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nding only as a matter of honor; often, specif., such an agreement among the heads of industrial or merchantile enterprises, the terms of which could not be included and enforced in a legal contract.

Belonging to earth; terrestrial. [Obs.] Bailey.

A worshiper of fire; a Zoroastrian; a Parsee.

el; -- a term applied by Turks to disbelievers in the Mohammedan religion, especially Christrians. Byron.

ose material, etc. Glaciated rocks, rocks whose surfaces have been smoothed, furrowed, or striated, by the action of ice.

round model of the world; a spherical representation of the earth or heavens; as, a terrestrial or celestial globe; -- called also artificial globe.

a center of attraction; esp., the tendency of a body toward the center of the earth; terrestrial gravitation.

Of or pert. to Hallstatt, Austria, or the Hallstatt civilization. -- Hallstatt, or Hallstattian, civilization, a prehistoric civilization of central Europe, variously dated at from 1000 to 1500 b. c. and usually associated with the Celtic or Alpine race. It was characterized by expert use of bronze, a knowledge of iron…

Half of the terrestrial globe, or a projection of the same in a map or picture.

See Legislature, Austria, Prussia.

A member of the highest rank of nobility in Germany and Austria, corresponding to the British duke.

A place set apart for equestrian and chariot races.

toward constitutional government, entered into by Alexander I. of Russia, Francis I. of Austria, and Frederic William III. of Prussia, at Paris, on the 26th of September, 1815, and subsequently joined by all the sovereigns of Europe, except the pope and the king of England. -- Holy bark. See Cascara sagrada. -- Holy…

ame stock; a tribe; especially, a noble family or an illustrious race; as, the house of Austria; the house of Hanover; the house of Israel. The last remaining pillar of their house, The one transmitter of their ancient name. Tennyson.

isproportion to any office or purpose; inadequacy; competency; as, the inequality of terrestrial things to the wants of a rational soul. South.

formed in London in 1864, which has for object the promotion of the interests of the industrial classes of all nations.

septa; as, the interseptal spaces or zones, between the transparent, or septal, zones in striated muscle; the interseptal chambers of a shell, or of a seed vessel.

Industrial Workers of the World (the name of two American labor organizations, one of which advocates syndicalism).

l or Borneo camphor. -- Japan clover, or Japan pea (Bot.), a cloverlike plant (Lespedeza striata) from Eastern Asia, useful for fodder, first noticed in the Southern United States about 1860, but now become very common. During the Civil War it was called variously Yankee clover and Rebel clover. -- Japan earth. See C…

A small copper coin formerly used in South Germany; also, a small Austrian copper coin. [Written also kreuzer.]