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A Linnaean order of plants having eight pistils.

Having eight pistils; octagynous.

hich the genus Orchis is the type. They are mostly perennial herbs having the stamens and pistils united in a single column, and normally three petals and three sepals, all adherent to the ovary. The flowers are curiously shaped, often resembling insects, the odd or lower petal (called the lip) being unlike the others,…

direction. Upon this new fright, an order was made by both houses for disarming all the papists in England. Clarendon.

That part of the pistil which contains the seed, and in most flowering plants develops into the fruit. See Illust. of Flower.

to move without giving passage to air, water, or steam; as, to pack a joint; to pack the piston of a steam engine.

The substance in a stuffing box, through which a piston rod slides.

One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump. Knight.

A papist. [Obs.] Baxter.

ointed system of links, rods, or bars, by which the motion of a reciprocating piece, as a piston rod, may be guided, either approximately or exactly in a straight line. Rankine. (b) (Mus.) The ascending or descending of two or more parts at fixed intervals, as thirds or sixths. -- Parallel rod (Locomotive Eng.), a met…

wk. Ainsworth. -- Passenger pigeon (Zoöl.), the common wild pigeon of North America (Ectopistes migratorius), so called on account of its extensive migrations.

into the United States in 1852. The members of the order unite the austerities of the Trappists with the activity and zeal of the Jesuits and Lazarists. Called also Barefooted Clerks of the Most Holy Cross.

ul, or his writings; resembling, or conforming to, the writings of Paul; as, the Pauline epistles; Pauline doctrine. My religion had always been Pauline. J. H. Newman.

A Linnæan order of plants, having five styles or pistils.

ch set, as a flower with five sepals, five petals, five, or twice five, stamens, and five pistils.

Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of flower. Perfect cadence (Mus.), a complete and satisfactory close in harmony, as upon the tonic preceded by the dominant. -- Perfect chord (Mus.), a concord or union of sounds which is perfectly coalescent and agreeable to the ear, as the unison, octave, fifth…

Some unusual appendage about the pistil, as the bottle-shaped body in the sedges, and the bristles or scales in some other genera of the Sedge family, or Cyperaceæ.

Containing a petition; of the nature of a petition; as, a petitionary epistle. Swift.

Of or pertaining to St.Peter; as, the Petrine Epistles.

Having visible flowers containing distinct stamens and pistils; -- said of plants.