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The state of being supernatural; belief in supernatural agency or revelation; supernaturalism.

A supernaturalist.

Of or pertaining to supernaturalism; supernaturalistic.

A gateway, commonly of wood, but sometimes of stone, consisting of two upright pillars carrying one to three transverse lintels. It is often minutely carved with symbolic sculpture, and serves as a monumental approach to a Buddhist temple.

The act of swimming over. [Obs.] Bailey.

A salt of uranic acid.

The palace of the Moorish kings at Granada.

to denote a collection of notable sayings, literary gossip, anecdotes, etc. Thus, Scaligerana is a book containing the sayings of Scaliger, Johnsoniana of Johnson, etc.

to save them from it, to become an anathema, and be destroyed himself. Locke. Anathema Maranatha Etym: (see 1 Cor. xvi. 22), an expression commonly considered as a highly intensified form of anathema. Maran atha is now considered as a separate sentence, meaning, "Our Lord cometh."

A species of Hirneola (H. auricula), a membranaceous fungus, called also auricula Judæ, or Jew's-ear. P. Cyc.

The pomegranate tree (Punica granatum). The bark of the root, the rind of the fruit, and the flowers are used medicinally.

A distended, membranaceous pericarp.

A very large species of frog (Rana Catesbiana), found in North America; -- so named from its loud bellowing in spring.

fee. It is identical with the alkaloid theine from tea leaves, and with guaranine from guarana.

To occur at the same time; to be contemporaneous; as, the fall of Granada coincided with the discovery of America.

A loft for corn; a granary.

See Coranach.

rk brown substance of vegetable origin, allied to curare, and used by the natives of New Granada as an arrow poison.

A membranaceous or calcareous septum with which some mollusks close the aperture of the shell during the time of hibernation, or æstivation.

1. (Zoöl.) An amphibious animal of the genus Rana and related genera, of many species. Frogs swim rapidly, and take long leaps on land. Many of the species utter loud notes in the springtime.