See Illustation in Appendix. l Port or Larboard Side; s Starboard Side; 1 Roundhouse or Deck House; 2 Tiller; 3 Grating; 4 Wheel; 5 Wheel Chains; 6 Binnacle; 7 Mizzenmast; 8 Skylight; 9 Capstan; 10 Mainmast; 11 Pumps; 12 Galley or Caboose; 13 Main H…

The framework of anything; the principal parts that support the rest, but without the appendages. The great skeleton of the world. Sir M. Hale.

and mouth. See Illusts. of Carnivora, of Facial angles under Facial, and of Skeleton, in Appendix.

dical distinction is that a slop may carry a centerboard. See Cutter, and Illustration in Appendix. Sloop of war, formerly, a vessel of war rigged either as a ship, brig, or schooner, and mounting from ten to thirty-two guns; now, any war vessel larger than a gunboat, and carrying guns on one deck only.…

he solstices, or solstitial points, namely, about June 21 and December 21. See Illust. in Appendix.