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Designating, or pertaining to, the process of telephotography.

larged form than is possible by the ordinary means, usually by a camera provided with a telephoto lens or mounted in place of the eyepiece of a telescope, so that the real or a magnified image falls on the sensitive plate.

A polariscope arranged to be attached to a telescope. Lockyer.

The hippopotamus. [R.]

Something requiring much care and expense and yielding little profit; any burdensome possession. [Slang]

Called; named; -- obsolete, except in archaic or humorous writings. [Spelt also yclept.] It is full fair to ben yclept madame. Chaucer. But come, thou goddess fair and free. In heaven ycleped Euphrosyne. Milton. Those charming little missives ycleped valentines. Lamb.

orrowed from the Greek Alpha, of the same form; and this was made from the first letter (Aleph, and itself from the Egyptian origin. The Aleph was a consonant letter, with a guttural breath sound that was not an element of Greek articulation; and the Greeks took it to represent their vowel Alpha with the ä sound, the P…

ernal passage of the ear. -- Acoustic telegraph, a telegraph making audible signals; a telephone. -- Acoustic vessels, brazen tubes or vessels, shaped like a bell, used in ancient theaters to propel the voices of the actors, so as to render them audible to a great distance.

A group of acalephs, including most of the larger jellyfishes; the Discophora.

rous, and was formerly used for cleansing the skin from freckles and tetters, and also in leprosy. Dana.

pupil and pink or blue iris. The term is also used of the lower animals, as white mice, elephants, etc.; and of plants in a whitish condition from the absence of chlorophyll. Amer. Cyc.

A stake or pole projecting from, or set up before, an alehouse, as a sign; an alepole. At the end was commonly suspended a garland, a bunch of leaves, or a "bush." [Obs.] Chaucer.

ng neither brain, skull, vertebræ, nor red blood. It forms the type of the group Acrania, Leptocardia, etc.

An animal of the barnacle tribe, of the genus Lepas, having a fleshy stem or peduncle; a goose barnacle. See Cirripedia.

, of the United States. The principal subgenus is Sorghum, including A. sorghum and A. halepensis, from which have been derived the Chinese sugar cane, the Johnson grass, the Aleppo grass, the broom corn, and the durra, or Indian millet. Several East Indian species, as A. nardus and A. schonanthus, yield fragrant oils…

ous mammals characterized by having the hoofs in a single series around the foot, as the elephant, rhinoceros, etc.

An elephant goad with a sharp spike and hook, resembling a short-handled boat hook. [India] Kipling.

ncrease its resistance several times. The anticoherer can be used in conjunction with a telephone.

The spiral tubular proboscis of lepidopterous insects. See Lepidoptera.

A lepidopterous insect, which in the larval state often travels in great multitudes from field to field, destroying grass, grain, and other crops. The common army worm of the northern United States is Leucania unipuncta. The name is often applied to other related species, as the cotton worm.