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Pertaining to the peculiar species of rhyme called assonance; not consonant.

A plant of the genus Callistephus. Many varieties (called China asters, German asters, etc.) are cultivated for their handsome compound flowers.

one of the numerous small planets whose orbits lie between those of Mars and Jupiter; -- called also planetoids and minor planets.

One of the Pleiades; -- called also Sterope.

apilionaceous plants, of the tribe Galegeæ, containing numerous species, two of which are called, in English, milk vetch and licorice vetch. Gum tragacanth is obtained from different oriental species, particularly the A. gummifer and A. verus.

ft organic textures, and checks discharges of blood, mucus, etc. External astringents are called styptics. Dunglison.

is ascribed by some to Hilary, bishop of Arles (5th century). It is a summary of what was called the orthodox faith.

an species (Atherina presbyter) is used as food. The American species (Menidia notata) is called silversides and sand smelt. See Silversides.

Figures or half figures of men, used as columns to support an entablature; -- called also telamones. See Caryatides. Oxf. Gloss.

es between Europe and Africa on the east and America on the west; as, the Atlantic Ocean (called also the Atlantic); the Atlantic basin; the Atlantic telegraph.

A large, square folio, resembling a volume of maps; -- called also atlas folio.

ia. Atrabiliary arteries, capsules, and veins (Anat.), those pertaining to the kidney; -- called also renal arteries, capsules, and veins.

Like ink; suitable for making ink. Sulphate of iron (copperas, green vitriol) is called atramentarious, as being used in making ink.

amonium, or thorn apple. It is remarkable for its power in dilating the pupil of the eye. Called also daturine.

A broken gait of a horse, between an amble and a gallop; -- commonly called a Canterbury gallop.

any national literature, the period of its highest state of purity and refinement; -- so called because the reign of Augustus Cæsar was the golden age of Roman literature. Thus the reign of Louis XIV. (b. 1638) has been called the Augustan age of French literature, and that of Queen Anne (b. 1664) the Augustan age of…

A member of one of the religious orders called after St. Augustine; an Austin friar.

doctrines. Augustinian canons, an order of monks once popular in England and Ireland; -- called also regular canons of St. Austin, and black canons. -- Augustinian hermits or Austin friars, an order of friars established in 1265 by Pope Alexander IV. It was introduced into the United States from Ireland in 1790. --…

he Austrian empire, and the members of different provincial chanceries of that empire are called aulic councilors. P. Cyc.

ed electric fluid, emanating from an electrified body, and forming a mass surrounding it, called the electric atmosphere. See Atmosphere, 2.