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A fleecy cloud formation consisting of large whitish or grayish globular cloudlets with shaded portions, often grouped in flocks or rows.

A species of inflorescence; a catkin. The globular ament of a buttonwood. Coues.

ingly numerous. They differ from the nautili in having the margins of the septa very much lobed or plaited, and the siphuncle dorsal. Also called serpent stone, snake stone, and cornu Ammonis.

tion for each day of the year, drawn across the torrid zone on an artificial terrestrial globe.

meeting of two arcs of great circles, which mutually cut one another on the surface of a globe or sphere. -- Visual angle, the angle formed by two rays of light, or two straight lines drawn from the extreme points of an object to the center of the eye. -- For Angles of commutation, draught, incidence, reflection, ref…

A Linnæan order of aquatic birds swimming by means of webbed feet, as the duck, or of lobed feet, as the grebe. In this order were included the geese, ducks, auks, divers, gulls, petrels, etc.

apartment and leading into it, in which persons wait for audience; an outer chamber. See Lobby.

hical and anthological description of all empires and kingdoms . . . in this terrestrial globe. Wood.

Pertaining to the antipodes; situated on the opposite side of the globe.

Those who live on the side of the globe diametrically opposite.

sing neither a tail nor cheek pouches. The name is applied esp. to species of the genus Hylobates, and is sometimes used as a general term for all Quadrumana. The higher forms, the gorilla, chimpanzee, and ourang, are often called anthropoid apes or man apes.

legal sense, land can never pass as an appurtenance to land. Tomlins. Bouvier. Burrill. Globes . . . provided as appurtenances to astronomy. Bacon. The structure of the eye, and of its appurtenances. Reid.

An artificial pond, or a globe or tank (usually with glass sides), in which living specimens of aquatic animals or plants are kept.

A fabaceous tree of Brazil (Centrolobium robustum) having handsomely striped wood; --called also zebrawood.

A constellation west of Taurus, drawn on the celestial globe in the figure of a ram.

A genus of trilobites found in the Lower Silurian formation. See Illust. in Append.

A genus of crustaceans, containing the crawfish of fresh-water lobster of Europe, and allied species of western North America. See Crawfish.

first vertebra of the neck, articulating immediately with the skull, thus sustaining the globe of the head, whence the name.

An angular or ear-shaped lobe.

Having ear-shaped appendages or lobes; auriculate; as, auricled leaves.