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An evergreen species of barberry (Berberis Aquifolium), of Oregon and California; also, its roundish, blue-black berries.

The diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal which is at right angles with the vertical axis.

A rectangular figure.

Right-angled; rectangular; as, an orthogonal intersection of one curve with another. Orthogonal projection. See under Orthographic.

Perpendicularly; at right angles; as, a curve cuts a set of curves orthogonally.

A triangle having three acute angles.

Having acute angles. Barlow.

A companion; a match; an equal. [Obs.] Spenser. Philoclea, who indeed had no paragon but her sister. Sir P. Sidney.

ated to muscovite, but containing soda instead of potash. It is characteristic of the paragonite schist of the Alps.

See Parergy.

Of or pertaining to Patagonia. -- n.

ting, an organic acid (called also nonoic acid) found in the leaves of the geranium (Pelargonium) and allied plants.

A large genus of plants of the order Geraniaceæ, differing from Geranium in having a spurred calyx and an irregular corolla.

e assumed by the ancient British chiefs when called to lead other chiefs. The dread Pendragon, Britain's king of kings. Tennyson.

g five angles, and, consequently, five sides; any figure having five angles. Regular pentagon, a pentagon in which the angles are all equal, and the sides all equal.

Having five corners or angles. Pentagonal dodecahedron. See Dodecahedron, and Pyritohedron.

In the form of a pentagon; with five angles. Sir T. Browne.

Pentagonal.

A sac which surrounds the generative bodies in the gonophore of a hydroid.

Same as Perigone.