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Of or pertaining to rachitis; affected by rachitis; rickety.

Literally, inflammation of the spine, but commonly applied to the rickets. See Rickets.

A dissecting instrument for opening the spinal canal. [Written also rachiotome.]

See Rachitis.

Tracheitis.

A delicate, hairlike siliceous spicule, found in certain sponges. Trichite sheaf (Zoöl.), one of the small sheaflike fascicles of slender setæ characteristic of certain sponges. See Illust. under Spicule.

A wheel-like joint of the stem of a fossil crinoid.

A glucoside extracted from the leaves of a certain plant (Urechitis suberecta) as a bitter white crystalline substance.

A poisonous glucoside found accompanying urechitin, and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance.

A tribe of Indians native of the region between the Arkansas and Red rivers. They are related to the Pawnees. See Pawnees.

The uppermost member or division of the capital of a column, immediately under the architrave. See Column.

sal angles of a pediment. Acroteria are also sometimes placed upon the gables in Gothic architecture. J. H. Parker.

Sculptured ornaments, used in classical architecture, representing rams' heads or skulls.

n in the Alhambra, which affords an unusually fine exhibition of Saracenic or Arabesque architecture.

sed; pleasurable excitement; that which amuses; diversion. His favorite amusements were architecture and gardening. Macaulay.

me as Angle iron. -- Angle bead (Arch.), a bead worked on or fixed to the angle of any architectural work, esp. for protecting an angle of a wall. -- Angle brace, Angle tie (Carp.), a brace across an interior angle of a wooden frame, forming the hypothenuse and securing the two side pieces together. Knight. -- Angle…

A species of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.

tor to his creditor, to one of several debts which are due from the former to the latter. Chitty.

A prefix signifying chief, arch; as, architect, archiepiscopal. In Biol. and Anat. it usually means primitive, original, ancestral; as, archipterygium, the primitive fin or wing.

The architectural member surrounding the curved opening of an arch, corresponding to the architrave in the case of a square opening.