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Delivered; committed in trust. [Obs.]

A fabulous monster, half ox, half man.

A fabulous being, represented as half man and half horse.

composite plants, related to the thistles and including the cornflower or bluebottle (Centaurea Cyanus) and the star thistle (C. Calcitrapa).

A fight in which centaurs take part, -- a common theme for relief sculpture, as in the Parthenon metopes.

A gentianaceous plant not fully identified. The name is usually given to the Erytheræa Centaurium and the Chlora perfoliata of Europe, but is also extended to the whole genus Sabbatia, and even to the unrelated Centaurea.

e system of home study established in connection with the summer schools assembled at Chautauqua, N. Y., by the Methodist Episcopal bishop, J. H. Vincent.

Same as Centaur.

To renew or renovate. [R.]

ilapidation; renewal; repair; renovation; renaissance. Some great catastrophe or . . . instauration. T. Burnet.

One who renews or restores to a former condition. [R.] Dr. H. More.

To renew or renovate; to instaurate. [Obs.] Marston.

The India civet (Viverra zibetha).

A fabled monster, half man and half bull, confined in the labyrinth constructed by Dædalus in Crete.

Wrongly taught; as, a mistaught youth. L'Estrange.

Any flying marsupial of the genera Petaurus, Phalangista, Acrobata, and allied genera. See Flying mouse, under Flying, and Phalangister.

An eating house.

To restore. [Obs.]

The keeper of an eathing house or a restaurant.

Restoration. [Obs.] Cower.