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An electric wave meter.

A back chamber; especially, that part of the naos, or cella, farthest from the main entrance, sometimes having an entrance of its own, and often used as a treasury.

See the Note under Dome, 4.

The pagan lands; pagans, collectively; paganism. [R.]

The office or jurisdiction of a patriarch; patriarchate. [R.]

Divination by examining the soles of the feet.

An instrument for including the number of steps in walking, and so ascertaining the distance passed over. It is usually in the form of a watch; an oscillating weight by the motion of the body causes the index to advance a certain distance at each step.

Pertaining to, or measured by, a pedometer.

Moved or worked by the action of the foot or feet on a pedal or treadle.

Peerage; also, a lordship. [Obs.]

A coral, or corallum; also, one of the coral-like structure made by bryozoans and hydroids.

The place, office, or dignity of the pope; papal dignity. Shak.

That part of a crustacean behind the cephalothorax; -- more commonly called abdomen.

The quality or state of being predominant; superiority; ascendency; prevalence; predomination. The predominance of conscience over interest. South.

Predominance. Bacon.

cendency over others; superior in strength, influence, or authority; prevailing; as, a predominant color; predominant excellence. Those help . . . were predominant in the king's mind. Bacon. Foul subordination is predominant. Shak.

In a predominant manner.

ave controlling power or influence; to prevail; to rule; to have the mastery; as, love predominated in her heart. [Certain] rays may predominate over the rest. Sir. I. Newton.

The act or state of predominating; ascendency; predominance. W. Browne.

The jurisdiction, sovereignty, rank, or estate of a prince. Thrones, princedoms, powers, dominions, I reduce. Milton.