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Like a bed; -- applied to several processes on the inner side of the sphenoid bone.

of the monoclinic system which is parallel to the vertical and the inclined lateral (clinidiagonal) axes.

Of or pertaining to the Herring family.

er; -- applied to a group of flattened sea urchins, with a rosette of pores on the upper side.

One of the peculiar stinging, cells found in Coelenterata; a nematocyst; a lasso cell.

ata, i.e., exclusive of the sponges. They are so named from presence of stinging cells (cnidae) in the tissues. See Coelenterata.

One of the cells which, in the Coelenterata, develop into cnidæ.

The fine filiform process of a cnidoblast.

o equal triangles, when placed one on the other. If the equator and the ecliptic had coincided, it would have rendered the annual revoluton of the earth useless. Cheyne.

The condition of occupying the same place in space; as, the coincidence of circles, surfaces, etc. Bentley.

Coincidence. [R.]

Having coincidence; occupying the same place; contemporaneous; concurrent; -- followed by with. Christianity teaches nothing but what is perfectly suitable to, and coincident with, the ruling principles of a virtuous and well- inclined man. South.

Coincident.

With coincidence.

One who coincides with another in an opinion.

Pertaining to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, or to his poetry or metaphysics.

strike or dash against each other; to come into collision; to clash; as, the vessels collided; their interests collided. Across this space the attraction urges them. They collide, they recoil, they oscillate. Tyndall. No longer rocking and swaying, but clashing and colliding. Carlyle.

One of a class of organic bases, C8H11N, usually pungent oily liquids, belonging to the pyridine series, and obtained from bone oil, coal tar, naphtha, and certain alkaloids.

Resembling glue or jelly; characterized by a jellylike appearance; gelatinous; as, colloid tumors.

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, colloids.