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Having three knots or nodes; having three points from which a leaf may shoot; as, a trinodal stem.

nd entertainment of strangers and pilgrims, and for the relief of paupers. [Called also Xenodocheion.]

Reception of strangers; hospitality. [R.]

A small insectivorous mammal (Solenodon paradoxus), allied to the moles, found only in Hayti.

fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, and ponderable.

to ambulacra; avenuelike; as, the ambulacral ossicles, plates, spines, and suckers of echinoderms.

One of the radical zones of echinoderms, along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays.

iety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals, esp. agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites. When the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava.

ondition of decreased irritability of a nerve in the region of the positive electrode or anode on the passage of a current of electricity through it. Foster.

ve element, or the element which, in electro- chemical decompositions, is evolved at the anode; -- opposed to cation. Faraday.

Nodding; as, annuent muscles (used in nodding).

ding the annelids and allied groups; sometimes made to include also the helminths and echinoderms. [Written also Annuloidea.]

A medicine to alleviate pain; an anodyne. [R.]

The stipe when developed into an internode between calyx and corolla, as in the Pink family. Gray.

One of the nodes or joints, as in cane and maize.

other, grandfather and grandmother, etc., are in the line direct ascending. -- Ascending node having, that node of the moon or a planet wherein it passes the ecliptic to proceed northward. It is also called the northern node. Herschel. -- Ascending series. (Math.) (a) A series arranged according to the ascending powe…

A genus of echinoderms.

A class of Echinodermata including the true starfishes. The rays vary in number and always have ambulacral grooves below. The body is starshaped or pentagonal.

bar of a balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended. The doubtful beam long nods from side to side. Pope.

To nod, or make a sign with the head or hand. [Archaic] Drayton.