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One of no certain belief; one belonging to no particular sect.

A person eighty years, or more, of age.

Of or pertaining to a coast.

A genus of dark green, or purplish black, filamentous, fresh- water algæ, the threads of which have an automatic swaying or crawling motion. Called also Oscillatoria.

Of or pertaining to an ovary.

An outcast; one despised by society. Pariah dog (Zoöl.), a mongrel race of half-wild dogs which act as scavengers in Oriental cities. -- Pariah kite (Zoöl.), a species of kite (Milvus govinda) which acts as a scavenger in India.

See Pair royal, under Pair, n.

aining to Paros, an island in the Ægean Sea noted for its excellent statuary marble; as, Parian marble. Parian chronicle, a most ancient chronicle of the city of Athens, engraved on marble in the Isle of Paros, now among the Arundelian marbles.

nd usages of Parliament or similar deliberative assemblies; as, an accomplished parliamentarian.

One of a class eligible to the office of senator, but not yet chosen, who could sit and speak in the senate, but could not vote; -- so called because he might indicate his opinion by walking over to the side of the party he favored when a vote was taken.

A peculiar forcepslike organ which occurs in large numbers upon starfishes and echini. Those of starfishes have two movable jaws, or blades, and are usually nearly, or quite, sessile; those of echini usually have three jaws and a pedicel. See Illustration in Appendix.

See Lady's thumb.

A group of simple marine organisms, usually classed as the lowest of the sponges. They have inflated hollow bodies.

Same as Infusoria.

An extensive division of birds which includes the woodpeckers, toucans, trogons, hornbills, kingfishers, motmots, rollers, and goatsuckers. By some writers it is made to include also the cuckoos, swifts, and humming birds.

Of or pertaining to Picariæ. -- n.

Any species of turbellarian worms belonging to Planaria, and many allied genera. The body is usually flat, thin, and smooth. Some species, in warm countries, are terrestrial.

One of the Planarida, or Dendrocoela; any turbellarian worm. -- Pla*na"ri*an, a.

One addicted to uttering platitudes, or stale and insipid truisms. "A political platitudinarian." G. Eliot.

A plenist.