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A large European flounder (Rhombus maximus) highly esteemed as a food fish. It often weighs from thirty to forty pounds. Its color on the upper side is brownish with small roundish tubercles scattered over the surface. The lower, or blind, side is white. Called also bannock fluke.

An indefinite number more or less that twenty. Shak. Maximilian, upon twenty respects, could not have been the man. Bacon.

Indisputable; irrefragable; as, an uncontrollable maxim; an uncontrollable title. [R.] Swift. -- Un`con*trol"la*ble*ness, n. -- Un`con*trol"la*bly, adv.

uns manufactured by the firm of Vickers' Sons, at Sheffield, Eng. now included in Vickers-Maxim guns.

r instead of mercury, for ascertaining the precise temperature at which water attains its maximum density. This is about 39º Fahr., or 4º Centigrade; and from that point down to 32º Fahr., or 0º Centigrade, or the freezing point, it expands.

llen or risen markedly. In tabular form are shown changes of pressure and of temperature, maximum and minimum temperatures, and total rain for each weather station since the last issue, usually 12 hours.

ations are taken; of the third order when simpler work is done, as to record rainfall and maximum and minimum temperatures.

Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions. "I thus neglecting worldly ends." Shak. Many years it hath continued, standing by no other worldly mean but that one only hand which erected it. Hooker.