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A genus of marine gastropods, including many species of limpets. The shell has the form of a flattened cone. The common European limpet (Patella vulgata) is largely used for food.

Resembling a limpet of the genus Patella.

In speaking or reading aloud, a brief arrest or suspension of voice, to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and their parts.

A coarse pisolitic limestone. See Pisolite.

mineral occurring in radiated or fibrous crystalline masses. It is a hydrous silicate of lime and soda.

the two or more bony or cartilaginous pieces of the vertebrate skeleton to which the fore limbs are articulated; the shoulder girdle. In man it consists of two bones, the scapula and clavicle, on each side. -- Pectorial cross (Eccl.), a cross worn on the breast by bishops and abbots, and sometimes also by canons. --…

to fasten the parts of with pegs; as, to peg shoes; to confine with pegs; to restrict or limit closely. I will rend an oak And peg thee in his knotty entrails. Shak.

Transparent; clear; limpid; translucent; not opaque. "Pellucid crystal." Dr. H. More. "Pellucid streams." Wordsworth.

the two or more bony or cartilaginous pieces of the vertebrate skeleton to which the hind limbs are articulated. When fully ossified, the arch usually consists of three principal bones on each side, the ilium, ischium, and pubis, which are often closely united in the adult, forming the innominate bone. See Innominate b…

To pen; to confine. [R.] ended within the limits . . . of Greece. Udall.

Having the form of, or a structure modified from, a pentadactyl limb.

s of extinct Paleozoic brachiopods, often very abundant in the Upper Silurian. Pentamerus limestone (Geol.), a Silurian limestone composed largely of the shells of Pentamerus.

e currency, public ownership and operation of railroads, telegraphs, etc., an income tax, limitation in ownership of land, etc.

A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a division of time, as a series of years, months, or days, in which something is completed, and ready to recommence and go on in the same order; as, the period of the sun, or the…

A titanate of lime occurring in octahedral or cubic crystals. [Written also Perovskite.]

Duration without limitations as to time.

To observe; to examine with care. [R.] Myself I then perused, and limb by limb Surveyed. Milton.

The distal segment of the hind limb of vertebrates, including the tarsus and foot.

A liquid resembling camphene, obtained by treating turpentine hydrochloride with lime. [Written also peucyl.]

A hydrous arsenate of lime, usually occurring in silky fibers of a white or grayish color.