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An old province of France (in the eastern central part).

A stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).

A treasurer, or cash keeper; a purser; as, the bursar of a college, or of a monastery.

The treasury of a college or monastery.

can wild hog (Potamochoerus Africanus); -- called also bush pig, and water hog. -- Bush master (Zoöl.), a venomous snake (Lachesis mutus) of Guinea; -- called also surucucu. -- Bush pea (Bot.), a variety of pea that needs to be bushed. -- Bush shrike (Zoöl.), a bird of the genus Thamnophilus, and allied genera; -- c…

The common European starfish (Asterias rubens).

t of the modern city of Constantinople. [ Written also Bizantine.] Byzantine church, the Eastern or Greek church, as distinguished from the Western or Roman or Latin church.See under Greek. -- Byzantine empire, the Eastern Roman or Greek empire from A.D. 364 or A.D. 395 to the capture of Constantinople by the Turks, A…

and afterwards throughout Greece; -- also called sons of Hephæstus (or Vulcan), as being masters of the art of working metals. [Written also Cabeiri.] Liddell & Scott.

The decoration of a fluted shaft of a column or of a pilaster with reeds, or rounded moldings, which seem to be laid in the hollows of the fluting. These are limited in length to about one third of the height of the shaft.

ning the height of trees, and having the stem more or less woody within. See Acrogen, and Asterophyllite.

Any great misfortune or cause of misery; -- generally applied to events or disasters which produce extensive evil, either to communities or individuals.

A white or colored wash for the ceiling or other plastering of a room, consisting of a mixture of clear glue, Paris white or zinc white, and water. [Also spelt kalsomine.]

An apartment in a monastery, warmed and used as a sitting room.

, etc., esp. of those which are liable to change yearly according to the varying date of Easter.

-- so called because originally made of one the species of cane. Stir the fire with your master's cane. Swift.

In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.

Of or pertaining to cantharides or made of cantharides; as, cantharidal plaster.

ed by, or decorated with, projecting moldings or small columns; as, a cantoned pier or pilaster.

The musical director in royal or ducal chapel; a choirmaster. [Written also kepellmeister.]

The head or uppermost member of a column, pilaster, etc. It consists generally of three parts, abacus, bell (or vase), and necking. See these terms, and Column.