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See Dabchick.

Pertaining to an elench.

By means of an elench.

A fresh-water tortoise (Chelopus marmoratus) of California; -- used as food.

Of or pertaining to a heptarchy; constituting or consisting of a heptarchy. T. Warton.

Pertaining to a hierarch. "The great hierarchal standard." Milton.

Pertaining to a hierarchy. -- Hi`er*arch`ic*al*ly, adv.

A young male fur seal, esp. one from three to six years old; -- called also bachelor, because prevented from breeding by the older full-grown males.

Presiding over matter. [Obs.] Hallywell.

Having machicolations. "Machicolated turrets." C. Kingsley.

An opening between the corbels which support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, shooting or dropping missiles upen assailants attacking the base of the walls. Also, the construction of such defenses, in general, when of this character. See Illusts. of Battlement and Castle.…

Same as Machicolation.

Of or pertaining to a monarch, or to monarchy. Burke. -- Mo*nar"chic*al*ly, adv.

Of or pertaining to oligarchy, or government by a few. "Oligarchical exiles." Jowett (Thucyd. ).

Patriarchal.

The chicken of the peacock.

A small, burrowing, South American edentate (Chlamyphorus truncatus), allied to the armadillos. The shell is attached only along the back. [Written also pichyciego.]

ining to the mind, or its functions and diseases; mental; -- contrasted with physical. Psychical blindness, Psychical deafness (Med.), forms of nervous disease in which, while the senses of sight and hearing remain unimpaired, the mind fails to appreciate the significance of the sounds heard or the images seen. -- Psy…

Psychology.

A fleshy plant (Arenaria peploides) growing in large tufts in the sands of the northern Atlantic seacoast; -- called also sea sandwort, and sea purslane.