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Pertaining to the ship Argo. See Argo.

Of or pertaining to the patriotic Jewish family to which the Maccabees belonged; Maccabean; as, the Asmonean dynasty. [Written also Asmonæan.]

One of a body of devoted Jews who opposed the Hellenistic Jews, and supported the Asmoneans.

Pertaining to the genus Astræa or the family Astræidæ. -- n.

aining to the isle Atlantis, which the ancients allege was sunk, and overwhelmed by the ocean.

pertaining to Augeus, king of Elis, whose stable contained 3000 oxen, and had not been cleaned for 30 years. Hercules cleansed it in a single day.

Vengeance. [Obs.]

The popular name of other vegetable seeds or fruits, more or less resembling true beans. Bean aphis (Zoöl.), a plant louse (Aphis fabæ) which infests the bean plant. -- Bean fly (Zoöl.), a fly found on bean flowers. -- Bean goose (Zoöl.), a species of goose (Anser segetum). -- Bean weevil (Zoöl.), a small weevil tha…

A deciduous plant of warm climates, generally with fleshy leaves and flowers of a yellow or whitish yellow color, of the genus Zygophyllum.

A leguminous shrub of southern Europe, with trifoliate leaves (Anagyris foetida).

The black and white standard of the Knights Templars.

To make mean; to lower. C. Reade.

Of or pertaining to Napoleon Bonaparte or his family.

Pertaining to, or resembling, Briareus, a giant fabled to have a hundred hands; hence, hundred-handed or many-handed.

d intensely bitter leaves, sometimes used in medicine; marsh trefoil; -- called also bog bean.

,n.One of the Cabiri.

was said to have introduced into Greece the sixteen simple letters of the alphabet -- Cadmean letters. Cadmean victory, a victory that damages the victors as much as the vanquished; probably referring to the battle in which the soldiers who sprang from the dragon's teeth sown by Cadmus slew each other.…

Of or belonging to Mercury's caduceus, or wand.

Of or pertaining to Cæsar or the Cæsars; imperial. Cæsarean section (Surg.), the operation of taking a child from the womb by cutting through the walls of the abdomen and uterus; -- so called because Julius Cæsar is reported to have been brought into the world by such an operation.

Cancellarean. [R.]