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the eyepiece of a telescope, so that the real or a magnified image falls on the sensitive plate.

A gauge, pattern, or mold, commonly a thin plate or board, used as a guide to the form of the work to be executed; as, a mason's or a wheelwright's templet.

dogma, belief, or doctrine, which a person holds or maintains as true; as, the tenets of Plato or of Cicero. That al animals of the land are in their kind in the sea, . . . is a tenet very questionable. Sir T. Browne. The religious tenets of his family he had early renounced with contempt. Macaulay.…

ra mater which separates the cerebellum from the cerebrum and often incloses a process or plate of the skull called the bony tentorium.

One of the dorsal plates of the operculum of a cirriped.

A raised level space, shelf, or platform of earth, supported on one or more sides by a wall, a bank of tuft, or the like, whether designed for use or pleasure.

The top, platform, or horizontal surface, of a rampart, on which the cannon are placed. See Illust. of Casemate.

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

A piece of plate armor for the head of a war horse; a tester.

Something, as money or plate, presented to a preson as a token of respect, or of obligation for services rendered.

ace, and a lower or ventral shell, called the plastron, each of which consists of several plates.

, or in proof of a doctrine. How oft, when Paul has served us with a text, Has Epictetus, Plato, Tully, preached! Cowper.

A thin plate of metal. [Obs.] "A teyne of silver." Chaucer.

the higher forms the plant body is a thallus, which may be filamentous or may consist of plates of cells; it is commonly undifferentiated into stem, leaves, and roots, and shows no distinct tissue systems; the fronds of many algæ, however, are modified to serve many of the functions of the above-named organs. Both ase…

uperhuman knowledge, by physical processes, as by the theurgic operations of some ancient Platonists, or by the chemical processes of the German fire philosophers; also, a direct, as distinguished from a revealed, knowledge of God, supposed to be attained by extraordinary illumination; especially, a direct insight into…

by the application of heat. Paquelin's thermocautery, thermocautery by means of a hollow platinum point, which is kept constantly hot by the passage through it of benzine vapor.

Closely; as, a plat of ground thick sown.

Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite; as, a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a thin covering.

A California composite plant (Layia platyglossa), the flower of which has yellow rays tipped with white.

A plate, or thin piece, of baked clay, used for covering the roofs of buildings, for floors, for drains, and often for ornamental mantel works.