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A fixed star, in Medusa's head, in the constellation Perseus, remarkable for its periodic variation in brightness.

t is generally separated in the record by unconformities. Algonkian rocks are both sedimentary and igneous. Although fossils are rare, life certainly existed in this period. -- n.

To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.

The act or process of affording nutriment; the function of the alimentary canal.

A star in the tail of the Great Bear, the one next the bowl in the Dipper.

omary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.

An organic radical, C3H5, existing especially in oils of garlic and mustard.

Quite by one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; single; solitary; -- applied to a person or thing. Alone on a wide, wide sea. Coleridge. It is not good that the man should be alone. Gen. ii. 18.

A state of being alone, or without company; solitariness. [R.] Bp. Montagu.

An instrument of the saxhorn family, used exclusively in military music, often replacing the French horn. Grove.

An instrument of the saxhorn family, used exclusively in military music, often replacing the French horn. Grove.

The elevation of a point, or star, or other celestial object, above the horizon, measured by the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between such point and the horizon. It is either true or apparent; true when measured from the rational or real horizon, apparent when from the sensible or apparent horizon.…

A false or bastard wing. See under Bastard.

The fabled food of the gods (as nectar was their drink), which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it.

ally bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays.

To enamel. [Obs.] Enlightened all with stars, And richly ameled. Chapman.

A variety of wheat from which starch is produced; -- called also French rice.

Start modified by heat so as to become a transparent mass, like horn. It is soluble in cold water.

Military stores, or provisions of all kinds for attack or defense. [Obs.]

A genus of leguminous shrubs, having long clusters of purple flowers; false or bastard indigo. Longfellow.