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The girdle of a Jewish priest or officer.

A group of suctorial Infusoria, which in the adult stage are stationary. See Suctoria.

Resembling the Acinetæ.

The science of gliding and soaring flight.

Reproducing or produced without sexual union. -- Ag`a*mo*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv. All known agamogenetic processes end in a complete return to the primitive stock. Huxley.

A boraginaceous herb (Alkanna tinctoria) yielding the dye; orchanet.

The herb dill, or dillseed.

A substance obtained from the volatile oils of anise, fennel, etc., in the form of soft shining scales; -- called also anise camphor. Watts.

Soothing.

An antisplenetic medicine.

Relating to autogenesis; self-generated.

A system of natural drainage developed by the constituent streams through headwater erosion.

A system of land forms produced by the free action of rain and streams on rocks of uniform texture.

Self-moving; moving automatically.

In fire-alarm telegraphy, a system so arranged that when one alarm is being transmitted, no other alarm, sent in from another point, will be transmitted until after the first alarm has been disposed of.

A bag-shaped net for catching fish.

except those of the Garter. It is the lowest degree of honor that is hereditary. The baronets are commoners.

State or rank of a baronet.

The rank or patent of a baronet.

A light helmet, at first open, but later made with a visor. [Written also basinet, bassinet, basnet.]