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or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library are all displaced.

ct each other; the one being in the first point of Aries, the other in the first point of Libra. -- Equinoctial time (Astron.) reckoned in any year from the instant when the mean sun is at the mean vernal equinoctial point.

The libration of the moon. Whewell.

Characterized by a current which flows inward; as, the incurrent orifice of lamellibranch Mollusca.

Having the two ends unequal, as in the clam, quahaug, and most lamellibranch shells.

Below the gills; -- applied to the ventral portion of the pallial chamber in the lamellibranchs.

Same as Lamellibranchia.

n interest in. [Obs.] Soldiers note forts, armories, and magazines; scholars listen after libraries, disputations, and professors. Fuller.

nnel, or men; as, the baggage, munitions, provisions, etc., of an army; or the buildings, libraries, and apparatus of a college, in distinction from its officers.

ted by Gutenberg at Mentz, 1450-55; -- so called because a copy was found in the Mazarine Library, at Paris, about 1760. -- Mazarine blue, a deep blue color, named in honor of Cardinal Mazarin.

mal kingdom, including the classes Cephalopoda, Gastropoda, PteropodaScaphopoda, and Lamellibranchiata, or Conchifera. These animals have an unsegmented bilateral body, with most of the organs and parts paired, but not repeated longitudinally. Most of them develop a mantle, which incloses either a branchial or a pulmon…

An order of lamellibranchs having but one muscle for closing the shell, as the oyster.

A very small libratory motion of the earth's axis, by which its inclination to the plane of the ecliptic is constantly varying by a small amount.

sed, enjoyed, visited, or the like; not private; public; unrestricted in use; as, an open library, museum, court, or other assembly; liable to the approach, trespass, or attack of any one; unprotected; exposed. If Demetrius . . . have a matter against any man, the law is open and there are deputies. Acts xix. 33. The s…

Of material things, like the books in a library.

Same as Lamellibranchia.

r justify by reason or argument; -- usually with out; as, to reason out the causes of the librations of the moon.

To mark or indicate by a rebus. He [John Morton] had a fair library rebused with More in text and Tun under it. Fuller.

Same as Pellibranchiata.

The sign or constellation Libra. Platform scale. See under Platform. tip the scales, influence an action so as to change an outcome from one likely result to another.