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the three orders of Fungi Imperfecti, including those with no asci nor pycnidia, but as a rule having the spores in cavities without special walls. They cause many of the plant diseases known as anthracnose.

rbs having a vanillalike odor; sweet clover; hart's clover. The blue melilot (Melilotus cærulea) is used in Switzerland to give color and flavor to sapsago cheese.

Menno Simons of Friesland, their founder. They believe that the New Testament is the only rule of faith, that there is no original sin, that infants should not be baptized, and that Christians ought not to take oath, hold office, or render military service.

That branch of applied geometry which gives rules for finding the length of lines, the areas of surfaces, or the volumes of solids, from certain simple data of lines and angles.

To divide, limit, or bound. [Obs.] Which meared her rule with Africa. Spenser.

According to rules or principles of metaphysics; as, metaphysical reasoning.

To find the quantity, dimensions, or capacity of, by any rule or standard; to measure.

ilitary superior. (b) An association of military persons under a bond of certain peculiar rules; especially, such an association of knights in the Middle Ages, or a body in modern times taking a similar form, membership of which confers some distinction. -- Military tenure, tenure of land, on condition of performing m…

officer of justice. [Obs.] I cry out the on the ministres, quod he, That shoulde keep and rule this cité. Chaucer.

Administration; rule; term in power; as, the ministry of Pitt.

The smaller number; -- opposed to Ant: majority; as, the minority must be ruled by the majority.

Female rule or dominion.

bisecting the angle of junction, as by the beveled ends of two pieces of molding or brass rule, etc. The term is used especially when the pieces form a right angle. See Miter, 2. -- Miter shell (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of marine univalve shells of the genus Mitra. -- Miter square (Carp.), a bevel with an…

The art of memory; a system of precepts and rules intended to assist the memory; artificial memory.

One who favors a form of government in which the unintelligent populace rules without restraint. Bayne.

A qualification involving the idea of variation or departure from some general rule or form, in the way of either restriction or enlargement, according to the circumstances of the case, as in the will of a donor, an agreement between parties, and the like. Bracton.

A sole or supreme ruler; a sovereign; the highest ruler; an emperor, king, queen, prince, or chief. He who reigns Monarch in heaven, ... upheld by old repute. Milton.

To rule; to govern. [R.]

A system of government in which the chief ruler is a monarch. In those days he had affected zeal for monarchy. Macaulay.

Of or pertaining to monasteries, or to their occupants, rules, etc., as, monastic institutions or rules.