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Characterized by a high skull.

Loftiness of skull.

Of or pertaining to the high mountain range of "thunder- smitten" peaks (now Kimara), between Epirus and Macedonia. Shelley.

A peculiar larval form of Phoronis, a genus of marine worms, having a circle of ciliated tentacles.

A club or association of persons interested in aëronautics.

A modification of the aëroplane, having curved surfaces, the advantages of which were first demonstrated by Lilienthal.

One of the air cells of algals.

A kind of annelid larva having both a dorsal and a ventral circle of special cilia.

Having a human head (upon an animal's body), as the Egyptian sphinx.

An articular surface on the ilium of birds against which the great trochanter of the femur plays.

A group of Turbellaria in which there is no anal aperture.

Without an anal office.

Chondritis of a joint.

A kind of chætopod larva in which no circles of cilia are developed.

Extremely heinous; full of enormous wickedness; as, atrocious quilt or deeds.

An atrocious or extremely cruel deed. The atrocities which attend a victory. Macaulay.

Having a gold-colored head.

The trichloride of gold combination with the chloride of another metal, forming a double chloride; -- called also chloraurate.

The European bison (Bison bonasus, or Europæus), once widely distributed, but now nearly extinct, except where protected in the Lithuanian forests, and perhaps in the Caucasus. It is distinct from the Urus of Cæsar, with which it has often been confused.

A double cyanide of gold and some other metal or radical; -- called also cyanaurate.