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The black-bellied plover.

One who squats; specifically, one who settles unlawfully upon land without a title. In the United States and Australia the term is sometimes applied also to a person who settles lawfully upon government land under permission and restrictions, before acquiring title. In such a tract, squatters and trespassers were toler…

Squat; dumpy. J. Burroughs.

Being under water, or beneath the surface of water; adapted for use under water; submarine; as, a subaqueous helmet.

Collared; having a torques, or distinct colored ring around the neck.

Having or wearing a torque, or neck chain.

f double curvature, which is measured in the osculating plane of the curve. -- Absolute equation (Astron.), the sum of the optic and eccentric equations. -- Absolute space (Physics), space considered without relation to material limits or objects. -- Absolute terms. (Alg.), such as are known, or which do not contain…

alances itself horizontally, having no dip. The aclinic line is also termed the magnetic equator. Prof. August.

An isolated point not upon a curve, but whose coördinates satisfy the equation of the curve so that it is considered as belonging to the curve.

The state or quality of being adequate, proportionate, or sufficient; a sufficiency for a particular purpose; as, the adequacy of supply to the expenditure.

A secondary respiratory tissue or modified periderm, found in many aquatic plants and distinguished by the large intercellular spaces.

p of terms involving different powers of the unknown quantity; adfected; as, an affected equation.

Any of numerous neuropterous insects of the genus Sialis or allied genera. They have aquatic larvæ, which are used for bait.

; as, algebraic characters; algebraical writings. Algebraic curve, a curve such that the equation which expresses the relation between the coördinates of its points involves only the ordinary operations of algebra; -- opposed to a transcendental curve.

A division of insects having aquatic larvæ.

ern, occiduous, or occasive. It is also northern or southern, when north or south of the equator.

The European ring ousel (Turdus torquatus).

The resolving of problems by reducing the conditions that are in them to equations.

A South American aquatic bird; the horned screamer or kamichi (Palamedea cornuta). See Kamichi.

An aquatic bird of the southern United States (Platus anhinga); the darter, or snakebird.