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A membranous appendage of the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles, -- in mammals serving to connect the fetus with the parent; the urinary vesicle.

Flying high. [Obs.] Blount.

Walking; moving from place to place. Gayton.

Without, or not developing, an allantois.

The division of Vertebrata in which no allantois is developed. It includes amphibians, fishes, and lower forms.

Want of love to mankind; -- the opposite of philanthropy. Coxe.

An appellant. [Obs.] Shak.

Relating to an appeal; appellate. "An appellant jurisdiction." Hallam. Party appellant (Law), the party who appeals; appellant; -- opposed to respondent, or appellee. Tomlins.

The five united jaws and accessory ossicles of certain sea urchins.

Toward one side; in a slanting direction; obliquely. [The shaft] drove through his neck aslant. Dryden.

One who, or that which, assails, attacks, or assaults; an assailer. An assailant of the church. Macaulay.

A genus of small glassy heteropod mollusks found swimming at the surface in mid ocean. See Heteropod.

Relating to the atlas.

Of or pertaining to the isle Atlantis, which the ancients allege was sunk, and overwhelmed by the ocean.

Figures or half figures of men, used as columns to support an entablature; -- called also telamones. See Caryatides. Oxf. Gloss.

ocean which lies between Europe and Africa on the east and America on the west; as, the Atlantic Ocean (called also the Atlantic); the Atlantic basin; the Atlantic telegraph.

The Pleiades or seven stars, fabled to have been the daughters of Atlas.

Prepared for battle; combatant; warlike. Spenser. -- n.

In a gay, showy, and sparkling style.

Pertaining to, or used in, papal bulls. Fry. Bullantic letters, Gothic letters used in papal bulls.