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chists overlying the true nummulitic formation in the Alps, and included in the Eocene Tertiary.

Second Order of St. Francis, -- called also Poor Clares or Minoresses. -- Franciscan Tertiaries, the Third Order of St. Francis.

An extinct genus of Tertiary mammals allied to the horse, but three-toed, having on each foot a small lateral hoof on each side of the main central one. It is believed to be one of the ancestral genera of the Horse family.

Using a noose, as a gladiator. [Obs. or R.] Retiary and laqueary combatants. Sir T. Browne.

Rocky Mountain region, as in the Laramie Mountains, and formerly supposed to be of the Tertiary age, but now generally regarded as Cretaceous, or of intermediate and transitional character. It contains beds of lignite, often valuable for coal, and is hence also called the lignitic group. See Chart of Geology.…

Resident; residentiary; as, mansionary canons.

Of or pertaining to the middle division of the Tertiary. -- n.

ter; bishop's cap. False miterwort, a white-flowered perennial herb of the United States (Tiarella cardifolia).

A soft Tertiary sandstone; -- applied to a rock occurring in Switzerland. See Chart of Geology.

ent than the Eocene, that is, including both the Miocene and Pliocene divisions of the Tertiary.

A genus of extinct Tertiary Foraminifera, having a thin, flat, round shell, containing a large number of small chambers arranged spirally.

One of the tertiary colors, composed of violet and green mixed in equal strength and proportion.

A genus of extinct herbivorous mammals, abundant in the Tertiary formation of the Rocky Mountains. It is more or less related to the camel, hog, and deer.

An extinct genus of herbivorous Tertiary mammals, once supposed to have resembled the tapir in form, but now known to have had a more slender form, with a long neck like that of a llama. [Written also Palæotherium.]

"Papal Christians." Bp. Burnet. Papal cross. See Illust. 3 of Cross. -- Papal crown, the tiara.

patriarch hoary, the sage of his kith and the hamlet. Longfellow. The monarch oak, the partiarch of trees. Dryde.

One of the great divisions of geological time; as, the Tertiary period; the Glacial period. See the Chart of Geology.

Of or pertaining to the epoch, or the deposits, following the Tertiary, and immediately preceding man. -- n.

Of, pertaining to, or characterizing, the most recent division of the Tertiary age.

e and acid having the same number of carbon atoms; -- distinguished from secondary and tertiary alcohols. -- Primary amine (Chem.), an amine containing the amido group, or a derivative of ammonia in which only one atom of hydrogen has been replaced by a basic radical; -- distinguished from secondary and tertiary amine…