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Like a lirella. [Written also lirellæform.]

Pertaining to, or designating, a crystalline, organic acid, resembling cholic acid, found in the biliary intestinal concretions (bezoar stones) common in certain species of antelope.

Divided into secondary compartments or cells, as where one cavity is separated into several smaller ones.

The European cricket warbler.

A tin-white arsenide of iron, isomorphous with arsenopyrite.

A bell used in fowling at night, to frighten birds, and, with a sudden light, to make them fly into a net. The fowler's lowbell robs the lark of sleep. King.

A grayish brown limestone, containing fossil shells, which reflect a beautiful play of colors. It is also called fire marble, from its fiery reflections.

A large, pearly, spiral, marine shell (Turbo margaritaceus), from the Pacific Islands. It is used as an ornament.

A marine food fish (Sciæna chrysura), of the Southern United States; -- called also yellowtail, and silver perch.

Of or pertaining to, or named from, Magellan, the navigator. Magellenic clouds (Astron.), three conspicuous nebulæ near the south pole, resembling thin white clouds.

A chiton.

ther bivalves. They have a large posterior sucker, like that of a leech. See Illust. of Bdellomorpha.

A killer of men; a manslayer. [Obs.] Carew.

A silk or woolen vestment without sleeves worn by cardinals, bishops, abbots, and the prelates of the Roman court. It has a low collar, is fastened in front, and reaches almost to the knees.

A genus of small, polished, marine univalve shells, native of all warm seas.

A building of masonry, generally circular, usually erected on the seacoast, with a gun on the summit mounted on a traversing platform, so as to be fired in any direction.

Any spiral marine shell of the genus Persona, having a curiously twisted aperture.

To mix; to meddle. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A mellitate. [R.]

A mêlée; a conflict. Tennyson.