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At some indefinite time. [R.]

A mineral found usually in thin, wedge-shaped crystals of a yellow or green to black color. It is a silicate of titanium and calcium; titanite.

Of or pertaining to both the sphenoidal and the ethmoidal regions of the skull, or the sphenethmoid bone; sphenethmoidal. Sphenethmoid bone (Anat.), a bone of the skull which surrounds the anterior end of the brain in many amphibia; the girdle bone.

Relating to the sphenoethmoid bone; sphenoethmoid.

Any species of penguin.

A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the sphenoid bone; as in sphenomaxillary, sphenopalatine.

Same as Hatteria.

Sphenethmoid.

A cuneiform, or arrow-headed, character.

One skilled in sphenography; a sphenographist.

Of or pertaining to sphenography.

A sphenographer.

The art of writing in cuneiform characters, or of deciphering inscriptions made in such characters.

Wedge-shaped; as, a sphenoid crystal.

Sphenoid.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the sphenotic bone. Sphenotic bone (Anat.), a bone on the anterior side of the auditory capsule of many fishes, and connected with, or adjoining, the sphenoid bone.

s, and characterized by strength and activity of the muscular and nervous system; as, a sthenic fever. Sthenic theory. See Stimulism (a).

An assemblage of upright stones with others placed horizontally on their tops, on Salisbury Plain, England, -- generally supposed to be the remains of an ancient Druidical temple.

To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; as, to strengthen a limb, a bridge, an army; to strengthen an obligation; to strengthen authority. Let noble Warwick, Cobham, and the rest, . . . With powerful policy strengthen themselves. Shak.

One who, or that which, gives or adds strength. Sir W. Temple.