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A balcony, especially a large and uncovered one.

A division of Crinoidea including numerous fossil species in which the body is covered with tessellated plates.

Invertebrate animals covered with shells, especially mollusks; shellfish.

An order of reptiles which includes the turtles and tortoises. The body is covered by a shell consisting of an upper or dorsal shell, called the carapace, and a lower or ventral shell, called the plastron, each of which consists of several plates.

ure, which is represented as winged, and standing on winged fiery wheels, the wings being covered with eyes. The representations of it are evidently suggested by the vision of Ezekiel (ch. i.)

tic performances or spectacles are exhibited for the amusement of spectators; anciently uncovered, except the stage, but in modern times roofed.

A surface or organ bearing a theca, or covered with thecæ.

To a great depth, or to a greater depth than usual; as, land covered thick with manure. Thick and threefold, in quick succession, or in great numbers. [Obs.] L'Estrange.

le internal-combustion engine in which the mixture enters the crank case through a port uncovered by the piston near the end of its stroke.

A large, edible, deep-water food fish (Lopholatilus chamæleonticeps) more or less thickly covered with large, round, yellow spots.

A surface covered with tiles, or composed of tiles. They . . . let him down through the tiling. Luke v. 19.

small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat. Tilt boat (Naut.), a boat covered with canvas or other cloth. -- Tilt roof (Arch.), a round-headed roof, like the canopy of a wagon.

Covered with growth timber; wooden; as, well-timbered land.

Thin plates of iron covered with tin; tin plate.

Covered, or plated, with tin; as, a tinned roof; tinned iron.

To form tissue of; to interweave. Covered with cloth of gold tissued upon blue. Bacon.

Covered with matted woolly hairs; as, a tomentose leaf; a tomentose leaf; a tomentose membrane.

nd a roof of skins of the walrus or seal. In Alaska it is often partially underground and covered with timber and turf. Topeks are also used by Indians of the lower Yukon region.

Cylindrical with alternate swellings and contractions; having the surface covered with rounded prominences.

f or pertaining to Torricelli, an Italian philosopher and mathematician, who, in 1643, discovered that the rise of a liquid in a tube, as in the barometer, is due to atmospheric pressure. See Barometer. Torricellian tube, a glass tube thirty or more inches in length, open at the lower end and hermetically sealed at the…