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The principles, tendencies, or action of those, within the Roman Catholic Church in France, who (esp. in 1682) sought to restrict the papal authority in that country and increase the power of the national church. Schaff-Herzog Encyc.

A genus of fossil fishes, found in Devonian and carboniferous strata; -- so named from their round, sculptured spines.

ne, and so called because each molecule has sixteen atoms of carbon; -- called also hexadecane.

ies; -- so called because it has eleven atoms of carbon in each molecule. Called also endecane, undecane.

Having the spines of the dorsal fin unsymmetrical, or thickened alternately on the right and left sides.

See Hecdecane.

Having the dorsal fin spines symmetrical, and in the same line; -- said of certain fishes.

y prevalent in the East and West Indies. Also used figuratively. Like the smoke in a hurricane whirl'd. Tennyson. Each guilty thought to me is A dreadful hurricane. Massinger. Hurricane bird (Zoöl.), the frigate bird. -- Hurricane deck. (Naut.) See under Deck.

A waterspout; a hurricane. [Obs.] Drayton. "You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout." Shak.

Of or pertaining to Hyrcania, an ancient country or province of Asia, southeast of the Caspian (which was also called the Hyracanian) Sea. "The Hyrcan tiger." "Hyracanian deserts." Shak.

Sinlessness. Bp. Hall.

Sinless; impeccable. Byron.

Of or pertaining to the Incas.

A white heat, or the glowing or luminous whiteness of a body caused by intense heat.

White, glowing, or luminous, with intense heat; as, incandescent carbon or platinum; hence, clear; shining; brilliant. Holy Scripture become resplendent; or, as one might say, incandescent throughout. I. Taylor. Incandescent lamp or light (Elec.), a kind of lamp in which the light is produced by a thin filament of cond…

Becoming hoary or gray; canescent.

Hoary with white pubescence.

enchantment, or affecting other magical results; enchantment. "Mysterious ceremony and incantation." Burke.

Dealing by enchantment; magical. Sir T. Browne.

Enchanting. [Obs.] Sir T. Herbert.