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According to the French notation, which is followed also upon the Continent and in the United States, a unit with fifteen ciphers annexed; according to the English notation, the number produced by involving a million to the fourth power, or the number represented by a unit with twenty-four ciphers annexed. See the Note…

The challenge of a French sentinel, or patrol; -- used like the English challenge: "Who comes there" To be on the qui vive, to be on guard; to be watchful and alert, like a sentinel.

question by artifice, play upon words, caviling, or by raising any insignificant or impertinent question or point; to trifle in argument or discourse; to equivocate.

According to the French notation, which is used on the Continent and in America, the cube of a million, or a unit with eighteen ciphers annexed; according to the English notation, a number produced by involving a million to the fifth power, or a unit with thirty ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration.…

diating spicules. The pseudopodia project from the body like rays. It includes the polycystines. See Polycystina.

return; to repay; to compensate; to make amends for. Which in weight to reanswer, his pettiness would bow under. Shak.

Withdrawn; secluded. [R.] "Comfortably recessed from curious impertinents." Miss Edgeworth. Recessed arch (Arch.), one of a series of arches constructed one within another so as to correspond with splayed jambs of a doorway, or the like.

A combining form signifying straight; as, rectilineal, having straight lines; rectinerved.

Straight; consisting of a straight line or lines; bounded by straight lines; as, a rectineal angle; a rectilinear figure or course. -- Rec`ti*lin"e*al*ly, adv. -- Rec`ti*lin"e*ar*ly, adv.

The terminal part of the large intestine; -- so named because supposed by the old anatomists to be straight. See Illust. under Digestive.

ook upon, as in a certain relation; to hold as an popinion; to consider; as, to regard abstinence from wine as a duty; to regard another as a friend or enemy.

tern and Western hemispheres, and having long irregularly branched antlers, with the brow tines palmate.

kingdom. For the just we have said already thet some of them were reinstated in their pristine happiness and felicity. Glanvill.

The quality or state of being relevant; pertinency; applicability. Its answer little meaning, little relevancy bore. Poe.

Bearing upon, or properly applying to, the case in hand; pertinent; applicable. Close and relevant arguments have very little hold on the passions. Sydney Smith.

f attention or notice; hence, also, a casual observation, comment, or statement; as, a pertinent remark.

employ by a preliminary fee paid; to hire; to engage; as, to retain a counselor. A Benedictine convent has now retained the most learned father of their order to write in its defense. Addison.

The act of retaining, or the state of being ratined.

A translucent variety of serpentine, of a honey yellow or greenish yellow color, having a waxy resinlike luster.

out break of day, to give notice that it is time for the soldiers to rise, and for the sentinels to forbear challenging. "Sound a reveille." Dryden. For at dawning to assail ye Here no bugles sound reveille. Sir W. Scott.