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Having but one cilium.

of being reconciled; reconcilenment; restoration to harmony; renewal of friendship. Reconciliation and friendship with God really form the basis of all rational and true enjoyment. S. Miller.

Serving or tending to reconcile. Bp. Hall.

Of or pertaining to Sicily or its inhabitants. Sicilian vespers, the great massacre of the French in Sicily, in the year 1282, on the evening of Easter Monday, at the hour of vespers.

A Sicilian dance, resembling the pastorale, set to a rather slow and graceful melody in 12-8 or 6-8 measure; also, the music to the dance.

Having a distinct streak of color above the eyes; as, the superciliary woodpecker.

Superciliary.

An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement. "To come to terms of accommodation." Macaulay.

A peculiar larval form of Phoronis, a genus of marine worms, having a circle of ciliated tentacles.

A kind of annelid larva having both a dorsal and a ventral circle of special cilia.

bring, make, or set, at one, i. e., to be or bring in or to a state of agreement or reconciliation. If gentil men, or othere of hir contree Were wrothe, she wolde bringen hem atoon. Chaucer.

A kind of chætopod larva in which no circles of cilia are developed.

ain starfishes, having a bilateral structure, and swimming by means of bands of vibrating cilia.

A small South American deer, of several species (Coassus superciliaris, C. rufus, and C. auritus).

e type. They exist both in a myxopod state, with branched pseudopodia, and in the form of ciliated bodies united in free, spherical colonies.

A kind of annelid larva with a circle of cilia around the head.

Having the form of cilia; very fine or slender.

Moving by means of cilia, or cilialike organs; as, the ciliograde Medusæ.

See Cilia.

press. A strict and definitive truth. Sir T. Browne. Some definitive . . . scheme of reconciliation. Prescott.