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The study or science of the life of marine organisms. Agassiz.

The use of a word in a figurative or extended sense; ametaphor; a trope. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A change, as in the use of words; a metaphor.

Passed along; handed down; transmitted. Among biblical critics a tralatitious interpretation is one received by expositor from expositor. W. Withington.

, adv. In a tralatitious manner; metephorically. Holder.

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

An amorphous variety of manna obtained from the nests and cocoons of a Syrian coleopterous insect (Larinus maculatus, L. nidificans, etc.) which feeds on the foliage of a variety of thistle. It is used as an article of food, and is called also nest sugar.

The testing of a ledger to discover whether the debits and credits balance, by finding whether the sum of the personal credits increased by the difference between the debit and credit sums in the merchandise and other impersonal accounts equals the sum of personal debits. The equality would not show that the items were…

Pertaining to typhoid fever and malaria; as, typhomalarial fever, a form of fever having symptoms both of malarial and typhoid fever.

Not appealable; that can not be carried to a higher tribunal by appeal; as, an unappealable suit or action.

Not balanced; not in equipoise; having no counterpoise, or having insufficient counterpoise. Let Earth unbalanced from her orbit fly. Pope.

Not capable of being equaled or paralleled. [Obs.] Boyle.

Not salable; unmerchantable. -- n.

y that which hangs around a bedstead, from the bed to the floor. [Written also valence.] Valance of Venice gold in needlework. Shak.

Political servitude; dependence; subjection; slavery; as, the Greeks were held in vassalage by the Turks.

Victuals; food. [R.] "With my cargo of victualage." C. Bronté.

See Welaway. [Obs.]

Balanced or considered with reference to public weal. [Obs.] Shak.

To lash with stripes; to wale; to thrash; to drub. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.] Halliwell. Bartlett.

The oil of the mahwa tree.