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Palmate, with the divisions separated but little more than halfway to the common center.

Palmate, with the divisions separated less than halfway to the common center.

after its secession. That adopted in November, 1860, had a green cabbage palmetto in the center of a white field; the final one, January, 1861, had a white palmetto in the center of a blue field and a white crescent in the upper left-hand corner.

One of several upright slender calcareous processes which surround the central part of the calicle of certain corals.

Vast plains in the central and southern part of the Argentine Republic in South America. The term is sometimes used in a wider sense for the plains extending from Bolivia to Southern Patagonia. Pampas cat (Zoöl.), a South American wild cat (Felis pajeros). It has oblique transverse bands of yellow or brown. It is about…

A fine plaited hat, made in Central America of the young leaves of a plant (Carludovica palmata).

oks, of the decisions, writings, and opinions of the old Roman jurists, made in the sixth century by direction of the emperor Justinian, and forming the leading compilation of the Roman civil law. Kent.

A picture presenting a view of objects in every direction, as from a central point.

ome zoölogists considered a distinct species. It is marked with large ringlike spots, the centers of which are darker than the color of the body.

An old Italian silver coin, worth about ten cents.

Having a minute papilla in the center of a larger elevation or depression.

of Turkish money, usually copper, the fortieth part of a piaster, or about one ninth of a cent.

ning to, or in conformity with, the practice of Paracelsus, a Swiss physician of the 15th century. Ferrand.

Deviating from circularity; changing the distance from a center. Paracentric curve (Math.), a curve having the property that, when its plane is placed vertically, a body descending along it, by the force of gravity, will approach to, or recede from, a fixed point or center, by equal distances in equal times; -- called…

nt on the earth's surface, and as seen from some other conventional point, as the earth's center or the sun. Annual parallax, the greatest value of the heliocentric parallax, or the greatest annual apparent change of place of a body as seen from the earth and sun; as, the annual parallax of a fixed star. -- Binocular…

A tract of ground kept in its natural state, about or adjacent to a residence, as for the preservation of game, for walking, riding, or the like. Chaucer. While in the park I sing, the listening deer Attend my passion, and forget to fear. Waller.

A follower of Paul of Samosata, a bishop of Antioch in the third century, who was deposed for denying the divinity of Christ.

One of a sect of Christian dualists originating in Armenia in the seventh century. They rejected the Old Testament and the part of the New.

e park or garden of a larger edifice, or united with other parts, and forming an angle or central feature of a large pile.

The ventral part of each side of the neural arch connecting with the centrum of a vertebra.