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One of the three monastic vows. Shipley.

ts or religious women who have offered themselves to the service of the church. There are three such associations of priests, and one of women, called oblates.

A small silver coin of Athens, the sixth part of a drachma, about three cents in value.

The whole body of salt water which covers more than three fifths of the surface of the globe; -- called also the sea, or great sea. Like the odor of brine from the ocean Comes the thought of other years. Longfellow.

One of the eight parts into which a space is divided by three coördinate planes.

The state of being odd, or not even. Take but one from three, and you not only destroy the oddness, but also the essence of that number. Fotherby.

ving the jaws armed with teeth, as in most other vertebrates. They have been divided into three orders: Odontolcæ, Odontotormæ, and Saururæ.

ection; as, to offer a present, or a bribe; to offer one's self in marriage. I offer thee three things. 2 Sam. xxiv. 12.

lid fats, especially at 30-40° C. Chemically, olein is a glyceride of oleic acid; and, as three molecules of the acid are united to one molecule of glyceryl to form the fat, it is technically known as triolein. It is also called elain.

A game at cards, borrowed from the Spaniards, and usually played by three persons. Pope. When ombre calls, his hand and heart are free, And, joined to two, he fails not to make three. Young.

Occupied with; in the performance of; as, only three officers are on duty; on a journey.

in the orchestra and in military bands, having a loud tone, deep pitch, and a compass of three octaves; -- now generally supplanted by bass and contrabass tubas. Moore (Encyc. of Music).

The inferior and posterior of the three elements forming the periotic bone.

ly perennial herbs having the stamens and pistils united in a single column, and normally three petals and three sepals, all adherent to the ovary. The flowers are curiously shaped, often resembling insects, the odd or lower petal (called the lip) being unlike the others, and sometimes of a strange and unexpected appea…

of the ranks with a distance of about half a pace between them; with a distance of about three yards the ranks are in Ant: open order. -- The four Orders, The Orders four, the four orders of mendicant friars. See Friar. Chaucer. -- General orders (Mil.), orders issued which concern the whole command, or the troops g…

eristics in the skeleton, esp. in the pelvis and hind legs, which in some genera had only three functional toes, and supported the body in walking as in Iguanodon. See Illust. in Appendix.

A genus of American Eocene mammals allied to the horse, but having four toes in front and three behind.

That point in which the three perpendiculars let fall from the angles of a triangle upon the opposite sides, or the sides produced, mutually intersect.

Noting the system of crystallization which has three unequal axes at right angles to each other; trimetric. See Crystallization.

Cutting at right angles. Orthotomic circle (Geom.), that circle which cuts three given circles at right angles.