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nging of the mediæval religious orders called Hermits of St. Jerome. [Written also Hieronymite.]

ined within limits; narrow; circumscribed; restricted; as, our views of nature are very limited. Limited company, a company in which the liability of each shareholder is limited by the number of shares he has taken, so that he can not be called on to contribute beyond the amount of his shares. [Eng.] Mozley & W.…

With limitation.

The quality of being limited.

A friar licensed to beg within certain bounds, or whose duty was limited to a certain district. [Formerly written also limitour.] Chaucer. A limitour of the Gray Friars, in the time of his limitation, preached many times, and had one sermon at all times. Latimer.

A mineral occurring in small, green, transparent, monoclinic crystals. It is a hydrous phosphate of iron.

An eyestalk; the organ which bears the compound eyes of decapod Crustacea.

A salt of osmious acid.

An Ottoman. [R.] Shak.

A South African plant (Prionium Palmita) of the Rush family, having long serrated leaves. The stems have been used for making brushes.

A hydrous borate of lime, near priceite.

Any species of Pentremites.

A genus of crinoids belonging to the Blastoidea. They have five petal-like ambulacra.

The eyestalk of a crustacean.

An inhabitant of the earth before Adam.

One of the primitive segments, or metameres, of an animal.

A species of micaceous sandstone. -- Psam*mit"ic, a.

species of silk stuff, or taffeta, generally interwoven with gold. Tennyson. In silken samite she was light arrayed. Spenser.

A long-handled billhook. See Billhook. Scimiter pods (Bot.), the immense curved woody pods of a leguminous woody climbing plant (Entada scandens) growing in tropical India and America. They contain hard round flattish seeds two inches in diameter, which are made into boxes.

The hard integument of Crustacea.