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Aryan; -- applied to the languages of India and Europe which are derived from the prehistoric Aryan language; also, pertaining to the people or nations who speak these languages; as, the Indo- European or Aryan family. The common origin of the Indo-European nations. Tylor.

The act of putting one in possession of an estate in fee. Sir M. Hale.

Between the neural arches or neural spines. -- n.

A subclass of Gastropoda, in which the body is symmetrical, the right and left sides being equal.

In the Middle Ages, armor for the legs below the knees. [Written also giambeux.] Chaucer.

A witticism.

Lit., gilded youth; young people of wealth and fashion, esp. if given to prodigal living; -- in the French Revolution, applied to young men of the upper classes who aided in suppressing the Jacobins after the Reign of Terror.

usually of his own composition. See Troubadour. Vivacity and picturesquenees of the jongleur's verse. J R. Green.

The upper division of the European Triassic. See Chart of Geology.

coin formerly used in South Germany; also, a small Austrian copper coin. [Written also kreuzer.]

Acting as a hired servant; serving; ministering; assisting. [Obs.]

. Same as Leuco-.

A genus of evergreen shrubs from the Cape of Good Hope, having handsome foliage. Leucadendron argenteum is the silverboom of the colonists.

A colorless, crystalline, organic base, obtained from rosaniline by reduction, and also from other sources. It forms colorless salts.

See Leucocythæmia. -- Leu*chæm"ic, a. [Written also leukæmia, leukæmic.]

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from leucin, and called also oxycaproic acid.

m. Chemically it is to be considered as amido-caproic acid. (CH3)2CH.CH2.CH(NH2)-COOH. L-leucine, the natural form, is present in most proteins.

A leucoplast.

Containing leucite; as, leucitic rocks.

rapezohedron or tetragonal trisoctahedron; -- so called as being the form of the mineral leucite.