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The Angelus bell. Shipley.

An animalcule.

A ring; a ringlike part or space.

A group of insects which includes the lice.

Before the flood, or Deluge, in Noah's time.

Of or relating to the period before the Deluge in Noah's time; hence, antiquated; as, an antediluvian vehicle. -- n.

es of Christians, in ancient times of persecution, held before light in the morning. "Antelucan worship." De Quincey.

An ornamental appendage of wood at the ship's stern, usually spreading like a fan and curved like a bird's feather. Audsley.

A large theorbo, or double-necked lute, formerly in use, having the bass strings doubled with an octave, and the higher strings with a unison.

A genus of copepod Crustacea, parasitic of fishes; a fish louse. See Branchiura.

A exterior covering, forming a false coat or appendage to a seed, as the loose, transparent bag inclosing the seed or the white water lily. The mace of the nutmeg is also an aril. Gray.

A joint of the cirri of the Crinoidea; a joint or segment of an arthropod appendage.

A genus of large and voracious two-winged flies, including the bee killer and robber fly.

Sluggishly. [Obs.] Fotherby.

the Roman Catholic church for sprinkling holy water on the people. [Also written aspergillus.]

The ankle bone, or hock bone; the bone of the tarsus which articulates with the tibia at the ankle.

taken without sacrilege. So sacred was the church to some, that it had the right of an asylum or sanctuary. Ayliffe.

A variety of bacterium; a microscopic, rod-shaped vegetable organism.

A meteorite, or similar rude stone artificially shaped, held sacred or worshiped as of divine origin.

A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building.