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Stoppage of the mences.

Same as Menostasis.

A composition consisting of one verse only.

Arranged in a single row on one side of an axis, as the flowers in grasses of the tribe Chloridæ.

A metrical composition consisting of a single strophe.

Having one strophe only; not varied in measure; written in unvaried measure. Milton.

A line with a row of hooks and bead Paternoster pump, Paternoster wheel, a chain pump; a noria. -- Paternoster while, the space of time required for repeating a paternoster. Udall.

A prognostic; an omen. [Obs.] Gower.

ting something future by signs or symptoms; foreshowing; aiding in prognosis; as, the prognostic symptoms of a disease; prognostic signs.

Capable of being prognosticated or foretold. Sir T. Browne.

ure; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil. Burke. I neither will nor can prognosticate To the young gaping heir his father's fate. Dryden.

The act of foreshowing or foretelling something future by present signs; prediction.

One who prognosticates; a foreknower or foreteller of a future course or event by present signs. Isa. xlvii. 13.

A pycnostyle colonnade.

pertaining to the characters of minerals when examined before the blowpipe; as, the pyrognostic characters of galena.

The characters of a mineral observed by the use of the blowpipe, as the degree of fusibility, flame coloration, etc.

An artificial division of gastropods including those that have siphonostomatous shells.

Pertaining to the Siphonostomata.

Any parasitic entomostracan of the tribe Siphonostomata.

A tribe of lophobranch fishes having a tubular snout. The female carries the eggs in a ventral pouch.