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One of tree children born at the same birth. Wright.

According to the French notation, which is used upon the Continent generally and in the United States, the number expressed by a unit with twelve ciphers annexed; a million millions; according to the English notation, the number produced by involving a million to the third power, or the number represented by a unit wit…

A genus of liliaceous plants; the three-leaved nightshade; -- so called because all the parts of the plant are in threes.

A trill or shake. See Trill.

nivores of the genus Ictonyx allied to the weasels and skunks. [Written also zoril, and zorille.]

a picture, chiefly with distemper, or water colors, by which the oil is absorbed, and a brilliancy is imparted to the colors.

number of ways, but chiefly by the action of water on calcium carbide. Its light is very brilliant. Watts.

High, or shrill, in respect to some other sound; -- opposed to grave or low; as, an acute tone or accent.

Shrillness; high pitch; -- said of sounds.

e shells, the muscles which close the values of the shell are called adductor muscles. Verrill.

One who makes an affidavit. [U. S.] Burrill.

ration in writing, signed and made upon oath before an authorized magistrate. Bouvier. Burrill.

feats; athletic; combative; hence, strained; unnatural. As a scholar, he [Dr. Parr] was brilliant, but he consumed his power in agonistic displays. De Quincey.

hook or clasp. The feather of an ostrich, fastened in her turban by an agraffe set with brilliants. Sir W. Scott.

upon her divorce or legal separation from him, or during a suit for the same. Wharton. Burrill.

Ambulatory; fitted for walking. Verrill.

se of obtaining a decision of the court on some matter of law involved in it. Bouvier. Burrill. -- Amicable numbers (Math.), two numbers, each of which is equal to the sum of all the aliquot parts of the other.

on, but now largely manufactured from coal tar or nitrobenzene as a base from which many brilliant dyes are made.

Resembling man; -- applied especially to certain apes, as the ourang or gorilla. -- n.

ates, and is sometimes used as a general term for all Quadrumana. The higher forms, the gorilla, chimpanzee, and ourang, are often called anthropoid apes or man apes.