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Of or pertaining to the throat or neck; as, the jugular vein.

See Commandery, n., 3, and also Templar, n., 1 and 3.

Of or pertaining to the Kolarians.

Flat and thin; lamelliform; composed of lamellæ. -- Lam"el*lar*ly, adv.

Of or pertaining to lamella or to lamellæ; lamellar.

Lanceolate.

Resembling a lentil in size or form; having the form of a double-convex lens.

In the manner of a lens; with a curve.

Like a lobule; pertaining to a lobule or lobules.

ing to the cell or compartment of an ovary, etc.; in composition, having cells; as trilocular. Gray.

The peculiar larva of Polygordius. See Polygordius.

One of the followers of Wyclif in England. [Called also Loller.] By Lollards all know the Wyclifities are meant, so called from Walter Lollardus, one of their teachers in Germany. Fuller.

The doctrines or principles of the Lollards.

from the united action, or pertaining to the mutual relations, of the sun and moon. Lunisolar precession (Astron.), that portion of the annual precession of the equinoxes which depends on the joint action of the sun and moon. -- Lunisolar year, a period of time, at the end of which, in the Julian calendar, the new and…

Having a form like that of the new moon; shaped like a crescent.

Of or pertaining to the region of the cheek bone, or to the malar bone; jugal.

Air infected with some noxious substance capable of engendering disease; esp., an unhealthy exhalation from certain soils, as marshy or wet lands, producing fevers; miasma.

ich see) and when transferred to the blood of man, by the bite of the mosquito, produce malaria. The young parasites, or sporozoites, enter the red blood corpuscles, growing at their expense, undergoing sporulation, and finally destroying the corpuscles, thus liberating in the blood plasma an immense number of small sp…

Of or pertaining, to or infected by, malaria. Malarial fever (Med.), a fever produced by malaria, and characterized by the occurrence of chills, fever, and sweating in distinct paroxysms, At intervals of definite and often uniform duration, in which these symptoms are wholly absent (intermittent fever), or only partial…

A large wild duck (Anas boschas) inhabiting both America and Europe. The domestic duck has descended from this species. Called also greenhead.