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To pierce through, as with a pointed weapon; to impale; as, to transfix one with a dart.

very common in the Silurian and Devonian periods, but became extinct at the close of the Paleozoic. So named from the three lobes usually seen on each segment.

turating, or reducing to a fine or impalpable powder by grinding, rubbing, bruising, etc. Paley.

Growing in tufts or clusters; tufty. The tufted crowtoe, and pale jessamine. Milton. Tufted trees and springing corn. Pope. Tufted duck (Zoöl.), the ring-necked duck. [Local, U.S.]

A fluoride of the cerium metals occurring in hexagonal crystals of a pale yellow color. Cf. Fluocerite.

The lower chaps or jaw. Paley.

gown worn under another, or under some other article of dress. An undergown and kirtle of pale sea-green silk. Sir W. Scott.

The lower jaw. Paley.

The lower or lowest side of anything. Paley.

Having no foundation; baseless; vain; idle; as, unfounded expectations. Paley.

Not mechanized. Paley.

; to waver. [A spheroid] is always liable to shift and vacillatefrom one axis to another. Paley.

on in the Northern United States and Canada. It is light tawny brown above. The breast is pale buff, thickly spotted with brown. Called also Wilson's thrush. Sometimes I hear the veery's clarion. Thoreau.

rated copper carbonates analogous to the minerals azurite and malachite. Verditer blue, a pale greenish blue color, like that of the pigment verditer.

The faintest and palest green.

Divided by pallets, or pales; paly. W. Berry.

ble. "He, not vincible in spirit . . . drew his sword." Hayward. "Vincible by human aid." Paley. Vincible ignorance (Theol.), ignorance within the individual's control and for which, therefore, he is responsible before God.

A pale yellow amorphous substance of alkaloidal nature and emetic properties, said to have been extracted from the root and foliage of the violet (Viola).

A genus of minute, pale-green, globular, organisms, about one fiftieth of an inch in diameter, found rolling through water, the motion being produced by minute colorless cilia. It has been considered as belonging to the flagellate Infusoria, but is now referred to the vegetable kingdom, and each globule is considered a…

Having a pale or sickly hue; languid of look; pale; pallid. "Sad to view, his visage pale and wan." Spenser. My color . . . [is] wan and of a leaden hue. Chaucer. Why so pale and wan, fond lover Suckling. With the wan moon overhead. Longfellow.