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phere upon the elastic top of a metallic box (shaped like a watch) from which the air has been exhausted. An index shows the variation of pressure.

ngles; -- used in compounds; as, right- angled, many-angled, etc. The thrice three-angled beechnut shell. Bp. Hall.

ss of compounds which may be regarded as amides in which more or less of the hydrogen has been replaced by phenyl.

longing to the phenylamines. It may be regarded as ammonia in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced by the radical phenyl. It is a colorless, oily liquid, originally obtained from indigo by distillation, but now largely manufactured from coal tar or nitrobenzene as a base from which many brilliant dyes are made.…

Equal; equivalent; adequate. [Archaic] Had the valor of his soldiers been answerable, he had reached that year, as was thought, the utmost bounds of Britain. Milton.

A beetle which feeds on flowers.

A fluid vaccine obtained by growing a bacterium (Bacterium anthracis) in beef broth. It is used to immunize animals, esp. cattle.

A genus of small beetles, several of which, in the larval state, are very destructive to woolen goods, fur, etc. The common "museum pest" is A. varius; the carpet beetle is A. scrophulariæ. The larvæ are commonly confounded with moths.

ould probably have died by the hand of the executioner, if indeed the executioner had not been anticipated by the populace. Macaulay.

The number corresponding to a logarithm. The word has been sometimes, though rarely, used to denote the complement of a given logarithm; also the logarithmic cosine corresponding to a given logarithmic sine. -- An`ti*log`a*rith"mic, a.

er contrariety unto Christ's judgment, a more perfect antipodes to all that hath hitherto been gospel Hammond.

In a vertical line. The anchor in apeak, when the cable has been sufficiently hove in to bring the ship over it, and the ship is them said to be hove apeak. [Spelt also apeek.]

To shorten by aphesis. These words . . . have been aphetized. New Eng. Dict.

Feeding upon aphides, or plant lice, as do beetles of the family Coccinellidæ.

Belonging to bees.

Of or relating to bees.

A place where bees are kept; a stand or shed for bees; a beehouse.

Rearing of bees for their honey and wax.

A student of bees. [R.] Emerson.

The scientific or systematic study of honey bees.