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A group of wading birds having the toes webbed, as the avocet.

Same as Linguatulina.

A bromide having a higher proportion of bromine than any other bromide of the same substance or series.

Any orthopterous insect of the family Phasmidæ, as a leaf insect or a stick insect.

An imido derivative of phthalic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance, C6H4.(CO)2NH, which has itself (like succinimide) acid properties, and forms a series of salts. Cf. Imido acid, under Imido.

A phyllostome.

A bromide containing more than one atom of bromine in the molecule.

A yellowish brown substance obtained by heating potassium in ammonia.

in which the balls are placed in the form of a triangle at spot. [Eng.] Altitude of a pyramid (Geom.), the perpendicular distance from the vertex to the plane of the base. -- Axis of a pyramid (Geom.), a straight line drawn from the vertex to the center of the base. -- Earth pyramid. (Geol.) See Earth pillars, under…

Of or pertaining to a pyramid; in the form of a a pyramid; pyramidical; as, pyramidal cleavage. The mystic obelisks stand up Triangular, pyramidal. Mrs. Browning.

Like a pyramid.

Of or pertaining to a pyramid; having the form of a pyramid; pyramidal. " A pyramidical rock." Goldsmith. "Gold in pyramidic plenty piled." Shenstone. -- Pyr`a*mid"ic*al*ly, adv. Pyr`a*mild"ic*al*ness, n.

The small pyramid which crowns or completes an obelisk.

A solid resembling a pyramid; -- called also pyramoid. Barlow.

The class of skin disease developed by the dartrous diathesis. See under Dartrous.

Half deisticsl; bordering on deism. S. Miller.

A demisemiquaver; a thirty-second note.

Half detached; partly distinct or separate. Semidetached house, one of two tenements under a single roof, but separated by a party wall. [Eng.]

Half of a diameter; a right line, or the length of a right line, drawn from the center of a circle, a sphere, or other curved figure, to its circumference or periphery; a radius.

An imperfect octave.