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Of or pertaining to the monarchy composed of Austria and Hungary.

about half an hour after sunset, and also at early dawn), when the people repeat the Ave Maria. Ave Maria ! blessed be the hour ! Byron.

See prehensile processes on the cells of some Bryozoa, often having the shape of a bird's bill.

See Diatom.

A narrow opening, often cruciform, through which arrows might be discharged.

Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me.

Baryta.

Of or pertaining to Bavaria. -- n.

The larva of certain starfishes as developed in the free- swimming stage.

(Zoöl.) A peculiar early larval stage of certain starfishes, having a bilateral structure, and swimming by means of bands of vibrating cilia.

Of or pertaining to Cæsar or the Cæsars; imperial. Cæsarean section (Surg.), the operation of taking a child from the womb by cutting through the walls of the abdomen and uterus; -- so called because Julius Cæsar is reported to have been brought into the world by such an operation.

A genus of showy herbaceous or shrubby plant, biought from South America; slipperwort. It has a yellow or purple flower, often spotted or striped, the shape of which suggests its name.

Of or pertaining to the calendar or a calendar.

The bones of the cranium; more especially, the bones of the domelike upper portion.

A hydroid of the family ampanularidæ, characterized by having the polyps or zooids inclosed in bell-shaped calicles or hydrothecæ.

A large, long-legged South American bird (Dicholophus cristatus) which preys upon snakes, etc. See Seriema.

A genus of oceanic heteropod Mollusca, having a thin, glassy, bonnet-shaped shell, which covers only the nucleus and gills.

Relating to a chain; like a chain; as, a catenary curve.

Pertaining to Catiline, the Roman conspirator; resembling Catiline's conspiracy.

Of or relating to a hundred years. -- n.