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ivision of insects having slender or subulate antennæ. The dragon flies and May flies are examples.

A problem to be solved, or an example to be wrought out. Macaulay. A sum in arithmetic wherein a flaw discovered at a particular point is ipso facto fatal to the whole. Gladstone. A large sheet of paper . . . covered with long sums. Dickens. Algebraic sum, as distinguished from arithmetical sum, the aggregate of two or…

To have weight or influence. The example of sundry churches . . . doth sway much. Hooker.

rve from the strict letter of the law. Clarendon. Many who, through the contagion of evil example, swerve exceedingly from the rules of their holy religion. Atterbury.

gated snout and lack the ventral and first dorsal fins. The pipefishes and sea horses are examples. -- Syng"na*thous, a.

ose which have transverse septa in the calicles. The genera Pocillopora and Favosites are examples.

An example of tachygraphy; esp., an ancient Greek or Roman tachygraphic manuscript.

cluding those which have a long, ribbonlike body. The Venus's girdle is the most familiar example.

An order of fishes remarkable for their long and compressed form. The ribbon fishes are examples. See Ribbon fish, under Ribbon.

ther lord, upon his subjects. The taille, as it still subsists in France, may serve as an example of those ancient tallages. It was a tax upon the profits of the farmer, which they estimate by the stock that he has upon the farm. A. Smith.

f his favorite wife. In beauty of design and rich decorative detail it is one of the best examples of Saracenic architecture.

a curve that is between the point of tangency and a given line, the given line being, for example, the axis of abscissas, or a radius of a circle produced. See Trigonometrical function, under Function. Artificial, or Logarithmic, tangent, the logarithm of the natural tangent of an arc. -- Natural tangent, a decimal ex…

s large and contains lancelike mandibles and maxillæ. The horseflies and robber flies are examples.

Any armadillo of the family Tatusiidæ, of which the peba and mule armadillo are examples. Also used adjectively.

s usually thin and delicate and often rudimentary. The aplysias and the bubble shells are examples.

e a calcareous shell furnished with a hinge and hinge teeth. Terebratula and Spirifer are examples.

one of a certain series of basic compounds containing a chain of four nitrogen atoms; for example, ethyl tetrazone, (C2H5)2N.N2.N(C2H5)2, a colorless liquid having an odor of leeks.

ydranths in thecæ and the gonophores in capsules. The campanularians and sertularians are examples. Called also Thecata. See Illust. under Hydroidea.

have six thoracic segments, usually bearing six pairs of cirri. The common barnacles are examples.

la are converted into poison fangs. The cone shells (Conus), Pleurotoma, and Terebra, are examples. See Illust. of Cone, n., 4, Pleurotoma, and Terebra.