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A coal-black marble, usually emitting a fetid smell when rubbed; -- called also stinkstone and swinestone.

A chronic lung disease, common among coal miners, due to the inhalation of coal dust; -- called also collier's lung and miner's phthisis.

tted to man by inoculation. The spleen becomes greatly enlarged and filled with bacteria. Called also splenic fever.

titude or principles of those opposing territorial expansion; in England, of those, often called Little Englanders, opposing the extension of the empire and the closer relation of its parts, esp. in matters of commerce and imperial defense. -- An`ti-im*pe"ri*al*ist, n. -- An`ti- im*pe`ri*al*is"tic (#), a.…

eter, the second and third Epistles of John, and the Revelation. The undisputed books are called the Homologoumena.

r, a consisting of one part oxide of antimony and two parts phosphate of calcium; -- also called James's powder.

e use of words in a sense opposite to their proper meaning; as when a court of justice is called a court of vengeance.

hey sang the sacred hymns, which consisted of three stanzas or parts; the first of which, called strophe, was sung in turning from east to west; the other, named antistrophe, in returning from west to east; then they stood before the altar, and sang the epode, which was the last part of the song. Abp. Potter.…

or, conversely, the use of a proper name instead of an appellative, as when a wise man is called a Solomon, or an eminent orator a Cicero.

rmerly supposed to be modification of oxygen, but now known to be hydrogen dioxide; -- so called because apparently antagonistic to ozone, converting it into ordinary oxygen.

term for all Quadrumana. The higher forms, the gorilla, chimpanzee, and ourang, are often called anthropoid apes or man apes.

One of the whitish specks called aphthæ.

An order of holothurians in which the internal respiratory organs are wanting; -- called also Apoda or Apodes.

, poetry, and music, etc., and was represented as the model of manly grace and beauty; -- called also Phébus. The Apollo Belvedere, a celebrated statue of Apollo in the Belvedere gallery of the Vatican palace at Rome, esteemed of the noblest representations of the human frame.

op or bottom of the shaft of a column where it expands to meet the edge of the fillet; -- called also the scape. Parker.

specially chosen as his companions and witnesses, and sent forth to preach the gospel. He called unto him his disciples, and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles. Luke vi. 13.

urch in the second and third centuries. -- Apostolic church, the Christian church; -- so called on account of its apostolic foundation, doctrine, and order. The churches of Rome, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem were called apostolic churches. -- Apostolic constitutions, directions of a nature similar to the aposto…

d by the character ['] placed where the letter or letters would have been; as, call'd for called.

To use the rhetorical figure called apostrophe.

Of or pertaining to a chain of mountains in the United States, commonly called the Allegheny mountains.