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s on the body and tail. It is a native of northern Africa and of Asia. The name is also applied to other species.

uthrity, or its author; -- originally used of Greek and Latin works or authors, but now applied to authors and works of a like character in any language. In is once raised him to the rank of a legitimate English classic. Macaulay.

s. Though throned midst Latium's classic plains. Mrs. Hemans. The epithet classical, as applied to ancient authors, is determined less by the purity of their style than by the period at which they wrote. Brande & C. He [Atterbury] directed the classical studies of the undergraduates of his college. Macaulay.…

iting or white lead, used in house painting, etc.; also, a size upon which gold leaf is applied in gilding.

enderness; mercy. Great clemency and tender zeal toward their subjects. Stowe. They had applied for the royal clemency. Macaulay.

Supplied with clients. [R.] The least cliented pettifiggers. R. Carew.

Like a bed; -- applied to several processes on the inner side of the sphenoid bone.

A double bar marking the end. At every close she made, the attending throng Replied, and bore the burden of the song. Dryden.

duced into the British House of Commons in 1882. The French word clôture was originally applied to this proceeding.

Cloud-gatherer; -- an epithet applied to Zeus. [Poetic.] Pope.

Like or related to the genus Clupeaster; -- applied to a group of flattened sea urchins, with a rosette of pores on the upper side.

, as distinguished from a drawing- room car, sleeping car, etc. It is sometimes loosely applied to any passenger car.

Pressed together; closely connected; -- applied to insects having the abdomen separated from the thorax only by a constriction. Coarctate pupa (Zoöl.), a pupa closely covered by the old larval skin, as in most Diptera.

The land of cockneys; cockneydom; -- a term applied to London and its suburbs. Smart.

ribs, of the genus Cardium, especially C. edule, used in Europe for food; -- sometimes applied to similar shells of other genera.

An object at which stones are flung. "Making a cockshy of him," replied the hideous small boy. Dickens.

A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest.

A house of entertainment, where guests are supplied with coffee and other refreshments, and where men meet for conversation. The coffeehouse must not be dismissed with a cursory mention. It might indeed, at that time, have been not improperly called a most important political institution . . . The coffeehouses were the…

Logically consistent; -- applied to persons; as, a coherent thinker. Watts.

The condition of being of equal in intensity; -- applied to relations; as, 3 : 6 and 6 : 12 are relations of cointension. Cointension . . . is chosen indicate the equality of relations in respect of the contrast between their terms. H. Spencer.