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pertaining to that part of the base of the cranium between the basioccipital and the presphenoid, which usually ossifies separately in the embryo or in the young, and becomes a part of the sphenoid in the adult.

Consisting, or made, of the wood or bark of the beech; belonging to the beech. "Plain beechen vessels." Dryden.

The Centaurea behen, or saw-leaved centaury.

old p. p. of Bequeath. [Obs.] Chaucer.

or relating to birch. He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower. Sir W. Scott.

The state of being blithe. Chaucer.

ry captain, named Caldwell, that no cock could be truly game unless the mother was a blue hen, whence Blue Hen's Chickens came to be a nickname for the people of Delaware.

-- Bur"schen*schaft`ler (#), -schaf`ter (#), n.

See Burden. [Archaic]

A plan proposed to the Pope in 1891 by P. P. Cahensly, a member of the German parliament, to divide the foreign-born population of the United States, for ecclesiastical purposes, according to European nationalities, and to appoint bishops and priests of like race and speaking the same language as the majority of the me…

A gymnasium; esp. one for light physical exercise by women and children.

Of or pertaining to calisthenics.

The science, art, or practice of healthful exercise of the body and limbs, to promote strength and gracefulness; light gymnastics.

See Calisthenic, Calisthenics.

One of a series of substances C10H16, resembling camphor, regarded as modified terpenes.

A chinese reed instrument, with tubes, blown by the mouth.

ted, for the trimimg of ladies' dresses, for embroidery and fringes, and for the weft of chenille rugs.

An order of birds, including the swans, ducks, geese, flamingoes and screamers.

erly obtained by distillation of colophony. It is regarded as a polymeric form of terebenthene. Called also diterebene.

To contain; to embrace; to include; as, the states comprehended in the Austrian Empire. Who hath . . . comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure. Is. xl. 12.