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In the Christian church, a construction of stone, wood, or other material for the celebration of the Holy Eucharist; the communion table.

That group of vertebrates which develops in its embryonic life the envelope called the amnion. It comprises the reptiles, the birds, and the mammals.

One of the classes of vertebrates.

A league of states of ancient Greece; esp. the celebrated confederation known as the Amphictyonic Council. Its object was to maintain the common interests of Greece.

elet. Its body is pointed at both ends. It is the lowest and most generalized of the vertebrates, having neither brain, skull, vertebræ, nor red blood. It forms the type of the group Acrania, Leptocardia, etc.

t measured from the starting point or position of equilibrium; -- applied especially to vibratory movements.

The division of Vertebrata in which no allantois is developed. It includes amphibians, fishes, and lower forms.

The annual return of the day on which any notable event took place, or is wont to be celebrated; as, the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

A division of the Invertebrata, nearly equivalent to the Articulata. It includes the Arthoropoda and Anarthropoda. By some zoölogists it is applied to the former only.

The festival celebrated (March 25th) by the Church of England, of Rome, etc., in memory of the angel's announcement, on that day; Lady Day.

of Constantinople, whose business it was to inform the people of the festivals to be celebrated.

To celebrate with anthems. [Poet.] Sweet birds antheming the morn. Keats.

s the model of manly grace and beauty; -- called also Phébus. The Apollo Belvedere, a celebrated statue of Apollo in the Belvedere gallery of the Vatican palace at Rome, esteemed of the noblest representations of the human frame.

s or plants or their systems of organs are assumed to have been constructed; as, the vertebrate archetype.

Of or pertaining to Archimedes, a celebrated Greek philosopher; constructed on the principle of Archimedes' screw; as, Archimedean drill, propeller, etc. Archimedean screw, or Archimedes' screw, an instrument, said to have been invented by Archimedes, for raising water, formed by winding a flexible tube round a cylinde…

A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal.

One of a sect in the primitive church, who celebrated the Lord's Supper with bread and cheese, alleging that the first oblations of men not only of the fruit of the earth, but of their flocks. [Gen. iv. 3, 4.]

rinciple of the relay. It produces much clearer and louder tones than does the ordinary vibrating disk reproducer.

aly before the restoration of learning; so denominated from Averroes, or Averrhoes, a celebrated Arabian philosopher. He held the doctrine of monopsychism.

The class of Vertebrata that includes the birds.