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Of or pertaining to an orchestra; suitable for, or performed in or by, an orchestra.

The arrangement of music for an orchestra; orchestral treatment of a composition; -- called also instrumentation.

See Orchestra.

Orchestral.

A large music box imitating a variety of orchestral instruments.

A stone for sharpening scythes; a whetstone.

The fruit of Trapa natans and Trapa bicornis, Old World water plants bearing edible nutlike fruits armed with several hard and sharp points; also, the plant itself; -- called also water caltrop.

also the fruit of this palm, the seeds of which are used as a remedy for diseases of the chest.

Relating to the abdomen and the thorax, or chest.

To turn from as ill-omened; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread; loathe; as, to abominate all impiety.

Manner of approaching or accosting; address. Chesterfield.

is commonly called an absent man is commonly either a very weak or a very affected man. Chesterfield.

s divides the bottom of the sea in describing its plants, animals, etc. It is the one furthest from the shore, embracing all beyond one hundred fathoms deep. Hence, abyssal animals, plants, etc.

A collegian. [R.] Chesterfield.

o my request. The treaty of Hanover in 1725 . . . to which the Dutch afterwards acceded. Chesterfield.

saints . . . do far surpass the most famous achievements of pagan heroes. Barrow. The highest achievements of the human intellect. Macaulay.

The top or highest point; the culmination. The very acme and pitch of life for epic poetry. Pope. The moment when a certain power reaches the acme of its supremacy. I. Taylor.

One who has received the highest of the four minor orders in the Catholic church, being ordained to carry the wine and water and the lights at the Mass.

A plant of the highest class of cryptograms, including the ferns, etc. See Cryptogamia. The Age of Acrogens (Geol.), the age of coal plants, or the carboniferous era.

Having qualities to excite wonder united with approbation; deserving the highest praise; most excellent; -- used of persons or things. "An admirable machine." "Admirable fortitude." Macaulay.