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lated to muscovite, but containing soda instead of potash. It is characteristic of the paragonite schist of the Alps.

Of or pertaining to Patagonia. -- n.

le assumed by the ancient British chiefs when called to lead other chiefs. The dread Pendragon, Britain's king of kings. Tennyson.

ng five angles, and, consequently, five sides; any figure having five angles. Regular pentagon, a pentagon in which the angles are all equal, and the sides all equal.

Having five corners or angles. Pentagonal dodecahedron. See Dodecahedron, and Pyritohedron.

In the form of a pentagon; with five angles. Sir T. Browne.

Pentagonal.

A nitrogenous phosphorized principle found in brain tissue. By decomposition it yields neurine, fatty acids, and other bodies.

o takes lead in some great scene, enterprise, conflict, or the like. Shakespeare, the protagonist on the great of modern poetry. De Quincey.

A plane figure with fifteen angles, and consequently fifteen sides.

One of the four pursuivants of the English college of arms.

A dragonet, or sculpin.

ly the cultivated A. majus, whose showy flowers are fancifully likened to the face of a dragon.

A plant of the genus Artemisa (A. dracunculus), much used in France for flavoring vinegar.

A plane figure having four sides and angles; a quadrangle, as a square, a rhombus, etc.

Of or pertaining to a tetragon; having four angles or sides; thus, the square, the parallelogram, the rhombus, and the trapezium are tetragonal fingers.

A figure having eleven angles and eleven sides.

Having no paragon or equal; matchless; peerless. [R.] Your unparagoned mistress is dead. Shak.

To transport in a wagon or wagons; as, goods are wagoned from city to city.

Having a top, or head, shaped like the top of a covered wagon, or resembling in section or outline an inverted U, thus as, a wagonheaded ceiling.