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A. campestre, the sycamore maple is A. Pseudo-platanus, and the Norway maple is A. platanoides.

ina) of coarse grasses growing in marshes; -- called also cord grass. The tall S. cynosuroides is not good for hay unless cut very young. The low S. juncea is a common component of salt hay. -- Marsh harrier (Zoöl.), a European hawk or harrier (Circus æruginosus); -- called also marsh hawk, moor hawk, moor buzzard, pu…

d. The female fills the cells with insects or spiders, paralyzed by a sting, and thus provides food for its larvæ

position; -- namely, the Kyrie, the Gloria, the Credo, the Sanctus, and the Agnus Dei, besides sometimes an Offertory and the Benedictus. Canon of the Mass. See Canon. -- High Mass, Mass with incense, music, the assistance of a deacon, subdeacon, etc. -- Low Mass, Mass which is said by the priest through-out, without…

tomb, of the time of the Memphite dynasties, comprising an oblong structure with sloping sides (sometimes containing a decorated chamber, sometimes of solid masonry), and connected with a mummy chamber in the rock beneath.

tish court, having the management of the royal stables, etc. In ceremonial cavalcades he rides next to the sovereign. -- Master of the rolls, in England, an officer who has charge of the rolls and patents that pass the great seal, and of the records of the chancery, and acts as assistant judge of the court. Bouvier. W…

A place where animals are slaughtered for their hides and tallow. [Western U. S.]

d by grooving and tonguing. -- Match plate (Founding), a board or plate on the opposite sides of which the halves of a pattern are fastened, to facilitate molding. Knight. -- Match wheel (Mach.), a cogwheel of suitable pitch to work with another wheel; specifically, one of a pair of cogwheels of equal size.…

Any intestinal worm found in the stomach, esp. the common round worm (Ascaris lumbricoides), and allied species.

la), having a strong odor; dog's fennel. It is a native of Europe, now common by the roadsides in the United States.

Mechanical operation or action. He acknowledges nothing besides matter and motion; so that all must be performed either by mechanism or accident. Bentley.

The third above the keynote; -- so called because it divides the interval between the tonic and dominant into two thirds.

ined from certain sulphocyanates. It has acid properties and forms compounds called mellonides.

ng short oval elytra; the oil beetles. These beetles are sometimes used instead of cantharides for raising blisters. See Oil beetle, under Oil.

An iron-black or steel-gray mineral, consisting chiefly of the oxides of iron and titanium. It is commonly massive, but occurs also in rhombohedral crystals. Called also titanic iron ore, and ilmenite.

Any one of series of compounds, hydrosulphides of alcohol radicals, in composition resembling the alcohols, but containing sulphur in place of oxygen, and hence called also the sulphur alcohols. In general, they are colorless liquids having a strong, repulsive, garlic odor. The name is specifically applied to ethyl mer…

isolated, like Rotifer, or may multiply by gemmation to form higher aggregates, termed zoides. Perrier.

ections by the formation of internal partitions; as, merismatic growth, where one cell divides into many.

exican tea (Bot.), an aromatic kind of pigweed from tropical America (Chenopodium ambrosioides).

and is used as a substitute for borax as a blowpipe reagent in testing for the metallic oxides. Originally obtained by the alchemists from human urine, and called sal microcosmicum.