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offices of bishop, priest, and deacon as the three necessary degrees of orders, venerates relics and icons, and has an elaborate ritual.

ish as something sacred; as, to enshrine something in memory. We will enshrine it as holy relic. Massinger.

A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime.

Any small windowlike opening or recess, esp. one to show the relics within an altar, or the like.

A portable bier or shrine, variously adorned, used for containing relics of saints. Mollett.

Relics of neolithic man found on the coast of Denmark, consisting of shell mounds, some of which are ten feet high, one thousand feet long, and two hundred feet wide. The name is applied also to similar mounds found on the American coast from Canada to Florida, made by the North American Indians.

Things left; remnants; relics.

One who keeps and shows church relics.

emains in stone. The Neolithic era includes the latter half of the "Stone age;" the human relics which belong to it are associated with the remains of animals not yet extinct. The kitchen middens of Denmark, the lake dwellings of Switzerland, and the stockaded islands, or "crannogs," of the British Isles, belong to thi…

A relic of the Paleolithic era.

e "Stone Age;" the remains belonging to it are for the most part of extinct animals, with relics of human beings.

Nearly annular; having nearly the form of a ring. "Penannular relics." D. Wilson.

Among the primitive Christians, a case in which the relics of the dead were inclosed.

One who makes it his business to seek after relics and carry them about for sale.

Relic. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A depositary, often a small box or casket, in which relics are kept.

See Relic. Chaucer.

Remains of the dead; organic remains; relics.

Of or pertaining to a relic or relics; of the nature of a relic. [R.]

That which is left; relic; remainder; -- chiefly in the plural. "The remains of old Rome." Addison. When this remain of horror has entirely subsided. Burke.