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Figurative; symbolical.

, and for its lightness, pertaining a specific gravity of about 2.6. Atomic weight 27.08. Symbol Al. Aluminium bronze or gold, a pale gold- colored alloy of aluminium and copper, used for journal bearings, etc.

A tau cross with a loop at the top, used as an attribute or sacred emblem, symbolizing generation or enduring life. Called also crux ansata.

chemical relations belonging to the class of nonmetallic substances. Atomic weight, 120. Symbol, Sb.

hat of which the type pattern or representation; that which is represented by the type or symbol.

hich belongs or appertains to another thing; an appurtenance. Mysterious appurtenants and symbols of redemption. Coleridge.

nt and its compounds are active poisons. Specific gravity from 5.7 to 5.9. Atomic weight. Symbol As.

Loss of power to express, or to understand, symbols or signs of thought.

A conventional symbol of office, character, or identity, added to any particular figure; as, a club is the attribute of Hercules.

An idol or symbolical figure which the Templars were accused of using in their mysterious rites.

Symbol, Ba. Its oxide called baryta. [Rarely written barytum.]

To signify; to represent or symbolize; to answer to. The field is the world. Matt. xiii. 38. The seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches. Rev. i. 20.

state, and as a constituent of some minerals. Specific gravity 9.8. Atomic weight 207.5. Symbol Bi.

The real, as opposed to the symbolical; the substance, as opposed to the shadow. Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. Col. ii. 17.

ture also in boracite, datolite, tourmaline, and some other minerals. Atomic weight 10.9. Symbol B.

e elements, related in its chemical qualities to chlorine and iodine. Atomic weight 79.8. Symbol Br. It is a deep reddish brown liquid of a very disagreeable odor, emitting a brownish vapor at the ordinary temperature. In combination it is found in minute quantities in sea water, and in many saline springs. It occurs a…

The figure of a bull moose used as the party symbol of the Progressive party in the presidential campaign of 1912. -- Bull Mooser. [Cant]

to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself. If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 't is true that a good play needs no epilogue. Shak.

elevation to the stature; -- worn by tragic actors in ancient Greece and Rome. Used as a symbol of tragedy, or the tragic drama, as distinguished from comedy. Great Fletcher never treads in buskins here, No greater Jonson dares in socks appear. Dryden.

o zinc, and occurring in some zinc ores. It is a white metal, both ductile and malleable. Symbol Cd. Atomic weight 111.8. It was discovered by Stromeyer in 1817, who named it from its association with zinc or zinc ore. Cadmium yellow, a compound of cadmium and sulphur, of an intense yellow color, used as a pigment.…