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One of those who commenced the reformation of religion in the sixteenth century, as Luther, Melanchthon, Zwingli, and Calvin.

e organ, played with one hand, the bellows being worked with the other, -- used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

A German cavalry soldier of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

echo. [Obs. or R.] "A church with windowss only form above, that reporteth the voice thirteen times." Bacon.

of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.

t in England, of the value of ten shillings sterling in the reign of Henry VI., and of fifteen shillings in the reign of Elizabeth. [Spelt also ryal.] Brande & C.

ght whale (Zoöl.), a small New Zealand whale (Neobalæna marginata) which is only about sixteen feet long. It produces short, but very elastic and tough, whalebone.

A frock or outer garment worn in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

A florid style of ornamentation which prevailed in Europe in the latter part of the eighteenth century.

A measure of length containing sixteen and a half feet; -- called also perch, and pole. Black rod. See in the Vocabulary. -- Rods and cones (Anat.), the elongated cells or elements of the sensory layer of the retina, some of which are cylindrical, others somewhat conical.

Specifically, a particular form of rondeau containing fourteen lines in two rhymes, the refrain being a repetition of the first and second lines as the seventh and eighth, and again as the thirteenth and fourteenth. E. W. Gosse.

A smoothly running passage of short notes (as semiquavers, or sixteenths) uniformly grouped, sung upon one long syllable, as in Handel's oratorios.

circular shield, sometimes not more than a foot in diameter, used by soldiers in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

the nineteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a consonanat, and is often called a sibilant, in allusion to its hissing sound. It has two principal sounds; one a more hissing, as in sack, this; the other a vocal hissing (the same as that of z), as in is, wise. Besides these it sometimes has the sounds of sh and zh,…

A round-toed, armed covering for the feet, worn during a part of the sixteenth century in both military and civil dress.

A name given in the sixteenth century to those German reformers who rejected both the Roman and the Lutheran doctrine of the holy eucharist.

A Chinese boat from twelve to fifteen feet long, covered with a house, and sometimes used as a permanent habitation on the inland waters. [Written also sanpan.]

A follower of Robert Sandeman, a Scotch sectary of the eighteenth century. See Glassite.

A long, low war galley used by the Neapolitans and Sicilians in the early part of the nineteenth century.

Discovered or described by C. V. Schneider, a German anatomist of the seventeenth century. Schneiderian membrane, the mucous membrane which lines the nasal chambers; the pituitary membrane.