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Having the sepals separate from each other.

Situated behind the palate, or behind the palatine bones.

racter, importance, or degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers of a Government; the principal men of a state; the principal productions of a country; the principal arguments in a case. Wisdom is the principal thing. Prov. iv. 7.

ence, superiority; predominance; high, or the highest, station. Sir P. Sidney. Your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory. Jer. xiii. 18. The prerogative and principality above everything else. Jer. Taylor.

In a principal manner; primarily; above all; chiefly; mainly.

The quality of being principal.

Facial neuralgia.

Of or pertaining to the pterygoid processes and the palatine bones.

Of or pertaining to a pupa, or the condition of a pupa.

A pinnate-leaved palm (Raphia ruffia) native of Madagascar, and of considerable economic importance on account of the strong fiber (raffia) obtained from its leafstalks.

A mean wretch. [Obs.] Shak.

Applied to a line or verse in which each successive word has one more syllable than the preceding.

One of the marginal sensory bodies of medusæ belonging to the Discophora.

A division of Lepidoptera including all the butterflies. They differ from other Lepidoptera in having club-shaped antennæ.

See Rhopalic.

Of or pertaining to a satrap, or a satrapy.

See under Palmetto.

One of a family of beetles having the maxillary palpi terminating in a hatchet-shaped joint.

A variety of opal not possessing opalescence.

Having the anterior toes joined only part way down with a web; half-webbed; as, a semipalmate bird or foot. See Illust. k under Aves.