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Pertaining to, or near, the carotids or one of them; as, the carotid gland.

Of or pertaining to a caryatid.

(Arch.) A draped female figure supporting an entablature, in the place of a column or pilaster.

Caryatids.

A granule of chlorophyll; -- also called chloroleucite.

The season of Christmas.

A protoplasmic granule of some other color than green; -- also called chromoleucite.

See Colocynth. Shak.

Marking an equality in the tides; having high tide at the same time. Cotidal lines (Phys. Geog.), lines on a map passing through places that have high tide at the same time.

liquid, C11H11N; also, any one of several substances metameric with, and resembling, cryptidine proper.

One of the Cystidea.

An order of Crinoidea, mostly fossils of the Paleozoic rocks. They were usually roundish or egg-shaped, and often unsymmetrical; some were sessile, others had short stems.

One of the Cystidea.

The triangular space under the beak of many brachiopod shells.

One of a group of gigantic, horned beetles, including Dynastus Neptunus, and the Hercules beetle (D. Hercules) of tropical America, which grow to be six inches in length.

The reflux of tide water; the retiring tide; -- opposed to flood tide.

Same as Epiglottic.

A rock occurring in the Alps, consisting of saussurite and smaragdite; -- sometimes called gabbro.

The time of evening; evening. [Poetic.] Spenser.

Fastidiousness; squeamishness. [Obs.] Swift.