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Of or pertaining to Polynesia (the islands of the eastern and central Pacific), or to the Polynesians.

The principle of succession in royal families, especially among the Eastern Roman emperors, by which a younger son, if born after the accession of his father to the throne, was preferred to an elder son who was not so born. Sir T. Palgrave.

eological term applied to the relation of the Holy Spirit to the Father and the Son, the Eastern Church affirming that the Spirit proceeds from the Father only, and the Western Church that the Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son. Shipley. -- Procession week, a name for Rogation week, when processions were made…

A credence table; -- so called by the Eastern or Greek Church.

nd fat; -- a butcher's term. -- On the quarter (Naut.), in a direction between abeam and astern; opposite, or nearly opposite, a vessel's quarter. -- Quarter aspect. (Astrol.) Same as Quadrate. -- Quarter back (Football), the player who has position next behind center rush, and receives the ball on the snap back. -…

Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; -- said of waves or any moving object.

ak, yellow oak, dyer's oak, or quercitron oak, a large forest tree growing from Maine to eastern Texas.

a quince tree or shrub. Japan quince (Bot.), an Eastern Asiatic shrub (Cydonia, formerly Pyrus, Japonica) and its very fragrant but inedible fruit. The shrub has very showy flowers, usually red, but sometimes pink or white, and is much grown for ornament. -- Quince curculio (Zoöl.), a small gray and yellow curculio (C…

An excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse.

To learn by reading. I have read of an Eastern king who put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence. Swift.

uminant of the genus Rangifer, of the Deer family, found in the colder parts of both the Eastern and Western hemispheres, and having long irregularly branched antlers, with the brow tines palmate.

r, as a chapel; also, in an apsidal church, all the space beyond the line of the back or eastern face of the altar.

A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter between or on the small pastern and the great pastern bones. J. H. Walsh.

patch of red feathers having metallic reflections; esp., the common humming bird of the Eastern United States (Trochilus colubris).

established church of the Russian empire. It forms a portion, by far the largest, of the Eastern Church and is governed by the Holy Synod. The czar is the head of the church, but he has never claimed the right of deciding questions of theology and dogma.

sopher. At his birth a star, Unseen before in heaven, proclaims him come, And guides the Eastern sages. Milton.

An antelope (Saiga Tartarica) native of the plains of Siberia and Eastern Russia. The male has erect annulated horns, and tufts of long hair beneath the eyes and ears.

he genus Salmo and allied genera. The common salmon (Salmo salar) of Northern Europe and Eastern North America, and the California salmon, or quinnat, are the most important species. They are extensively preserved for food. See Quinnat.

rs of the genus Sphyrapicus, especially the yellow-bellied woodpecker (S. varius) of the Eastern United States. They are so named because they puncture the bark of trees and feed upon the sap. The name is loosely applied to other woodpeckers. -- Sap tube (Bot.), a vessel that conveys sap.

rculus savanna) of which several varieties are found on grassy plains from Alaska to the Eastern United States. -- Savanna wattle (Bot.), a name of two West Indian trees of the genus Citharexylum.