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A Linnæan order of plants having twelve styles.

Of or pertaining to the Dodecagynia; having twelve styles.

To confine in a cage; to coop up. Shak.

A plane figure of eleven sides and angles.

Having eleven pistils; as, an endecagynous flower.

A plane figure of eleven sides and eleven angles. [Written also endecagon.]

To confine in, or as in, a cage; to coop up. [Written also encage.] "Incaged birds." Shak.

Confinement in, or as in, cage. [Obs.] Shelton.

Native sulphate of ammonia, found in volcanic districts; -- so named from Mascagni, who discovered it.

The laughing falcon. See under laughing.

An old Italian or Spanish dance tune, in slow three-four measure, with divisions on a ground bass, resembling a chaconne.

Money paid at fairs for leave to break ground for booths. Ainsworth.

A plane figure with fifteen angles, and consequently fifteen sides.

A reddish variety of limestone.

An imitation of any veined and ornamental stone, as marble, formed by a substratum of finely ground gypsum mixed with glue, the surface of which, while soft, is variegated with splinters of marble, spar, granite, etc., and subsequently colored and polished.

the obligations were uncertain. The service must be certain, in order to be denominated socage, as to hold by fealty and twenty shillings rent. [Written also soccage.]

A tennant by socage; a socman.

To loose, or release, from, or as from, a cage.

A figure having eleven angles and eleven sides.

The lucern (Medicago sativa); -- so called in California, Texas, etc.