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One of the Tubulibranchiata.

A group of gastropod mollusks having a tubular shell. Vermetus is an example.

m opening into a larger one; especially, a recess to contain a bed; a lateral recess in a library.

Of or pertaining to Alexandria in Egypt; as, the Alexandrian library.

A Roman weight, answering to the libra or pound, equal to nearly eleven ounces Troy weight. It was divided into twelve ounces.

A building or an apartment where a library, periodicals, and newspapers are kept for use.

he equator intersected by the ecliptic, as the sun proceeds southward; the first point of Libra. -- ~= signs, the signs Libra, Scorpio, and Sagittarius, through which the sun passes between the ~ equinox and winter solstice.

The constellation Libra.

A librarian.

A library.

Belonging to a library. Byrom.

A librarian. [Obs.] Evelin.

A library. [Obs.] Bale.

Of or pertaining to Sir Thomas Bodley, or to the celebrated library at Oxford, founded by him in the sixteenth century.

A label, placed upon or in a book, showing its ownership or its position in a library.

That class of Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells; the Lamellibranchiata. See Mollusca.

The result of delibration, or of attention and examonation; matured opinion; a reflection; as, considerations on the choice of a profession.

or consisting of, controversy; disputatious; polemical; as, controversial divinity. Whole libraries of controversial books. Macaulay.

ge relative to the care and culture of the people; sociology in its broadest sense; -- in library cataloguing.

An order of lamellibranchiate mollusks having an anterior and posterior adductor muscle, as the common clam. See Bivalve.