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A West African gazelle (Gazella redunca).

causing shipwreck. [Obs.] r. Taylor.

Of or pertaining to the Necrophaga; eating carrion. See Necrophagan.

Noctivagant.

A figure or polygon having nine sides and nine angles.

Any structure (as a fortification) or place with eight sides or angles. Regular octagon, one in which the sides are all equal, and the angles also are all equal.

Having eight sides and eight angles.

Feeding on serpents; -- said of certain birds and reptiles.

The diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal which is at right angles with the vertical axis.

Serving to break bones; bone-breaking.

A pagoda. [R.] "Or some queer pagod." Pope.

or silver coin, of various kinds and values, formerly current in India. The Madras gold pagoda was worth about three and a half rupees.

A funnel-shaped sleeve arranged to show the sleeve lining and an inner sleeve.

Agalmatolite; -- so called because sometimes carved by the Chinese into the form of pagodas. See Agalmatolite.

Eating all kinds of food.

The addition of a letter or syllable to the end of a word, as withouten for without.

Of, pertaining to, or constituting, a paragoge; added to the end of, or serving to lengthen, a word. Paragogic letters, in the Semitic languages, letters which are added to the ordinary forms of words, to express additional emphasis, or some change in the sense.

A companion; a match; an equal. [Obs.] Spenser. Philoclea, who indeed had no paragon but her sister. Sir P. Sidney.

lated to muscovite, but containing soda instead of potash. It is characteristic of the paragonite schist of the Alps.

Of or pertaining to Patagonia. -- n.