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A white crystalline nitrogenous substance (C6H4N4O5) obtained by the reduction of parabanic acid; -- called also leucoturic acid.

A camp permanently intrenched, attached to Turkish frontier fortresses.

a, China, etc., for the conveyance of a single person from place to place. [Written also palankeen.]

Of or pertaining to the phalanges. See Phalanx, 2.

Any marsupial belonging to Phalangista, Cuscus, Petaurus, and other genera of the family Phalangistidæ. They are arboreal, and the species of Petaurus are furnished with lateral parachutes. See Flying phalanger, under Flying.

, pl. of Phalanx.

Phalangeal.

One of the Phalangoidea.

Of or pertaining to Phalangoidea.

Any arboreal marsupial of the genus Phalangista. The vulpine phalangist (P. vulpina) is the largest species, the full grown male being about two and a half feet long. It has a large bushy tail.

Same as Phalangist.

A soldier belonging to a phalanx. [Obs.]

A division of Arachnoidea, including the daddy longlegs or harvestman (Phalangium) and many similar kinds. They have long, slender, many-jointed legs; usually a rounded, segmented abdomen; and chelate jaws. They breathe by tracheæ. Called also Phalangides, Phalangidea, Phalangiida, and Opilionea.

A phalanstery.

Of or pertaining to phalansterianism.

A system of phalansteries proposed by Fourier; Fourierism.

An association or community organized on the plan of Fourier. See Fourierism.

ormed in ranks and files close and deep. There were several different arrangements, the phalanx varying in depth from four to twenty-five or more ranks of men. "In cubic phalanx firm advanced." Milton. The Grecian phalanx, moveless as a tower. Pope.

The salagane.

The testing of a ledger to discover whether the debits and credits balance, by finding whether the sum of the personal credits increased by the difference between the debit and credit sums in the merchandise and other impersonal accounts equals the sum of personal debits. The equality would not show that the items were…