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The officer who presides over an assembly to preserve order, propose questions, regulate the proceedings, and declare the votes.

inthian and Composite entablature, and sometimes, less ornamented, in the Ionic and other orders; -- so called because of its arrangement at regulated distances.

One of the higher order of Turkish judges; also, a Turkish title of respect for a religious and learned man. [Written also moolah.]

xchanged for, one atom of hydrogen. Monad deme (Biol.), in tectology, a unit of the first order of individuality.

Any written or stamped promise, certificate, or order, as a government note, a bank note, a certificate of deposit, etc., which is payable in standard coined money and is lawfully current in lieu of it; in a comprehensive sense, any currency usually and lawfully employed in buying and selling.

The largest of the three orders into which the Fungi Imperfecti are divided, including various forms.

An order monishing a party complained against to obey under pain of the law. Shipley.

A Linnæan order of plants, having solitary flowers with united anthers, as in the genus Lobelia.

A Linnæan order of plants, including those which have only one style or stigma.

An order of lamellibranchs having but one muscle for closing the shell, as the oyster.

The state of being monstrous, or out of the common order of nature; that which is monstrous; a monster. South. A monstrosity never changes the name or affects the immutability of a species. Adanson (Trans. ).

Corms (stocks or colonies). For orders 2, 3, and 4 the term idorgan has been recently substituted. See Idorgan.

The order or mode of development of an organ or part.

One of an extinct order of reptiles, including Mosasaurus and allied genera. See Mosasauria.

An order of large, extinct, marine reptiles, found in the Cretaceous rocks, especially in America. They were serpentlike in form and in having loosely articulated and dilatable jaws, with large recurved tteth, but they had paddlelike feet. Some of them were over fifty feet long. They are, essentially, fossil sea serpen…

An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant. Mozley & W.

An extract of quassia licorice, fraudulently used by brewers in order to economize malt and hops. Craig. Hard multum, a preparation made from Cocculus Indicus, etc., used to impart an intoxicating quality to beer.

An order or subclass of cryptogamous plants; the mosses. See Moss, and Cryptogamia.

it can be fixed in an erect position on the bridge of a violin, or similar instrument, in order to deaden or soften the tone.

the Doric corice, in the same situation as the modillion of the Corinthian and Composite orders. See Illust. of Gutta. Oxf. Gloss.