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Barren land having only a thin coat of grass. [Prov. Eng.]

A dry fruit which splits at maturity into several closed one- seeded portions.

Mariner's card, or compass.

Half or partially calcareous; as, a semicalcareous plant.

Consisting of silica and calcareous matter.

A district or province; a circar. [India]

A closed body or conceptacle containing one or more masses of spores or sporangia.

A carbonate containing an excess of the basic constituent.

Of or pertaining to the lowest division of the Carboniferous formations underlying the proper coal measures. It was a marine formation characterized in general by beds of limestone. -- n.

United with, or containing, carbon in less than the normal proportion. [Written also subcarburetted.] [Obsoles.]

Situated under or beneath a cartilage or cartilages.

Situated under the endocardium.

Situated under the cardiac pericardium.

s bishop of Rome. The pope having stretched his authority beyond the bounds of his suburbicarian precincts. Barrow.

A salt of sulphocarbonic acid; a thiocarbonate.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a sulphacid, H2CSO2 (called also thiocarbonic acid), or an acid, H2CS3, analogous to carbonic acid, obtained as a yellow oily liquid of a pungent odor, and forming salts.

A bicarbonate. [Obsoles.]

Bicarbureted. [Written also supercarburetted.] [Obsoles.]

An officer or person in a merchant ship, whose duty is to manage the sales, and superintend the commercial concerns, of the voyage.

Situated above, or in the upper part of, the carpus.