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oss, the shaft of which is intersected by two transverse beams, the upper one being the smaller. See Illust.

The art and the science of so delineating objects that they shall seem to grow smaller as they recede from the eye; -- called also linear perspective.

ood pewee (Zoöl.), a bird (Contopus virens) similar to the pewee (See Pewee, 1), but of smaller size.

are in a European town, especially an Italian town; hence (Arch.), an arcaded and roofed gallery; a portico. In the United States the word is popularly applied to a veranda. We walk by the obelisk, and meditate in piazzas. Jer. Taylor.

A size of type next larger than small pica, and smaller than English.

Any one of several species of freshwater fishes of the genus Esox, esp. the smaller species.

A picture gallery.

painting pictures upon, as a slab, plate, dish, or the like, hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn on the person, as a brooch.

ice or perform with diligence; to work at. Their bloody task, unwearied, still they ply. Waller.

The frescoed porch or gallery in Athens where Zeno taught. R. Browning.

ound and disk-shaped, with a large zooid in the center of the under side, surrounded by smaller nutritive and reproductive zooids, and by slender dactylozooids near the margin. The disk contains a central float, or pneumatocyst.

Colorado potato beetle, and Doryphora. See Colorado beetle. (b) The Lema trilineata, a smaller and more slender striped beetle which feeds upon the potato plant, bur does less injury than the preceding species. -- Potato fly (Zoöl.), any one of several species of blister beetles infesting the potato vine. The black s…

er, the body usually rounded or polygonal in plan with nearly vertical sides, a neck of smaller size, and a rounded shoulder.

. They shall practice how to live secure. Milton. Practice first over yourself to reign. Waller.

A protector; a guardian; a presiding genius. [Obs.] Just Apollo, president of verse. Waller.

ing. Chaucer. In the very prime of the world. Hooker. Hope waits upon the flowery prime. Waller.

ssion, etc.; a defender; a guardian; a patron. For the world's protector shall be known. Waller.

A South Africa genus of Carnivora, allied to the hyenas, but smaller and having weaker jaws and teeth. It includes the aard-wolf.

To cut off or cut out, as useless parts. Horace will our superfluous branches prune. Waller.

The bee moth, or wax moth (Galleria).