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A name in the East Indies and the Indian islands for all ardent spirits. Arrack is often distilled from a fermented mixture of rice, molasses, and palm wine of the cocoanut tree or the date palm, etc.

A west Indian plant of the genus Maranta, esp. M. arundinacea, now cultivated in many hot countries. It said that the Indians used the roots to neutralize the venom in wounds made by poisoned arrows.

which each term is greater than the preceding. -- Ascending signs, signs east of the meridian.

pted between the first point of Aries and that point of the equator that comes to the meridian with the star; -- expressed either in degrees or in time. -- Oblique ascension (Astron.), an arc of the equator, intercepted between the first point of Aries and that point of the equator which rises together with a star, in…

en the time of the rising or setting of a body and six o'clock, or six hours from its meridian passage.

The structure which unites together the ascidiozooids in a compound ascidian.

Shaped like an ascidian.

One of the individual members of a compound ascidian. See Ascidioidea.

A genus of simple ascidians, which formerly included most of the known species. It is sometimes used as a name for the Ascidioidea, or for all the Tunicata.

Shining; radiant.

graphic projection of the sphere on the plane of a great circle, as the equator, or a meridian; a planisphere. Whewell.

Inability to transmit radiant; impermeability to heat. Tyndall.

from whom all individual atmans arise. This sense is a European excrescence on the East Indian thought.

A cavity in ascidians into which the intestine and generative ducts open, and which also receives the water from the gills. See Ascidioidea.

An arc of the horizon intercepted between the meridian of the place and a vertical circle passing through the center of any object; as, the azimuth of a star; the azimuth or bearing of a line surveying.

imuthal error of a transit instrument, its deviation in azimuth from the plane of the meridian.

e quadruped (Sus, or Porcus, babirussa) of the East Indies, sometimes domesticated; the Indian hog. Its upper canine teeth or tusks are large and recurved.

The ring of the fruit of several East Indian species of acacia; neb-neb. It contains gallic acid and tannin, and is used for dyeing drab.

creases the difficulty of traversing the country, whence the name, first given by the Canadian French, Mauvaises Terres (bad lands).

A two-masted Arab or Indian trading vessel, used in Indian Ocean.