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A sweetmeat of boiled brown sugar or molasses made with almonds, and flavored with orange or lemon juice, etc. Thackeray.

rbitrary, periodic function of two independent variables, in the proper form for a large class of physical problems, involving arbitrary data, over a spherical surface, and the deduction of solutions for every point of space. The functions employed in this method are called spherical harmonic functions. Thomson & Tait.…

A musical instrument, consisting of a series of hemispherical glasses which, by touching the edges with the dampened finger, give forth the tones.

of; to obey; to examine; to try in a judicial court; as, to hear a recitation; to hear a class; the case will be heard to-morrow.

tal. -- Heavy weight, in wrestling, boxing, etc., a term applied to the heaviest of the classes into which contestants are divided. Cf. Feather weight (c), under Feather.

A small portion of liquor left in a glass after drinking. "Bumpers around and no heeltaps." Sheridan.

lescope or instrument for viewing the sun without injury to the eyes, as through colored glasses, or with mirrors which reflect but a small portion of light. -- He`li*o*scop`ic, a.

Any plant, usually procumbent and mosslike, of the cryptogamous class Hepaticæ; -- called also scale moss and liverwort. See Hepaticæ, in the Supplement.

A Linnæan class of plants having seven stamens.

To search for plants, or new species of plants, with a view to classifying them. He herborized as he traveled. W. Tooke.

nd Italian the iambic of ten syllables; in French the iambic of twelve syllables; and in classic poetry the hexameter.

f reptiles; that branch of zoölogy which relates to reptiles, including their structure, classification, and habits.

a median fin. Some of the species are naked; others, as Carinaria and Atlanta, have thin glassy shells.

A Linnæan class of plants having six stamens.

A title, denoting a Spanish nobleman of the lower class.

e writing of the ancient Egyptian priests. It is made up of three, or, as some say, four classes of characters: first, the hieroglyphic proper, or figurative, in which the representation of the object conveys the idea of the object itself; second, the ideographic, consisting of symbols representing ideas, not sounds, a…

One of a class of respiratory pigments, widely distributed in the animal kingdom, capable of ready oxidation and reduction.

real event, including the actors and the action. -- Natural history, a description and classification of objects in nature, as minerals, plants, animals, etc., and the phenomena which they exhibit to the senses.

A highly exhausted glass tube with metallic electrodes nearly in contact so as to exhibit the insulating effects of a vacuum. It was used by the German physicist W. Hittorf (b. 1824).

One of the classes of echinoderms.