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on not necessarily parallel to the plane of deposition; -- usually produced by pressure. Basal cleavage, cleavage parallel to the base of a crystal, or to the plane of the lateral axes. -- Cell cleavage (Biol.), multiplication of cells by fission. See Segmentation. -- Cubuc cleavage, cleavage parallel to the faces of…

A genus of exinct marine reptiles, allied to the Mosasaurus. See Illust. in Appendix.

apparent stature, and having, therefore, a very thick sole. Cf. Chopine. In France the peasantry goes barefoot; and the middle sort . . . makes use of wooden clogs. Harvey. Clog almanac, a primitive kind of almanac or calendar, formerly used in England, made by cutting notches and figures on the four edges of a clog,…

l moth (Asopia costalis), often very destructive to clover hay. -- In clover, in very pleasant circumstances; fortunate. [Colloq.] - - Sweet clover. See Meliot.

Lofty in feeling; exultant; pround; upstart. Our painted fools and cockhorse peasantry. Marlowe.

g a concave surface above. This structure is characteristic of certain igneous rocks, as basalt, and is due to contraction in cooling.

; -- opposed to tragedy. With all the vivacity if comedy. Macaulay. Are come to play a pleasant comedy. Shak.

he streets, Crying confusion. Shak. It is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely. Ps. cxlvii. 1.

Endowed with fancy or imagination. [Obs.] He was . . . pleasantly conceited, and sharp of wit. Knolles.

which divide the sandstone contrast finely with the divisional planes which separate the basalt into pillars. Lyell.

e of a town or country. These sums, . . . and the forced contributions paid by luckless peasants, enabled him to keep his straggling troops together. Motley.

having acquired an unpleasant taste from the cork; as, a bottle of wine is corked.

Nasal catarrh.

y couch Shak. Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. Bryant.

as of a drawbridge or a scale beam. Money is the counterbalance to all other things purchasable by it. Locke.

Characterized by harshness or roughness; unpleasant; -- applied to things; as, a crabbed taste.

yllus, and allied genera. The males make chirping, musical notes by rubbing together the basal parts of the veins of the front wings.

ting principally of silicate of iron, and crystallizing in hexagonal prisms with perfect basal cleavage; -- so named from the Swedish mineralogist Cronstedt.

Zoöl.), an American bird (Quiscalus quiscula); -- called also purple grackle. -- Crow pheasant (Zoöl.), an Indian cuckoo; the common coucal. It is believed by the natives to give omens. See Coucal. -- Crow shrike (Zoöl.), any bird of the genera Gymnorhina, Craticus, or Strepera, mostly from Australia. -- Red-legged…

Covered with a crust; as, crustated basalt.