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An iron-potash mica, of a raven-black color, usually found in granitic rocks in small six-sided tables, or as an aggregation of minute opaque scales. See Mica.

Hanging down; as, lop ears; -- used also in compound adjectives; as, lopeared; lopsided.

- so called from the church of Notre Dame de Lorette, in Paris, near which many of them resided.

Having many faculties; versatile; many-sided.

Many-minded; many-sided. The multanimous nature of the poet. J. R. Lowell.

Having many sides; many-sided.

One of the nine goddesses who presided over song and the different kinds of poetry, and also the arts and sciences; -- often used in the plural. Granville commands; your aid, O Muses, bring: What Muse for Granville can refuse to sing Pope.

owheaded. -- Nail-headed molding (Arch.), an ornament consisting of a series of low four-sided pyramids resembling the heads of large nails; -- called also nail-head molding, or nail-head. It is the same as the simplest form of dogtooth. See Dogtooth.

ildren took names from their natal places. Camden. Propitious star, whose sacred power Presided o'er the monarch's natal hour. Prior.

An upright, four-sided pillar, gradually tapering as it rises, and terminating in a pyramid called pyramidion. It is ordinarily monolithic. Egyptian obelisks are commonly covered with hieroglyphic writing from top to bottom.

A count or earl who presided in the domestic court, and had the superintendence, of a royal household in Germany.

- generally in a bad sense; excessive frugality; niggardliness. Bacon. Awful parsimony presided generally at the table. Thackeray.

The household gods of the ancient Romans. They presided over the home and the family hearth. See Lar.

A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; -- sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and called also cell, and obedience. See Cell, 2.

alifornia prunes. German prune (Bot.), a large dark purple plum, of oval shape, often one-sided. It is much used for preserving, either dried or in sirup. Prune tree. (Bot.) (a) A tree of the genus Prunus (P. domestica), which produces prunes. (b) The West Indian tree, Prunus occidentalis. -- South African prune (Bot.…

A four-sided cutting tool or chisel having a diamond-shaped end.

A form of crystal common with quartz, consisting of two six- sided pyramids, base to base.

A four-sided figure having only right angles; a right-angled parallelogram.

he plural. "The remains of old Rome." Addison. When this remain of horror has entirely subsided. Burke.

A many-sided pyramidal head upon a nail; also a nail with such a head.