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Capable or admitting of being put back into a place.

The act of replacing.

Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Santalaceæ), of which the genus Santalum is the type, and which includes the buffalo nut and a few other North American plants, and many peculiar plants of the southern hemisphere.

Partaking of the nature and character of schorl; resembling schorl.

A kind of seaweed (Chorda Filum) having blackish cordlike fronds, often many feet long.

The quality of being self-complacent. J. Foster.

Satisfied with one's own character, capacity, and doings; self- satisfied.

See Schorl, Schorlaceous.

A suborder of Gephyrea, including those which have the body unarmed and the intestine opening anteriorly.

elieves in distress; that which cheers or consoles; relief. In business of mirth and of solace. Chaucer. The proper solaces of age are not music and compliments, but wisdom and devotion. Rambler.

The act of solacing, or the state of being solaced; also, that which solaces. [R.]

A lace for fastening stays.

Of or pertaining to stipules; resembling stipules; furnished with stipules; growing on stipules, or close to them; occupying the position of stipules; as, stipular glands and stipular tendrils.

ave scope to fashion the body as she thinks best; we have few well-shaped that are strait-laced. Locke.

Of or pertaining to a strobile or cone.

To replace. [R.] J. Bascom.

a simple thread lace worked upon a pillow with coarse thread; also, a similar lace made by machinery.

To remove across some space; to put in an opposite or another place. [R.] It [an obelisk] was transplaced . . . from the left side of the Vatican into a more eminent place. Bp. Wilkins.

To loose by undoing a lacing; as, to unlace a shoe.

Not placed.