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Past; gone by; hence, past one's prime; worn; faded; as, a passée belle. Ld. Lytton.

Of or pertaining to a former time or state; neither present nor future; gone by; elapsed; ended; spent; as, past troubles; past offences. "Past ages." Milton. Past master. See under Master.

A dialect peculiar to the illiterate classes; a provincial form of speech. The jargon and patois of several provinces. Sir T. Browne.

To talk glibly; to chatter; to harangue. [Colloq.] I've gone out and pattered to get money. Mayhew.

vault by means of which the square space in the middle of a building is brought to an octagon or circle to receive a cupola.

A combining form denoting five; as, pentacapsular; pentagon.

A pentagon. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

An Algonquin tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited a part of Illinois.

A Grecian legendary hero, son of Jupiter and Danaë, who slew the Gorgon Medusa.

osed by a projection of the base of the lower lip; masked, as in the flower of the snapdragon.

n inaccurate term for a mechanical way of representing objects in the direction of the diagonal of a cube. -- Perspective glass, a telescope which shows objects in the right position.

A rare mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals of a white, yellow, or grayish color and adamantine luster. It is a chlorocarbonate of lead.

branch of a plumularian hydroid specially modified in structure for the protection of the gonothecæ.

An extensive division of birds which includes the woodpeckers, toucans, trogons, hornbills, kingfishers, motmots, rollers, and goatsuckers. By some writers it is made to include also the cuckoos, swifts, and humming birds.

parts, when arranged in rows so as to have a plumelike appearance; as, a pinnule of a gorgonia; the pinnules of a crinoid.

A kingbolt of a wagon.

A sea urchin (Goniocidaris hystrix) having very long spines, native of both the American and European coasts. To pay the piper, to bear the cost, expense, or trouble.

Same as Archegonium.

To introduce as an antagonist; to set forward for or in a contest; as, to pit one dog against another.

Any free-swimming gonophore of a hydroid; a hydroid medusa.