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An epoch at the close of the Canadian period of the American Lower Silurian system; -- so named from a township in Clinton Co., New York. See the Diagram under Geology.

Of or pertaining to Achaia in Greece; also, Grecian. -- n.

Savage fierceness; ferocity.

Purchase; bargaining. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A genus of land snails, often large, common in the warm parts of America and Africa.

Purveyor; acater. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Rising at sunset and setting at sunrise, as a star; -- opposed to cosmical.

A peculiar larval form of Phoronis, a genus of marine worms, having a circle of ciliated tentacles.

A mechanic or mechanician expert in the art and practice of aëronautics.

Of or pert. to aëromechanics.

The science of equilibrium and motion of air or an aëriform fluid, including aërodynamics and aërostatics.

A chamber or cavity filled with air, in an animal or plant.

A kind of annelid larva having both a dorsal and a ventral circle of special cilia.

A fresh-water weed of the frog's-bit family (Hydrocharidaceæ), native to America. Transferred to England it became an obstruction to navigation. Called also waterweed and water thyme.

Lawless; anarchical. [R.] We are in the habit of calling those bodies of men anarchal which are in a state of effervescence. Landor.

A chamber or apartment before the chief apartment and leading into it, in which persons wait for audience; an outer chamber. See Lobby.

The outer part of the west end of a collegiate or other chapel. Shipley.

Pertaining to the time before the Passover, or before Easter.

See Antechamber.

An articular surface on the ilium of birds against which the great trochanter of the femur plays.