Search the Dictionary

or trivial; the commonplace, in speech. The highest things were thus brought down to the banalities of discourse. J. Morley.

A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals of the ear. Canal boat, a boat for use on a canal; esp. one of peculiar shape, carrying freight, and drawn by horses walking on the towpath beside the canal. Canal lock. See Lock.

See Cannel coal.

Having a channel or groove, as in the leafstalks of most palms.

A minute canal.

Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals. [R.]

A mineral occuring in octahedral crystals, also massive, of a reddish color. It is a silicate of iron, zinc manganese, and glicinum, containing sulphur.

Pertaining to a dean or deanery. His rectorial as well as decanal residence. Churton. Decanal side, the side of the choir on which the dean's tall is placed. -- Decanal stall, the stall allotted to the dean in the choir, on the right or south side of the chancel. Shipley.

A figure by which the same word or clause is repeated after intervening matter. Gibbs.

A lighthouse, or the apparatus placed in it for giving light.

Analysis of the structure of materials from careful observation of photomicrographs.

Of or pertaining to the olecranon.

Situated behind, or posterior to, the anus.

A method or process of psychotherapeutic analysis based on the work of Dr. Sigmund Freud (1856- --) of Vienna. The method rests upon the theory that hysteria is characteristically due to repression of desires consciously rejected but subconsciously persistent; it consists in a close analysis of the patient's mental his…

= Psychanalysis, Psychanalytic.

Having a general affinity to ranunculaceous plants. Ranal alliance (Bot.), a name proposed by Lindley for a group of natural orders, including Ranunculaceæ, Magnoliaceæ, Papaveraceæ, and others related to them.

Of or pertaining to a rural dean; as, a ruridecanal district; the ruridecanal intellect. [R.]

Having the ratio of one and one third to one (as 4 : 3).

Of or pertaining to a subdean or subdeanery.

Tympanic.