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A group of Annelida remarkable for having no external segments or distinct ventral nerve ganglions.

Chief physician; -- a term applied, on the continent of Europe, to the first or body physician of princes and to the first physician of some cities. P. Cyc.

A metal-hubbed wheel of great strength and elasticity, esp. adapted for artillery carriages and motor cars.

A hollow blastula, supposed to be the primitive form; a c

Chief; primary; primordial. [Obs.] Cudworth.

Of or pertaining to an archdeacon. This offense is liable to be censured in an archidiaconal visitation. Johnson.

That form of episcopacy in which the chief power is in the hands of archbishops.

Of or pertaining to an archbishop; as, Canterbury is an archiepiscopal see.

The station or dignity of an archbishop; archiepiscopacy. Fuller.

The office of an archbishop; an archbishopric.

The higher order of clergy in Russia, including metropolitans, archbishops, and bishops. Pinkerton.

A violet dye obtained from several species of lichen (Roccella tinctoria, etc.), which grow on maritime rocks in the Canary and Cape Verd Islands, etc. Tomlinson.

Of or pertaining to the satiric Greek poet Archilochus; as, Archilochian meter.

The high priest of the Persian Magi, or worshipers of fire.

A chief of a monastery, corresponding to abbot in the Roman Catholic church.

Of or pertaining to Archimedes, a celebrated Greek philosopher; constructed on the principle of Archimedes' screw; as, Archimedean drill, propeller, etc. Archimedean screw, or Archimedes' screw, an instrument, said to have been invented by Archimedes, for raising water, formed by winding a flexible tube round a cylinde…

An extinct genus of Bryzoa characteristic of the subcarboniferous rocks. Its form is that of a screw.

The arched part of a structure.

Of or pertaining to an archipelago.

The Grecian Archipelago, or Ægean Sea, separating Greece from Asia Minor. It is studded with a vast number of small islands.