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r territory within which alone the English conquerors of Ireland held dominion for a long period after their invasion of the country in 1172. Spencer.

riting; the art or science of deciphering ancient writings, and determining their origin, period, etc., from external characters; diplomatics.

las Athene, the Grecian goddess of wisdom, called also Athene, and identified, at a later period, with the Roman Minerva.

A printed sheet appearing periodically; a newspaper; a journal; as, a daily paper.

nit of measurement of the passenger transportation performed by a railroad during a given period, usually a year, the total of which consists of the sum of the miles traversed by all the passengers on the road in the period in question.

llectively; the total number of miles traveled by passengers on a railroad during a given period.

A style of four-legged table in vogue in England, chiefly in the later Georgian period.

Belonging or relating to the period, and also to the formation, next following the Carboniferous, and regarded as closing the Carboniferous age and Paleozoic era. -- n.

tual, or of preserving from extinction through an endless existence, or for an indefinite period of time; continuance. Sir T. Browne.

ition of an estate by which it becomes inalienable, either perpetually or for a very long period; also, the estate itself so modified or perpetuated.

Light blue; grayish blue; -- a term applied to different shades at different periods. -- n.

Remaining beyond the period when parts of the same kind sometimes fall off or are absorbed; permanent; as, persistent teeth or gills; a persistent calyx; -- opposed to deciduous, and caducous.

ating-current generators when juxtaposed in parallel and not agreeing exactly in phase or period.

The science of the relations between climate and periodic biological phenomena, as the migrations and breeding of birds, the flowering and fruiting of plants, etc. -- Phe`no*log"ic*al (#), a. -- Phe`no*log"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Phe*nol"o*gist (#), n.

A short clause or portion of a period.

y days of Italian art. J. S. Harford. Plastic clay (Geol.), one of the beds of the Eocene period; -- so called because used in making pottery. Lyell. -- Plastic element (Physiol.), one that bears within the germs of a higher form. -- Plastic exudation (Med.), an exudation thrown out upon a wounded surface and constit…

-- a species of love for which Plato was a warm advocate. -- Platonic year (Astron.), a period of time determined by the revolution of the equinoxes, or the space of time in which the stars and constellations return to their former places in respect to the equinoxes; -- called also great year. This revolution, which…

The Pliocene period or deposits.

Shak. O, think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots and their last fatal periods! Addison.

ing, or to point off groups of figures, etc.; a stop, as a comma, a semicolon, and esp. a period; hence, figuratively, an end, or conclusion. And there a point, for ended is my tale. Chaucer. Commas and points they set exactly right. Pope.