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Any band or body of warriors. With him the cohort bright Of watchful cherubim. Milton.

A perennial American herb (Caulophyllum thalictroides), whose roostock is used in medicine; -- also called pappoose root. The name is sometimes also given to the Cimicifuga racemosa, and to two species of Actæa, plants of the Crowfoot family.

A Central and South American pinnate-leaved palm (Attalea cohune), the very large and hard nuts of which are turned to make fancy articles, and also yield an oil used as a substitute for coconut oil.

A substance, as salt, ammonium chloride, etc., which crystallizes with water of crystallization only at low temperatures, or below the freezing point of water. F. Guthrie.

A device for restoring a coherer to its normal condition after it has been affected by an electric wave, a process usually accomplished by some method of tapping or shaking, or by rotation of the coherer.

A solid bounded by twelve quadrilateral faces. It is a hemihedral form of the isometric system, allied to the tetrahedron.

A glass vessel or bottle with a large body and small neck, inclosed in wickerwork.

Pertaining to, or in relation with, both dermal and hæmal structures; as, the dermohæmal spines or ventral fin rays of fishes.

A compound containing in the molecule two atoms of hydrogen united with some other element or radical. [Obs.]

Incoherent. [R.]

Daughters. [Obs.]

of Draw. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One of the principal names by which God is designated in the Hebrew Scriptures.

e writer, or one of the writers, of the passages of the Old Testament, notably those of Elohim instead of Jehovah, as the name of the Supreme Being; -- distinguished from Jehovist. S. Davidson.

Relating to Elohim as a name of God; -- said of passages in the Old Testament.

A symbol of the solar deity, found on monuments exhumed in Babylon, Nineveh, etc.

See Hydrofluoric.

An exclamation of abhorrence or contempt; poh; fle. Shak.

A Buddhist priest. See Fo.

Pertaining to the stomach and liver; hepatogastric; as, the gastrohepatic, or lesser, omentum.