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A proposition or device for securing peace, especially in the church. South.

A kind of elastic floor cloth, made of India rubber, gutta- percha, linseed oil, and powdered cork.

A vocabulary, or book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language or of a considerable number of them, with the definition of each; a dictionary; especially, a dictionary of the Greek, Hebrew, or Latin language.

A writer of a lexicon. [R.]

A book giving an account of monasteries.

A collection of names and terms; a dictionary; specif., a collection of Greek names, with explanatory notes, made by Julius Pollux about A.D.180.

An instrument to facilitate hearing, as an ear trumpet.

A prison so contructed that the inspector can see each of the prisoners at all times, without being seen.

A depository or place where all sorts of manufactured articles are collected for sale.

See Projector, above.

A small river which separated Italy from Cisalpine Gaul, the province alloted to Julius Cæsar.

Chopped meat, bread, etc., used to stuff legs of veal or other joints; stuffing; farce. Bacon.

A kind of magic lantorn.

Half conscious; imperfectly conscious. De Quincey.

r as silicates, it is, next to oxygen, the most abundant element of the earth's crust. Silicon is characteristically the element of the mineral kingdom, as carbon is of the organic world. Symbol Si. Atomic weight 28. Called also silicium.

An instrument, consisting essentially of a magic lantern in which photographic pictures are used, by which the image of a landscape, or any object, may be thrown upon a screen in such a manner as to seem to stand out in relief, so as to form a striking and accurate representation of the object itself; also, a pair of m…

A native oxide of antimony occurring in masses of a yellow color.

A dictionary of synonyms. C. J. Smith.

An instrument essentially the same as the telemetrograph.

Having the testicles naturally concealed, as in the case of the cetaceans.