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A cloth, often adorned with gold or silver lace, placed on the bishop's lap while he sits in celebrating mass, or in ordaining priests.

A West African antelope (Cephalophus rufilotus) of a deep bay color, with a broad dorsal stripe of black; -- called also conquetoon.

A colorless liquid, C7H8O2, with a peculiar odor. It is the methyl ether of pyrocatechin, and is obtained by distilling guaiacum from wood-tar creosote, and in other ways. It has been used in treating pulmonary tuberculosis.

ed to the lower part of the triglyphs, and also to the lower faces of the mutules, in the Doric order; -- called also campana, and drop. Gutta serena Etym: [L., lit. serene or clear drop] (Med.), amaurosis. -- Guttæ band (Arch.), the listel or band from which the guttæ hang.

casionally born with guttural swellings. W. Guthrie. In such a sweet, guttural accent. Landor.

The order of fishes which includes the Gymnotus or electrical eel. The dorsal fin is wanting.

The adoration or worship of woman. The sentimental gyneolatry of chivalry, which was at best but skin- deep. Lowell.

ocke. The verdict of the judges was biased by nothing else than habitudes of thinking. Landor.

Any corridor or passage in a building.

chiefly in songs of praise or thanksgiving to God, and as an expression of gratitude or adoration. Rev. xix. 1 (Rev. Ver. ) So sung they, and the empyrean rung With Hallelujahs. Milton. In those days, as St. Jerome tells us,"any one as he walked in the fields, might hear the plowman at his hallelujahs." Sharp.…

A forerunner; a precursor; a messenger. I knew by these harbingers who were coming. Landor.

of dignity. Let there be deducted, out of our main potation, Five marks in hatchments to adorn this thigh. Beau. & Fl.

or bring on. I hazarded the loss of whom I loved. Shak. They hazard to cut their feet. Landor.

A manner of dressing the hair or of adorning it, whether with or without a veil, ribbons, combs, etc.

Shaped like a heart; cordate. [R.] Landor.

Animation, as in discourse; ardor; fervency. With all the strength and heat of eloquence. Addison.

The half channel or groove in the edge of the triglyph in the Doric order.

ous to domestic fowls; whence the name. Called also, stinking nightshade, from the fetid odor of the plant. See Hyoscyamus.

A variety of barite emitting a fetid odor when rubbed or heated.

h) made, about 1722, by the Moravians at the invitation of Nicholas Lewis, count of Zinzendorf, upon his estate in the circle of Bautzen.