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See Alcyonoid.

Not embryonate.

Applied to boiled potatoes cut into small pieces and heated in oil or butter. They are usually flavored with onion and parsley.

A sauce compounded of raw yolks of eggs beaten up with olive oil to the consistency of a sirup, and seasoned with vinegar, pepper, salt, etc.; -- used in dressing salads, fish, etc. Also, a dish dressed with this sauce.

See Glabella.

The condition of an ovule having but a single embryo. -- Mon*em`bry*on"ic, a.

The supraorbital point.

The edible seed of several species of pine; also, the tree producing such seeds, as Pinus Pinea of Southern Europe, and P. Parryana, cembroides, edulis, and monophylla, the nut pines of Western North America.

Consisting of, or having, several embryos; polyembryonic.

Polyembryonate.

e embryos in one seed, due either to the existence and fertilization of more than one embryonic sac or to the origination of embryos outside of the embryonic sac.

Having many names or titles; polyonymous. Sir W. Jones.

The use of a variety of names for the same object. G. S. Faber.

An object which has a variety of names.

Polyonomous.

A metallic handle with a clasp for holding a crayon.

a star of the first magnitude in the constellation Canis Minor, or the Little Dog.

Ray; beam. [Obs.] Spenser.

Darting forth rays, as the sun when it shines out.

A mangy or scabby creature. "Aroint thee, with!" the rump-fed ronyon cries. Shak.