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Of or pertaining to the Malacozoa.

Resembling marl; partaking of the qualities of marl.

An excitant containing opium, much used by the Turks. Dunglison.

An earthy black oxide of copper, arising from the decomposition of other ores.

Defective flow or vitiated condition of the milk.

To put in a wrong place; to set or place on an improper or unworthy object; as, he misplaced his confidence.

The act of misplacing, or the state of being misplaced.

Connected with the lachrymal apparatus and the nose; as, the nasolachrymal, or lachrymal duct.

A string of beads, etc., or any continuous band or chain, worn around the neck as an ornament.

Wearing a necklace; marked as with a necklace. The hooded and the necklaced snake. Sir W. Jones.

they lose their earthy material, and become soft, flexible, and distorted. Also called malacia.

Same as Eulachon.

Loosely, any unusually magnificent or stately house. Palace car. See under Car. -- Palace court, a court having jurisdiction of personal actions arising within twelve miles of the palace at Whitehall. The court was abolished in 1849. [Eng.] Mozley & W.

Palatial. [Obs.] Graunt.

Designating an acid called paralactic acid. See Lactic acid, under Lactic.

Of or pertaining to a parallax.

Resembling pearl or mother-of-pearl; pearly in quality or appearance.

A porpoise.

A division of alcyonoid corals, including the seapens and related kinds. They are able to move about by means of the hollow muscular peduncle, which also serves to support them upright in the mud. See Pennatula, and Illust. under Alcyonaria.

Latticed. See Lattice, n., 2.