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See Tarantula.

A current, as of electricity, developed, or set in motion, by the action of heat.

e like; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice. The roaring torrent is deep and wide. Longfellow.

Of or pertaining to a torrent; having the character of a torrent; caused by a torrent . [R.]

odies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent diamond; -- opposed to Ant: opaque. "Transparent elemental air." Milton.

An office and mass for the dead on the thirtieth day after death or burial. "Their trentals and their shrifts." Spenser.

Same as Rouge et noir, under Rouge.

A subdivision in the lower Silurian system of America; -- so named from Trenton Falls, in New York. The rocks are mostly limestones, and the period is divided into the Trenton, Utica, and Cincinnati epochs. See the Chart of Geology.

Not current. Specifically: Not passing in common payment; not receivable at par or full value; as, uncurrent notes. Shak.

A current below the surface of water, sometimes flowing in a contrary direction to that on the surface. Totten.

Not differentiated; specifically (Biol.), homogenous, or nearly so; -- said especially of young or embryonic tissues which have not yet undergone differentiation (see Differentiation, 3), that is, which show no visible separation into their different structural parts.

Having no parent, or no acknowledged parent. [R.]

Irreverent. [R.] Shak.

Irreverently. [R.] B. Jonson.

ty, to exercise the powers of another; a lieutenant; a vicar. Bacon. The symbol and vicegerent of the Deity. C. A. Young.

Green; not withered. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

The current through one branch of the star arrangement of a three-phase circuit.

An extinct genus of cyathophylloid corals common in the Paleozoic formations. It is cup-shaped with numerous septa, and with a deep pit in one side of the cup.

ician alphabet having no vowel symbols. This letter, in English, is used for several different vowel sounds. See Guide to pronunciation, §§ 43-74. The regular long a, as in fate, etc., is a comparatively modern sound, and has taken the place of what, till about the early part of the 17th century, was a sound of the qua…

A Dutch and German measure of liquids, varying in different cities, being at Amsterdam about 41 wine gallons, at Antwerp 36½, at Hamburg 38¼. [Written also Aum and Awm.]