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Now, in the United States service, half of a company.

An order of fishes generally having the maxillary bone united with the premaxillary, and the articular united with the dentary.

An extensive suborder of fresh-water physostomous fishes having the anterior vertebræ united and much modified; the Eventognathi.

hird century, who taught that the human soul emanates from the divine Being, to whom it reunited at death.

des) with the spikelets arranged in great silky plumes, growing in swamps in the Southern United States. (b) The still finer E. Ravennæ from the Mediterranean region. The name is sometimes extended to the whole genus. -- Plume moth (Zoöl.), any one of numerous small, slender moths, belonging to the family Pterophoridæ…

The retention by the President of the United States of a bill unsigned so that it does not become a law, in virtue of the following constitutional provision (Const. Art. I., sec. 7, cl. 2): "If any bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him,…

A game at cards derived from brag, and first played about 1835 in the Southwestern United States. Johnson's Cyc.

rs. The term police power is not definitely fixed in meaning. In the earlier cases in the United States it was used as including the whole power of internal government, or the powers of government inherent in every sovereignty to the extent of its dominions (11 Peters (U. S.) 102). The later cases have excepted from it…

A Linnæan class of plants having stamens united in three or more bodies or bundles by the filaments.

Belonging to the class Polyadelphia; having stamens united in three or more bundles.

latter assumes but one cone for the whole map. Polyconic projection is that in use in the United States coast and geodetic survey.

Having the same percentage composition (that is, having the same elements united in the same proportion by weight), but different molecular weights; -- often used with with; thus, cyanic acid (CNOH), fulminic acid (C2N2O2H2), and cyanuric acid (C3N3O3H3), are polymeric with each other.

es of the genus Trachynotus, of which four species are found on the Atlantic coast of the United States; -- called also palometa.

gh. A kind of poncho made of rubber or painted cloth is used by the mounted troops in the United States service.

A bird of the Western United States (Phalænoptilus Nutalli) allied to the whip-poor-will.

istinguished from a commander whose name was not so posted. The term was also used in the United States navy; but no such commission as post-captain was ever recognized in either service, and the term has fallen into disuse.

der, under Money. -- Postal note, an order payable to bearer, for a sum of money (in the United States less than five dollars under existing law), issued from one post office and payable at another specified office. -- Postal Union, a union for postal purposes entered into by the most important powers, or governments…

The chief officer of the post-office department of a government. In the United States the postmaster-general is a member of the cabinet.

is plant before it was to the Solanum tuberosum, and this is the "potato" of the Southern United States. -- Wild potato. (Bot.) (a) A vine (Ipomoea pandurata) having a pale purplish flower and an enormous root. It is common in sandy places in the United States. (b) A similar tropical American plant (I. fastigiata) whi…

er upon the amount realized by an execution; -- estimated in England, and formerly in the United States, at so much of the pound. Burrill. Bouvier.