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c., or into figures, as of men, or other things; hence, the art of producing figures and groups, whether in plastic or hard materials.

A division of a genus; a group of species separated by some distinction from others of the same genus; -- often indicated by the sign §.

A nonmetallic element of the sulphur group, and analogous to sulphur in its compounds. It is found in small quantities with sulphur and some sulphur ores, and obtained in the free state as a dark reddish powder or crystalline mass, or as a dark metallic- looking substance. It exhibits under the action of light a remark…

A group of students engaged, under the guidance of an instructor, in original research in a particular line of study, and in the exposition of the results by theses, lectures, etc.; -- called also seminary.

A carbohydrate of the glucose group found in the thickened endosperm of certain seeds, and extracted as yellow sirup having a sweetish-bitter taste.

and related races. [Written also Shemitic.] Semitic language, a name used to designate a group of Asiatic and African languages, some living and some dead, namely: Hebrew and Phoenician, Aramaic, Assyrian, Arabic, Ethiopic (Geez and Ampharic). Encyc. Brit.

A group of seven notes to be played in the time of four or six.

Any comprehensive group of animals or plants including several subordinate related groups.

ersons associated by custom, office, common opinion, quality, or the like; a division; a group; a clique. "Others of our set." Tennyson. This falls into different divisions, or sets, of nations connected under particular religions. R. P. Ward.

One of the groups founded on this distinction. The sex, the female sex; women, in general.

A double triplet; a group of six equal notes played in the time of four.

A group of stars in the constellation Leo. See Illust. of Leo. Sickle pod (Bot.), a kind of rock cress (Arabis Canadensis) having very long curved pods.

ch water enters the gill cavity. The shell itself is not always siphonostomatous in this group.

nterest, as of persons in a dramatic scene. There's situation for you! there's an heroic group! Sheridan.

The group of allied languages spoken by the Slavs.

To lump; to throw into a mess. These different groups . . . are exclusively slumped together under that sense. Sir W. Hamilton.

Naturally growing in groups or masses; -- said of many individual plants of the same species.

A common metallic element of the alkali group, in nature always occuring combined, as in common salt, in albite, etc. It is isolated as a soft, waxy, white, unstable metal, so readily oxidized that it combines violently with water, and to be preserved must be kept under petroleum or some similar liquid. Sodium is used…

-- Solar spots. See Sun spots, under Sun. -- Solar system (Astron.), the sun, with the group of celestial bodies which, held by its attraction, revolve round it. The system comprises the major planets, with their satellites; the minor planets, or asteroids, and the comets; also, the meteorids, the matter that furnish…

A chance group; a company of persons who happen to be together; a troop; also, an assemblage of animals. [Obs.] "A sort of shepherds." Spenser. "A sort of steers." Spenser. "A sort of doves." Dryden. "A sort of rogues." Massinger. A boy, a child, and we a sort of us, Vowed against his voyage. Chapman.…