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Having stamens and pistil in the same head, or, in mosses, having antheridia and archegonia on the same receptacle.

One of the first three Gospels of the New Testament. See Synoptist.

A translation or paraphrase of some portion of the Old Testament Scriptures in the Chaldee or Aramaic language or dialect.

To make a testament, or will. [Obs.]

The state or circumstance of being testate, or of leaving a valid will, or testament, at death.

A man who makes and leaves a will, or testament, at death.

A Linnæan class of plants having six stamens, four of which are longer than the others.

Belonging to the order Tetradynamia; having six stamens, four of which are uniformly longer than the others.

A Linnæan class of plants having four stamens.

Bearing the stamens directly on the receptacle; -- said of a subclass of polypetalous dicotyledonous plants in the system of De Candolle.

he very first, with our Lord himself, and his apostles, as represented to us in the New Testament, morals come before contemplation, ethics before theoretics. H. B. Wilson.

A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.

the anthers raised above the stigma, and visible at the throat of the corolla, as in long-stamened primroses; -- the reverse of pin-eyed.

Having stamens joined by filaments into three bundles. See Illust. under Adelphous.

A Linnæan class of plants having three distinct and equal stamens.

Of or pertaining to the Triandria; having three distinct and equal stamens in the same flower.

condition in which flowers of plants of the same species have three different lengths of stamens, short, medium, and long, the blossoms of one individual plant having short and medium stamens and a long style, those of another having short and long stamens and a style of medium length, and those of a third having medi…

ited Brethren. (Eccl.) See Moravian, n. -- United flowers (Bot.), flowers which have the stamens and pistils in the same flower. -- The United Kingdom, Great Britain and Ireland; -- so named since January 1, 1801, when the Legislative Union went into operation. -- United Greeks (Eccl.), those members of the Greek Ch…

Absence or lack of peace. [Obs.] Testament of Love.

ed, Version of the Scriptures (see under Authorized); the Septuagint Version of the Old Testament.