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A group intermediate in importance between an order and a subclass.

A board or group of moldings running round a room on a level with the tops of the chair backs. Knight.

tute of complex vocal muscles and are not singing birds, but belong to a widely different group allied to the humming birds.

A group of symptoms occurring together that are characteristic and indicative of some underlying cause, such as a disease.

ing up of complex compounds by special reactions, whereby their component radicals are so grouped that the resulting substances are identical in every respect with the natural articles when such occur; thus, artificial alcohol, urea, indigo blue, alizarin, etc., are made by synthesis.

itself structural or other characters which are usually found only in two or more diverse groups; -- said of species, genera, and higher groups. See the Note under Comprehensive,

A representation of some scene by means of persons grouped in the proper manner, placed in appropriate postures, and remaining silent and motionless.

An artificial group of stony corals including those which have transverse septa in the calicles. The genera Pocillopora and Favosites are examples.

such as furniture, clothing, household items or bric-a-brac), conducted by one or a small group of individuals, at a location which is not a normal retail establishment.

Any of a group of meteors appearing November 20-23; -- so called because they appear to radiate from a point in Taurus.

A group of young animals, especially of young ducks; a brood; a litter. A team of ducklings about her. Holland.

A group of Hymneoptera comprising the sawflies.

An artificial group of passerine birds having slender bills, as the humming birds.

A triplet; a group of three lines.

te crystalline camphorlike substance; -- called also camphene. By extension, any one of a group of related substances.

Containing, or consisting of, three different parts, as elements, atoms, groups, or radicals, which are regarded as having different functions or relations in the molecule; thus, sodic hydroxide, NaOH, is a ternary compound.

A group of rocks having a common age or origin; -- nearly equivalent to formation, but used somewhat less comprehensively.

A group or series of four dramatic pieces, three tragedies and one satyric, or comic, piece (or sometimes four tragedies), represented consequently on the Attic stage at the Dionysiac festival.

A nonsexual spore, one of a group of four regularly occurring in red seaweeds. -- Tet`ra*spor"ic, a.

of four; quadrivalent; tetravalent; sometimes, in a specific sense, having four hydroxyl groups, whether acid or basic.