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electricity, sound, vibration, or the like, or which transmits them with difficulty; an insulator; as, wool is a nonconductor of heat; glass and dry wood are nonconductors of electricity.

In Greenland, an insular hill or mountain surrounded by an ice sheet.

Copper wire with a strong but light insulation, used in wiring houses, etc.

ngle body or mass of building, contained within simple walls and a single roof, whether insulated, as in the park or garden of a larger edifice, or united with other parts, and forming an angle or central feature of a large pile.

Of or pertaining to the Peloponnesus, or southern peninsula of Greece. -- n.

A combining form denoting five; as, pentacapsular; pentagon.

Any detached mass of masonry, whether insulated or supporting one side of an arch or lintel, as of a bridge; the piece of wall between two openings.

The general and popular term for a firm, upright, insulated support for a superstructure; a pier, column, or post; also, a column or shaft not supporting a superstructure, as one erected for a monument or an ornament. Jacob set a pillar upon her grave. Gen. xxxv. 20. The place . . . vast and proud, Supported by a hundr…

Proconsulate.

Basilarchia (formerly Limenitis) as, the banded purple (B. arthemis). See Illust. under Ursula.

A combining form meaning four, four times, fourfold; as, quadricapsular, having four capsules.

A small channel, deeply recessed in proportion to its width, used to insulate and give relief to a convex rounded molding. Quirk molding, a bead between two quirks.

Hence, to look or front toward; to face. [Obs.] It is peninsula which regardeth the mainland. Sandys. That exceedingly beatiful seat, on the assregarding the river. Evelyn.

he conductivity, -- good conductors having a small resistance, while poor conductors or insulators have a very high resistance. The unit of resistance is the ohm. Resistance box (Elec.), a rheostat consisting of a box or case containing a number of resistance coils of standard values so arranged that they can be combin…

cluded; quiet; as, a retired life; a person of retired habits. A retired part of the peninsula. Hawthorne.

es, headache, and vertigo, and is usually fatal. Called also multiple, disseminated, or insular, sclerosis.

, especially those of the family Mactridæ, as the common American species. (Mactra, or Spisula, solidissima); -- called also beach clam, and surf clam.

A rocky isle; an insulated rock. [Scot.]

Any butterfly of the tribe Nymphalidi, or genus Basilarchia, as the ursula and the viceroy.

es with electric ignition, a plug, screwed into the cylinder head, having through it an insulated wire which is connected with the induction coil or magneto circuit on the outside, and forms, with another terminal on the base of the plug, a spark gap inside the cylinder.