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accept the Ten Commandments and the "useful" portions of the Bible, but deny the need of rulers, priests, or churches, and have no confessions, icons, or marriage ceremonies. They are communistic, opposed to any violence, and unwilling to use the labor of animals. Driven out of Russia proper, many have emigrated to Cyp…

A ruler; a governor; a prince.

One of a group of gigantic, horned beetles, including Dynastus Neptunus, and the Hercules beetle (D. Hercules) of tropical America, which grow to be six inches in length.

or succession of kings, of the same line or family; the continued lordship of a race of rulers.

A concretionary nodule of clay ironstone, of the size of a walnut or larger, so called by the ancients, who believed that the eagle transported these stones to her nest to facilitate the laying of her eggs; aëtites.

The esculent tubers of the umbelliferous plants Bunium flexuosum and Carum Bulbocastanum.

ship (Naut.), to put the helm hard, or regulate the sail, to prevent pitching when closehauled. -- To ease the helm (Naut.), to put the helm more nearly amidships, to lessen the effect on the ship, or the strain on the wheel rope. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

eats into itself." Byron. -- To eat to windward (Naut.), to keep the course when closehauled with but little steering; -- said of a vessel.

Capable of being eaten; fit to be eaten; proper for food; esculent; edible. -- n.

cclesiastical States, the territory formerly subject to the Pope of Rome as its temporal ruler; -- called also States of the Church.

In an ecclesiastical manner; according ecclesiastical rules.

The system of rules and regulations by which anything is managed; orderly system of regulating the distribution and uses of parts, conceived as the result of wise and economical adaptation in the author, whether human or divine; as, the animal or vegetable economy; the economy of a poem; the Jewish economy. The positio…

A cutaneous eruption, consisting of large, round pustules, upon an indurated and inflamed base. Dunglison.

Fit to be eaten as food; eatable; esculent; as, edible fishes. Bacon. -- n.

Having no granules, as chlorophyll in certain conditions. R. Brown.

A person who, on account of his age, occupies the office of ruler or judge; hence, a person occupying any office appropriate to such as have the experience and dignity which age confers; as, the elders of Israel; the elders of the synagogue; the elders in the apostolic church.

Lifeless matter deposited in the form of minute granules within the protoplasm of living cells.

Pertaining to rudiments or first principles; rudimentary; elementary. "The elemental rules of erudition." Cawthorn.

Tending to elude or deceive; evasive; fraudulent; fallacious; deceitful; deceptive. -- E*lu"so*ri*ness, n.

To appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as property intrusted to one's care; to apply to one's private uses by a breach of trust; as, to embezzle money held in trust.