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Viewing all; taking a view of the whole. See under Camera.

One of the divisions of Flagellata, including the monads and allied forms.

A West African long-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus ruber); the red monkey.

A purchase with five pulleys. [R.]

Containing five seeds.

A composition consisting of five verses.

Having, or arranged in, five vertical ranks, as the leaves of an apple tree or a cherry tree.

Same as Linguatulina.

Having five columns in front; -- said of a temple or portico in classical architecture. -- n.

The winged cap of Mercury; also, a broad-brimmed, low-crowned hat worn by Greeks and Romans.

, resembling the phenakistoscope, and illustrating the same principle; -- called also phantasmascope.

y or airy appearance; sometimes, an optical illusion; a phantom; a dream. They be but phantasms or apparitions. Sir W. Raleigh.

A phantasm.

Fig.: A medley of figures; illusive images. "This mental phantasmagoria." Sir W. Scott.

Of, relating to, or resembling phantasmagoria; phantasmagoric.

Of or pertaining to phantasmagoria; phantasmagorial. Hawthorne.

See Phantasmagoria.

Pertaining to, of the nature of, or resembling, a phantasm; spectral; illusive.

See Phantascope.

Phantasmal. Dr. H. More.