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A term proposed by Endlicher to include all plants with an axis containing vascular tissue and with foliage.

s of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the term correspondence school may be used to include any educational institution or department for instruction by correspondence, as in a university or other educational bodies, but the term is commonly applied to various educational institutions organized on a commercial ba…

To conceal; to include or involve darkly. There is all this, and more, that lies naturally couched under this allegory. L'Estrange.

not belonging to their owner, to lie down and rise up to feed, -- such time being held to include a day and night at the least. Blackstone.

One of the side scenes of the stage in a theater, or the space included between the side scenes.

To extend over; to be sufficient for; to comprehend, include, or embrace; to account for or solve; to counterbalance; as, a mortgage which fully covers a sum loaned on it; a law which covers all possible cases of a crime; receipts than do not cover expenses.

f rocks found there. Cumbrian system (Geol.), the slate or graywacke system of rocks, now included in the Cambrian or Silurian system; -- so called because most prominent at Cumberland.

A yard, courtyard, or piece of ground, included within the fence surrounding a dwelling house. Burrill.

That part of a pedestal included between the base and the cornice (or surbase); the die. See Illust. of Column. Hence:

A native of Damaraland, German Southwest Africa. The Damaras include an important and warlike Bantu tribe, and the Hill Damaras, who are Hottentots and mixed breeds hostile to the Bantus.

A small fresh-water etheostomoid fish. The group includes numerous genera and species, all of them American. See Etheostomoid.

The division of Cephalopoda which includes the squids, cuttlefishes, and others having ten arms or tentacles; -- called also Decapoda. [Written also Decacera.] See Dibranchiata.

The order of Crustacea which includes the shrimps, lobsters, crabs, etc.

The number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content.

The division of insects which includes the earwigs (Forticulidæ).

The tribe of aquatic Amphibia which includes Amphiuma, Menopoma, etc. They have permanent gill openings, but no external gills; -- called also Cryptobranchiata. [Written also Derotrema.]

The division of Tunicata which includes the Salpæ. See Salpa.

e of fishes. The various strata of this age compose the Devonian formation or system, and include the old red sandstone of Great Britain. They contain, besides plants and numerous invertebrates, the bony portions of many large and remarkable fishes of extinct groups. See the Diagram under Geology.

eldspar and pyroxene with magnetic iron; -- often limited to rocks pretertiary in age. It includes part of what was early called greenstone.

The octave, or interval which includes all the tones of the diatonic scale.