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Not cut; not separated or divided by cutting or otherwise; -- said especially of books, periodicals, and the like, when the leaves have not been separated by trimming in binding.

Occurring once in every period of eleven years; undecennial. An undecennary account laid before Parliament. E. Stiles.

Occurring or observed every eleventh year; belonging to, or continuing, a period of eleven years; undecennary; as, an undecennial festival.

nd; to begin to perform; to set about; to attempt. To second, or oppose, or undertake The perilous attempt. Milton.

ious social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.

e group of mammals including all those that have hoofs. It comprises the Artiodactyla and Perissodactyla.

Having one valve; as, a univalve shell or pericarp.

The quality or state of being in peril; absence of safety; insecurity. Bacon.

ts. It is about 1,800,000,000 miles from the sun, about 36,000 miles in diameter, and its period of revolution round the sun is nearly 84 of our years.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a subdivision of the Trenton Period of the Lower Silurian, characterized in the State of New York by beds of shale.

; the utmost harmony; the utmost misery or happiness. He shall answer . . . to his utmost peril. Shak. Six or seven thousand is their utmost power. Shak.

Intermission of a stated employment, procedure, or office; a period of intermission; rest; leisure. It was not in his nature, however, at least till years had chastened it, to take any vacation from controversy. Palfrey. Hence, specifically: -(a) (Law)

n the fourteenth century as fur for garments, and frequently mentioned by writers of that period in describing the costly dresses of kings, nobles, and prelates. It is represented in heraldry by a series of small shields placed close together, and alternately white and blue. Fairholt. No vair or ermine decked his garme…

tle valve; a valvule; especially, one of the pieces which compose the outer covering of a pericarp.

rs (Astron.), fixed stars which vary in their brightness, usually in more or less uniform periods.

il sponges belonging to Ventriculites and allied genera, characteristic of the Cretaceous period.

nce from the sun of about 67,000,000 miles. Its diameter is 7,700 miles, and its sidereal period 224.7 days. As the morning star, it was called by the ancients Lucifer; as the evening star, Hesperus.

iginal instinct, vergeth towards him as its center. Barrow. I find myself verging to that period of life which is to be labor and sorrow. Swift.

like a worm; especially, resembling the motion or track of a worm; as, the vermicular, or peristaltic, motion of the intestines. See Peristaltic. "A twisted form vermicular." Cowper.

ner of a worm; continuation of motion from one part to another; as, the vermiculation, or peristaltic motion, of the intestines.