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A division of pulmonate mollusks having the breathing organ situated on the neck, as in the common snail.

Any arachnid that breathes by lunglike organs, as the spiders and scorpions. Also used adjectively.

Of or pertaining to the lungs; affecting the lungs; pulmonic. Pulmonary artery. See the Note under Artery.

An extensive division, or sub-class, of hermaphrodite gastropods, in which the mantle cavity is modified into an air- breathing organ, as in Helix, or land snails, Limax, or garden slugs, and many pond snails, as Limnæa and Planorbis.

Pertaining to the Pulmonata. -- n.

same as Pulmonate (a).

A salt of pyroantimonic acid.

A summons; a citation. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the lungs.

A salt of sulphantimonic acid.

A division of Arachnida including those spiders which have four lungs, or pulmonary sacs. It includes the bird spiders (Mygale) and the trapdoor spiders. See Mygale.

A monastery or society of persons of either sex, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy; also, the monastic building or buildings.

ice or dignity. Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy. Burke.

mitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch.

s thou shalt be accessary. Shak. Amongst many secondary and accessary causes that support monarchy, these are not of least reckoning. Milton.

od," or collection of stamens in a bundle; -- used in composition, as in the class names, Monadelphia, Diadelphia, etc.

ustered filaments; -- said of stamens; as, adelphous stamens. Usually in composition; as, monadelphous. Gray.

ion to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.

Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison.

n by some authors anachoret.] Our Savior himself . . . did not choose an anchorite's or a monastic life, but a social and affable way of conversing with mortals. Boyle.