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A scheme to unite all the Greeks in one political body.

An advocate of Panhellenism.

An assembly or association of Greeks from all the states of Greece.

A layer of green parenchimatous cells formed on the inner side of the phellogen.

The tissue of young cells which produces cork cells.

Art of modeling in cork.

A friend of Greece, or of the Greeks; a philhellenist. Emerson.

Of or pertaining to philhellenism.

Love of Greece.

larly, one who supported them in their struggle for independence against the Turks; a philhellene.

A philhellenist.

A small British and American pond snail (Bulinus hypnorum).

a debauchee; a rake. It seldom doth happen, in any way of life, that a sluggard and a rakehell do not go together. Barrow.

Dissolute; wild; lewd; rakish. [Obs.] Spenser. B. Jonson.

Any one of numerous species of small white polished marine shells of the genus Olivella.

A seaport town in France. Rochelle powders. Same as Seidlitz powders. -- Rochelle salt (Chem.), the double tartrate of sodium and potassium, a white crystalline substance. It has a cooling, saline, slightly bitter taste and is employed as a mild purgative. It was discovered by Seignette, an apothecary of Rochelle, and…

The powan. [Prov. Eng.]

The shell of any marine mollusk.

The covering, or outside part, of a nut; as, a hazelnut shell.

, a. Having no shell. J. Burroughs.