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It is not good that man should be alone; let us make unto him an aid like unto himself. Tobit viii. 6.

A colorless, mobile, and very volatile liquid obtained from alcohol by certain of oxidation.

ns are practiced. The first of April, some do say, Is set apart for All Fools' Day. Poor Robin's Almanack (1760).

One of the Mohammedan nobility of Afghanistan and Scinde.

group of metameric hydrocarbons, C5H10, of the ethylene series. The colorless, volatile, mobile liquid commonly called amylene is a mixture of different members of the group.

One of the mobile male reproductive bodies in the antheridia of cryptogams.

Antihydrophobic.

A fabaceous tree of Brazil (Centrolobium robustum) having handsomely striped wood; --called also zebrawood.

ly having 14 spokes and 7 felloes; hence, a wheel of similar construction for use on automobiles, etc.

A genus of trilobites found in the Lower Silurian formation. See Illust. in Append.

A system (devised by Henri Pieper, a Belgian) of driving automobiles employing a gasoline engine and an auxiliary reversible dynamo. When there is an excess of power the dynamo is driven by the engine so as to charge a small storage battery; when there is a deficiency of power the dynamo reverses and acts as an auxilia…

Something characteristic; a mark; a token. Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. Shak.

colors (black and orange red) are like those of his coat of arms; -- called also golden robin.

A title or degree of nobility; originally, the possessor of a fief, who had feudal tenants under him; in modern times, in France and Germany, a nobleman next in rank below a count; in England, a nobleman of the lowest grade in the House of Lords, being next below a viscount.

The laurel tree (Laurus nobilis). Hence, in the plural, an honorary garland or crown bestowed as a prize for victory or excellence, anciently made or consisting of branches of the laurel. The patriot's honors and the poet's bays. Trumbull.

A species of laurel. (Laurus nobilis).

The fruit of the bay tree or Laurus nobilis.

friar of the Dominican order; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine.

A small kind of whale, of the genus Globicephalus, of several species. The most common is G. melas. Also sometimes applied to other whales of larger size.

rive in spring. The male is blue, with the breast reddish. It is related to the European robin. Pairy bluebird (Zoöl.), a brilliant Indian or East Indian bird of the genus Irena, of several species.