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Having all four toes united by a web;-said of certain sea birds, as the pelican and the gannet. See Illust. under Aves.

A division of swimming birds including those that have totipalmate feet.

Situated beyond or outside the palatine bone; -- said of a bone in the skull of some reptiles.

A palmitate derived from three molecules of palmitic acid.

See Palmitin.

Relating to a type or types; belonging to types; serving as a type; typical. Owen.

Not appalled; not frightened; dauntless; undaunted. Milton.

Destitute of a palp.

A West Indian palm; also the fruit of this palm, the seeds of which are used as a remedy for diseases of the chest.

One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form.

continuance; compliance (with). The Christians had no longer abidance in the holy hill of Palestine. Fuller. A judicious abidance by rules. Helps.

r arbitrary government; despotism. The element of absolutism and prelacy was controlling. Palfrey.

A native of Acadie. Acadian epoch (Geol.), an epoch at the beginning of the American paleozoic time, and including the oldest American rocks known to be fossiliferous. See Geology. -- Acadian owl (Zoöl.), a small North American owl (Nyctule Acadica); the saw-whet.

aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music.

given right line, cuts the perspective plane; so called to distinguish it from the principal point, or point of view, where a line drawn from the eye perpendicular to the perspective plane meets this plane. -- Accidental lights (Paint.), secondary lights; effects of light other than ordinary daylight, such as the ray…

ations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations. Paley.

at attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry. Specifically: (Mus.)

An associate in the commission of a crime; a participator in an offense, whether a principal or an accessory. "And thou, the cursed accomplice of his treason." Johnson.

Accordance. [R.] Paley.

e, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money lent. "Interest accrues to principal." Abbott. The great and essential advantages accruing to society from the freedom of the press. Junius.