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The symmetry of a metameric structure; serial symmetry; the state of being made up of metameres.

Having the parts in eights; as, an octamerous flower; octamerous mesenteries in polyps.

A verse containing eight feet; as, -- Deep'' in|to'' the | dark''ness | peer''ing, | long'' I | stood'' there | wond'''ring, | fear''ing. Poe.

An extensive division of Coleoptera, including those that normally have five-jointed tarsi. It embraces about half of all the known species of the Coleoptera.

One of the Pentamera.

five parts in each set, as a flower with five sepals, five petals, five, or twice five, stamens, and five pistils.

A genus of extinct Paleozoic brachiopods, often very abundant in the Upper Silurian. Pentamerus limestone (Geol.), a Silurian limestone composed largely of the shells of Pentamerus.

A verse of five feet.

A hypothetical hydrocarbon, C5H10, metameric with the amylenes, and the nucleus of a large number of derivatives; -- so named because regarded as composed of five methylene residues. Cf. Trimethylene, and Tetramethylene.

In singing, or in the use of the bow, a gradual carrying or lifting of the voice or sound very smoothly from one note to another; a gliding from tone to tone.

The shell of a nut; the stone of a drupe fruit. See Endocarp.

Things thrown out or away; especially, things excreted by a living organism. J. Fleming.

A thread; especially, a warp thread.

Furnished with stamens.

f the sacred Scriptures, in which the covenants are respectively revealed; as, the Old Testament; the New Testament; -- often limited, in colloquial language, to the latter. He is the mediator of the new testament . . . for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament. Heb. ix. 15. Holograph…

Of or pertaining to a testament; testamentary. Thy testamental cup I take, And thus remember thee. J. Montgomery.

Of or pertaining to a will, or testament; as, letters testamentary.

The act or power of giving by testament, or will. [R.] Burke.

To make a will. [Obs.] Fuller.

An instrument for measuring the voltaic electricity passing through it, by its effect in decomposing water or some other chemical compound acting as an electrolyte.