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The application of photography to the delineation of the sun, moon, and stars.

stronomical instrument, formed of two cones, on whose surface the constellations were delineated.

The armpit, or the cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder.

ke, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow. Tiber trembled underneath her banks. Shak.

The under part of the body of animals, corresponding to the human belly. Underneath the belly of their steeds. Shak.

Under, or lower in place; beneath not so high; as, below the moon; below the knee. Shak.

sisting of a slender knife, either straight or curved, generally used by introducing it beneath the part to be divided, and cutting towards the surface.

To describe in proper terms (the figures of heraldic devices); also, to delineate (armorial bearings); to emblazon. The coat of , arms, which I am not herald enough to blazon into English. Addison.

as of flowers; to give promise, as by or with flowers. A better country blooms to view, Beneath a brighter sky. Logan.

Characterized by blots or heavy touches; coarsely depicted; wanting in delineation. Ruskin.

A large food fish (Diagramma lineatum), native of the East Indies.

lar of iron . . . which if you had struck, would make . . . a great bomb in the chamber beneath. Bacon.

The part of anything which is beneath the contents and supports them, as the part of a chair on which a person sits, the circular base or lower head of a cask or tub, or the plank floor of a ship's hold; the under surface. Barrels with the bottom knocked out. Macaulay. No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low…

d across the plain. Before his lord the ready spaniel bounds. Pope. And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider. Byron.

A small country house. "A shooting box." Wilson. Tight boxes neatly sashed. Cowper.

ncluding the common crabs, characterized by a small and short abdomen, which is bent up beneath the large cephalo-thorax. [Also spelt Brachyoura.] See Crab, and Illustration in Appendix.

Full of branches; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches. Beneath thy branchy bowers of thickest gloom. J. Scott.

re, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface. The breakers were right beneath her bows. Longfellow.

which bricks are baked or burnt; or a pile of green bricks, laid loose, with arches underneath to receive the wood or fuel for burning them.

The ocean; the water of an ocean, sea, or salt lake. Not long beneath the whelming brine . . . he lay. Cowper.