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A large food fish (Diagramma lineatum), native of the East Indies.

A native or inhabitant of Canada. Canadian period (Geol.), A subdivision of the American Lower Silurian system embracing the calciferous, Quebec, and Chazy epochs. This period immediately follows the primordial or Cambrian period, and is by many geologists regarded as the beginning of the Silurian age, See the Diagram,…

One of a tropical family of snakelike lizards (Chalcidæ), having four small or rudimentary legs.

About, or near, the meridian.

A joint guardian.

An actor or player in comedy. "The famous comedian, Roscius." Middleton.

One who has care or custody, as of some public building; a keeper or superintendent.

Office or duty of a custodian.

Same as 2d and 3d Cycloid.

A microscopic plant of the family Desmidiæ, a group of unicellular algæ in which the species have a greenish color, and the cells generally appear as if they consisted of two coalescing halves.

Of or pertaining to the Dravida. Dravidian languages, a group of languages of Southern India, which seem to have been the idioms of the natives, before the invasion of tribes speaking Sanskrit. Of these languages, the Tamil is the most important.

Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n.

One of a tribe of tortoises, including the terrapins, etc., in which the head and neck can be withdrawn.

Embracing the whole circle of learning, or a wide range of subjects.

Epicedial. -- n.

Related to Euclid, or to the geometry of Euclid. Euclidian space (Geom.), the kind of space to which the axioms and definitions of Euclid, relative to straight lines and parallel lines, apply; -- called also flat space, and homaloidal space.

Of or pertaining to Publius Falcidius, a Roman tribune. Falcidian law (Civil Law), a law by which a testator was obliged to leave at least a fourth of his estate to the heir. Burrill.

Ganoid.

A vessel of Anam, with two or three masts, lofty triangular sails, and in construction somewhat resembling a Chinese junk.

ing of Phrygia, or to a knot tied by him; hence, intricate; complicated; inextricable. Gordian knot, an intricate knot tied by Gordius in the thong which connected the pole of the chariot with the yoke. An oracle having declared that he who should untie it should be master of Asia, Alexander the Great averted the ill o…