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The Grecian Archipelago, or Ægean Sea, separating Greece from Asia Minor. It is studded with a vast number of small islands.

See Aragonite.

Feeding on frogs. Quart. Rev.

Pertaining to the shorter diagonal, as of a rhombic prism. Brachydiagonal axis, the shorter lateral axis of an orthorhombic crystal.

One of a race inhabiting the valleys of the Pyrenees, who until 1793 were political and social outcasts (Christian Pariahs). They are supposed to be a remnant of the Visigoths.

Living on fruits; fruit-consuming.

Beebread.

A plane figure of a thousand angles and sides. Barlow.

Promoting the discharge of bile from the system. -- n.

That diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal which makes an oblique angle witch the vertical axis. See Crystallization. -- a.

A kind of large broad-wheeled wagon, usually covered, for traveling in soft soil and on prairies.

Broken; uneven. [Obs.] "Confragose cataracts." Evelyn.

Feeding upon dung, as certain insects.

A nickname given to a person of Spanish (or, by extension, Portuguese or Italian) descent. [U. S.]

A dome-shaped structure built over relics of Buddha or some Buddhist saint. [East Indies]

t of a man, and the tail of a fish. W. Smith. This day a solemn feast the people hold To Dagon, their sea idol. Milton. They brought it into the house of Dagon. 1 Sam. v. 2.

plane figure having ten sides and ten angles; any figure having ten angles. A regular decagon is one that has all its sides and angles equal.

Pertaining to a decagon; having ten sides.

Demagogue.

Relating to, or like, a demagogue; factious.