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A coral island or islands, consisting of a belt of coral reef, partly submerged, surrounding a central lagoon or depression; a lagoon island.

Lifting up; raising; as, an attollent muscle. Derham.

Self-worship. Farrar.

One who battologizes.

To keep repeating needlessly; to iterate. Sir T. Herbert.

A needless repetition of words in speaking or writing. Milton.

A white crystalline powder used as an intestinal antiseptic; beta-naphthol benzoate.

A seaport city in the west of England. Bristol board, a kind of fine pasteboard, made with a smooth but usually unglazed surface. -- Bristol brick, a brick of siliceous matter used for polishing cultery; -- originally manufactured at Bristol. -- Bristol stone, rock crystal, or brilliant crystals of quartz, found in t…

One versed in the science of foods.

The science of aliments. Dunglison.

An aërolite. [R.]

A treatise upon thunder.

The temple of Jupiter, at Rome, on the Mona Capitolinus, where the Senate met. Comes Cæsar to the Capitol to-morrow Shak.

Of or pertaining to the Capitol in Rome. "Capitolian Jove." Macaulay. Capitoline games (Antiq.), annual games instituted at Rome by Camillus, in honor of Jupter Capitolinus, on account of the preservation of the Capitol from the Gauls; when reinstituted by Domitian, arter a period of neglect, they were held every fifth…

One of the Cestoidea.

Of or pertaining to cetology.

One versed in cetology.

The description or natural history of cetaceous animals.

A variety of andalusite; -- called also macle. The tesselated apperance of a cross section is due to the symmetrical arrangement of impurities in the crystal.

A treatise on Christ; that department of theology which treats of the personality, attributes, or life of Christ.