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A priest of Apollo, during the Trojan war. (See 2.)

A fall or apostasy.

in a body while producing some change in it other than rise of temperature, as fusion, evaporation, or expansion, the quantity being constant for each particular body and for each species of change. -- Latent period. (a) (Med.) The regular time in which a disease is supposed to be existing without manifesting itself.…

so as to resemble latticework. A second species is O. Berneriana. The genus is merged in Aponogeton by recent authors.

according to which, under similar conditions of temperature and pressure, all gases and vapors contain in the same volume the same number of ultimate molecules; -- so named after Avogadro, an Italian scientist. Sometimes called Ampère's law. -- Bode's law (Astron.), an approximative empirical expression of the distan…

A heavy weapon of the Australian aborigines with a sharp- pointed end, about nine inches in length, projecting at right angles from the main part.

To aim a gun, spear, etc., horizontally; hence, to aim or point a weapon in direct line with the mark; fig., to direct the eye, mind, or effort, directly to an object. The foeman may with as great aim level at the edge of a penknife. Shak. The glory of God and the good of his church . . . ought to be the mark whereat w…

Not heavily armed; armed with light weapons; as, light troops; a troop of light horse.

Armed with light weapons or accouterments.

A tongue-shaped lobe of the parapodia of annelids. See Parapodium.

Resembling the genus Lindia; -- said of certain apodous insect larvæ. [See Illust. under Larva.]

The act, process, or method, of reducing a gas or vapor to a liquid by cold or pressure; as, the liquefaction of oxygen or hydrogen.

ng themselves, but do not tend to separate from each other as the particles of gases and vapors do; neither solid nor aëriform; as, liquid mercury, in distinction from mercury solidified or in a state of vapor.

A linear apothecium furrowed along the middle; the fruit of certain lichens.

A weapon of war, consisting of a pole armed with an axhead at its end, formerly used by the Scotch Highlanders.

ounted on a stock; -- so called in distinction from the crossbow when both were used as weapons of war. Also, sometimes, such a bow of about the height of a man, as distinguished from a much shorter one. To draw the longbow, to tell large stories.

Belonging to the seashore or a seaport; along and on the shore. "Longshore thieves." R. Browning.

One of a class of laborers employed about the wharves of a seaport, especially in loading and unloading vessels.

walls of fortification, or in the bulkhead of a ship, through which small arms or other weapons may be discharged at an enemy.

The fruit of the Japanese medlar (Photinia Japonica). It is as large as a small plum, but grows in clusters, and contains four or five large seeds. Also, the tree itself.