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The part of a polariscope which receives the light after polarization, and exhibits its properties.

e animal of tropical America (the Tamanoir), living on ants. It belongs to the genus Myrmecophaga.

A microscopic, bacterial organism (Bacillus anthracis), resembling transparent rods. [See Illust. under Bacillus.]

A copy or transcript.

The diameter of the exposed part of the object glass of a telescope or other optical instrument; as, a telescope of four-inch aperture.

nd it is by taking advantage of this fact that the best aplanatic object glasses of microscopes are constructed.

k preposition. It usually signifies from, away from, off, or asunder, separate; as, in apocope (a cutting off), apostate, apostle (one sent away), apocarpous.

A copy or transcript. Blount.

Relating to the casting of horoscopes. [Archaic] Whewell.

d remarkable for resemblances to the larvæ of other Tunicata. It is the type of the order Copelata or Larvalia. See Illustration in Appendix.

To come near to; to approach. The telescope approximates perfection. J. Morse.

Containing copses of trees or shrubs; covered with shrubs. Bartram.

superintends the conduct of the suffragan bishops in his province, and also exercises episcopal authority in his own diocese.

or office of an archbishop; the see or province over which archbishop exercises archiepiscopal authority.

A prefix signifying chief, arch; as, architect, archiepiscopal. In Biol. and Anat. it usually means primitive, original, ancestral; as, archipterygium, the primitive fin or wing.

Extent; scope; range; as, a wide area of thought. The largest area of human history and man's common nature. F. Harrison. Dry area. See under Dry.

An alloy of nicked with copper and zinc; German silver.

A genus of copepod Crustacea, parasitic of fishes; a fish louse. See Branchiura.

A Roman copper coin, originally of a pound weight (12 oz.); but reduced, after the first Punic war, to two ounces; in the second Punic war, to one ounce; and afterwards to half an ounce.

The horoscope, or that degree of the ecliptic which rises above the horizon at the moment of one's birth; supposed to have a commanding influence on a person's life and fortune.