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Having the middle of the body surrounded by bands of cilia; -- said of the larvæ of certain marine annelids.

A small motile spore furnished with two vibratile cilia, found in certain green algæ.

dolichocephaly, flat, retreating forehead, with closed frontal sutures, and enormous superciliary ridges. The cranial capacity is estimated at about 1,220 cubic centimeters, being about midway between that of the Pithecanthropus and modern man. Hence, designating the Neanderthal race, or man, a species supposed to have…

having a long, slender, smooth, often bright-colored body, covered with minute vibrating cilia; -- called also Nemertea, Nemertida, and Rhynchocæla.

Having tentacles without vibratile cilia. Carpenter.

ain birds. See Illust. of Aves. Oared shrew (Zoöl.), an aquatic European shrew (Crossopus ciliatus); -- called also black water shrew.

nute scales imbedded in the skin. The limbs are rudimentary or wanting. It includes the cæcilians. Called also Gymnophiona and Ophidobatrachia.

Of or pertaining to the mouth; surrounding or lining the mouth; as, oral cilia or cirri.

uited to make or restore peace; of a peaceful character; not warlike; not quarrelsome; conciliatory; as, pacific words or acts; a pacific nature or condition.

The act or process of pacifying, or of making peace between parties at variance; reconciliation. "An embassy of pacification." Bacon.

Tending to make peace; conciliatory. Barrow.

Reconciliation; agreement after variance; harmony; concord. "The eternal love and pees." Chaucer.

A division of ciliated Infusoria having a circle of cilia around the oral disk and sometimes another around the body. It includes the vorticellas. See Vorticella.

d entire, others transformed into little ovoid pitchers, longitudinally triple-winged and ciliated, the mouth covered with a lid shaped like a cockleshell. -- California pitcher plant, the Darlingtonia California. See Darlingtonia. -- Pitcher plant, any plant with the whole or a part of the leaves transformed into pi…

One of the motile ciliated gametes, or zoögametes, found in isogamous plants, as many green algæ (Chlorophyceæ).

elenterates. It usually has a flattened oval or oblong form, and is entirely covered with cilia.

To appease to render favorable; to make propitious; to conciliate. Let fierce Achilles, dreadful in his rage, The god propitiate, and the pest assuage. Pope.

The act of appeasing the wrath and conciliating the favor of an offended person; the act of making propitious.

To cause to be friendly again; to conciliate anew; to restore to friendship; to bring back to harmony; to cause to be no longer at variance; as, to reconcile persons who have quarreled. Propitious now and reconciled by prayer. Dryden. The church [if defiled] is interdicted till it be reconciled [i.e., restored to sanct…

Reconciliation. Milton.