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The middle pair of tail feathers, or middle rectrices.

A descendant of Ishmael (the son of Abraham and Hagar), of whom it was said, "His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him." Gen. xvi. 12.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an Ishmaelite or the Ishmaelites.

One of a sect of Mohammedans who favored the pretensions of the family of Mohammed ben Ismael, of the house Ali.

A descendant of Israel, or Jacob; a Hebrew; a Jew.

Of or pertaining to Israel, or to the Israelites; Jewish; Hebrew.

A bulbous plant (Amaryllis, or Sprekelia, formosissima) from Mexico. It bears a single, large, deep, red, lilylike flower. [Written also Jacobean.]

See Jager.

Kinesodic.

The perception attendant upon the movements of the muscles. Bastian.

Of, pertaining to, or involving, kinæsthesis.

A Celtic monument, commonly known as a dolmen.

Of or pertaining to Lacedæmon or Sparta, the chief city of Laconia in the Peloponnesus. -- n.

A rich, sweet, red Neapolitan wine.

A genus of huge, carnivorous, dinosaurian reptiles from the Cretaceous formation of the United States. They had very large hind legs and tail, and are supposed to have been bipedal. Some of the species were about eighteen feet high.

See Lammergeir.

One of the Læmodipoda.

A division of amphipod Crustacea, in which the abdomen is small or rudimentary and the legs are often reduced to five pairs. The whale louse, or Cyamus, and Caprella are examples.

Of or pertaining to the Læmodipoda.

. The fourth Sunday of Lent; -- so named from the Latin word Lætare (rejoice), the first word in the antiphone of the introit sung that day in the Roman Catholic service.