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Having two ocelli (eyelike spots); -- said of a wing, etc.

A zinc-carbon cell in which the zinc (amalgamated) is surrounded by dilute sulphuric acid, and the carbon by nitric acid or a chromic acid mixture, the two plates being separated by a porous cup.

Cancellarean. [R.]

Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plant; latticelike.

Crossbarres; marked with cross lines. Grew.

The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.

An interwoven or latticed wall or inclosure; latticework, rails, or crossbars, as around the bar of a court of justice, between the chancel and the have of a church, or in a window.

Having a spongy or porous stracture; made up of cancelli; cancellated; as, the cancellous texture of parts of many bones.

Chancellorship. [Obs.] Gower.

A judicial court of chancery, which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction.

The office of a chancellor; the time during which one is chancellor.

A cellar or excavation used for refuge from a cyclone, or tornado. [Middle U. S.]

A handsome fish of Florida and the West Indies (Platyglossus radiatus). The name is applied also to the ladyfish (Harpe rufa) of the same region.

The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue. Consider first that great Or bright infers not excellence. Milton.

Excellence; virtue; dignity; worth; superiority. His excellency is over Israel. Ps. lxviii. 34. Extinguish in men the sense of their own excellency. Hooker.

Excelling; surpassing others in some good quality or the sum of qualities; of great worth; eminent, in a good sense; superior; as, an excellent man, artist, citizen, husband, discourse, book, song, etc.; excellent breeding, principles, aims, action. To love . . . What I see excellent in good or fair. Milton.…

In an excellent manner; well in a high degree.

intaining the duty of celibacy and poverty, and discountenancing oaths. Called also Fratricellians and Fraticelli.

A cell, of either sex, directly concerned in the production of a new organism.

Lying between cells or cellules; as, intercellular substance, space, or fluids; intercellular blood channels.