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To give forth a play of colors, like the opal.

light from the interior of a mineral, as in the moonstone; the state or quality of being opalescent.

Reflecting a milky or pearly light from the interior; having an opaline play of colors.

Of, pertaining to, or like, opal in appearance; having changeable colors like those of the opal.

To convert into opal, or a substance like opal. Lyell.

A picture taken on "milky" glass.

Placed in front of a sepal.

Having the axis of an ovule or seed straight from the hilum and chalaza to the orifice or the micropyle; atropous.

g to the pope of Rome; proceeding from the pope; ordered or pronounced by the pope; as, papal jurisdiction; a papal edict; the papal benediction. Milman.

A papist. [Obs.] Baxter.

The papacy. [Obs.] Ld. Berners. Milton.

To make papal. [R.]

In a papal manner; popishly

The papacy. [Obs.] Milton.

One of the Pedipalpi.

A division of Arachnida, including the whip scorpions (Thelyphonus) and allied forms. Sometimes used in a wider sense to include also the true scorpions.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the pedipalps.

One of the second pair of mouth organs of arachnids. In some they are leglike, but in others, as the scorpion, they terminate in a claw.

Rotatory; circuitous. [R.]

Same as Peepul tree.