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three masts, and a running bowsprit, and carrying lugsails. See Illustration in Appendix. Totten.

bent upon a yard that hangs obliquely to the mast and is raised or lowered with the sail. Totten.

A place of exercise with covered walks, in the suburbs of Athens, where Aristotle taught philosophy.

One of the side ropes to the gangway of a ship. Totten.

A Chilian shrub (Aristotelia Maqui). Its bark furnishes strings for musical instruments, and a medicinal wine is made from its berries.

as Buckbean. -- Marsh wren (Zoöl.), any species of small American wrens of the genus Cistothorus, and allied genera. They chiefly inhabit salt marshes.

Of or pertaining to a marsupium; as, the marsupial bones. Marsupial frog. (Zoöl.) See Nototrema.

Proceeding with regard to method; systematic. "Aristotle, strict, methodic, and orderly." Harris.

To assume a resemblance to (some other organism of a totally different nature, or some surrounding object), as a means of protection or advantage.

An optical effect, sometimes seen on the ocean, but more frequently in deserts, due to total reflection of light at the surface common to two strata of air differently heated. The reflected image is seen, commonly in an inverted position, while the real object may or may not be in sight. When the surface is horizontal,…

To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.

A short, round iron bar or lever used in naval gunnery. Totten.

The sum total of an army when assembled for review and inspection; the whole number of effective men in an army. And the muster was thirty thousands of men. Wyclif. Ye publish the musters of your own bands, and proclaim them to amount of thousands. Hooker.

order of causes and effects; the powers which produce existing phenomena, whether in the total or in detail; the agencies which carry on the processes of creation or of being; -- often conceived of as a single and separate entity, embodying the total of all finite agencies and forces as disconnected from a creating or…

lotinus was the chief (A. D. 205-270), and which sought to reconcile the Platonic and Aristotelian systems with Oriental theosophy. It tended to mysticism and theurgy, and was the last product of Greek philosophy.

Total abstinence from spirituous liquor.

sails, and for hoisting from the gunwale to the rigging to hinder an enemy from boarding. Totten. Netting needle, a kind of slender shuttle used in netting. See Needle, n., 3.

Totipalmate; -- said of the feet of certain birds. See Illust. of Aves. Oared shrew (Zoöl.), an aquatic European shrew (Crossopus ciliatus); -- called also black water shrew.

, as, to be observant of rules. We are told how observant Alexander was of his master Aristotle. Sir K. Digby.

h, as in most other vertebrates. They have been divided into three orders: Odontolcæ, Odontotormæ, and Saururæ.