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d in Eastern languages, literature, etc.; as, the Paris Congress of Orientalists. Sir J. Shore.

known, lived on the Ottawa River. Most of them subsequently migrated to the southwestern shore of Lake Superior.

The operation of removing one or both of the ovaries; oöphorectomy.

To rake over, or sweep across, from end to end, as waves that break over a vessel anchored with head to the sea.

a breeding place for oysters; a place in a tidal river or other water on or near the seashore, where oysters are deposited to grow and fatten for market. See lst Scalp, n. -- Oyster catcher (Zoöl.), any one of several species of wading birds of the genus Hæmatopus, which frequent seashores and feed upon shellfish. Th…

A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened. English pale (Hist.), the limits or territory within which alone the English conquerors of Ireland held dominion for a long period after their invasion of the country in 1172. Spencer.

Bearing palms; abounding in palms; derived from palms; as, a palmy shore. Pope. His golden sands and palmy wine. Goldsmith.

black, upright trunk, with palmate leaves. It is found native along the entire northern shores of the Indian Ocean, from the mouth of the Tigris to New Guinea. More than eight hundred uses to which it is put are enumerated by native writers. Its wood is largely used for building purposes; its fruit and roots serve for…

bblestone. "The pebbles on the hungry beach." Shak. As children gathering pebbles on the shore. Milton.

A female writer; an authoress. Johnson.

A sac which surrounds the generative bodies in the gonophore of a hydroid.

A genus of evergreen plants growing along the shores of the Mediterranean, and breading a fruit resembling that of the olive.

Phosphorescent. "A phosphoric sea." Byron. Glacial phosphoric acid. (Chem.) (a) Metaphosphoric acid in the form of glassy semitransparent masses or sticks. (b) Pure normal phosphoric acid. -- Phosphoric acid (Chem.), a white crystalline substance, H3PO4, which is the most highly oxidized acid of phosphorus, and forms…

Generating phosphorescence; as, phosphorogenic rays.

An apparatus for observing the phosphorescence produced in different bodies by the action of light, and for measuring its duration.

Hence, any substance which shines in the dark like phosphorus, as certain phosphorescent bodies. Bologna phosphorus (Chem.), sulphide of barium, which shines in the dark after exposure to light; -- so called because this property was discovered by a resident of Bologna. The term is sometimes applied to other compounds…

A genus including certain comma-shaped marine bacteria which emit bluish or greenish phosphorescence. Also, any microörganism of this group.

er of fresh-water Bryozoa in which the tentacles are arranged on a horseshoe-shaped lophophore, and the mouth is covered by an epistome. Called also Lophopoda, and hippocrepians.

Any siphonophore which has an air sac for a float, as the Physalia.

A projecting wharf or landing place. Abutment pier, the pier of a bridge next the shore; a pier which by its strength and stability resists the thrust of an arch. -- Pier glass, a mirror, of high and narrow shape, to be put up between windows. -- Pier table, a table made to stand between windows.