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Same as Impalement.

Without palpi.

Governed by bishops; as, an episcopal church.

Pertaining to bishops, or government by bishops; episcopal; specifically, of or relating to the Protestant Episcopal Church.

The doctrine and usages of Episcopalians; episcopacy.

By episcopal authority; in an episcopal manner.

Growing on the sepals or adnate to them.

trained, as upon a wall; a tree or row of trees so trained. And figs from standard and espalier join. Pope.

Any palm tree having fan-shaped or radiate leaves; as the Chamærops humilis of Southern Europe; the species of Sabal and Thrinax in the West Indies, Florida, etc.; and especially the great talipot tree (Corypha umbraculifera) of Ceylon and Malaya. The leaves of the latter are often eighteen feet long and fourteen wide,…

Semipalmate and loboped, as a grebe's foot. See Illust. under Aves.

Forked or branched like a pair of forceps; constructed so as to open and shut like a pair of forceps. Sir T. Browne.

Formed of united sepals; monosepalous.

A West Indian name for several kinds of palm. See Macaw tree, under Macaw. [Written also grigri palm.]

Turned half round; half inverted.

Having the embryo or ovule oblique or transverse to the funiculus; amphitropous. Gray.

Having high antlers; bearing full-grown antlers aloft.

Of or pertaining to the hippocampus.

Turned in the same direction with something else.

Of the same type of structure; pertaining to a homotype; as, homotypal parts.

to the fleets, instead of dare classibus austris, to give the fleets to the winds. The hypallage, of which Virgil is fonder than any other writer, is much the gravest fault in language. Landor.