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That prohibits; prohibitory; as, a tax whose effect is prohibitive.

Tending to prohibit, forbid, or exclude; implying prohibition; forbidding; as, a prohibitory law; a prohibitory price. Prohibitory index. (R. C. Ch.) See under Index.

A genus of fossil horses from the Lower Pliocene. They had three toes on each foot, the lateral ones being small.

One of the rudimentary front wings of certain insects (Stylops). They resemble the halteres, or rudimentary hind wings, of Diptera.

Like pyrites in hemihedral form.

The pentagonal dodecahedron, a common form of pyrite.

Related to the rhombohedron; presenting the form of a rhombohedron, or a form derivable from a rhombohedron; relating to a system of forms including the rhombohedron and scalenohedron. Rhombohedral iron ore (Min.) See Hematite. -- Rhombohedral system (Crystallog.), a division of the hexagonal system embracing the rhom…

Rhombohedral.

A solid contained by six rhomboids; a parallelopiped.

An inspissated juice. See Rob.

Of or pertaining to a scalenohedron.

A pyramidal form under the rhombohedral system, inclosed by twelve faces, each a scalene triangle.

divisions of the Corniferous period in the American Devonian system; -- so called from Schoharie, in New York, where it occurs. See the Chart of Geology.

y Jacob on his deathbed, and interpreted variously, as "the Messiah," or as the city "Shiloh," or as "Rest."

Ho; -- a word used in calling from a distant place; a sportsman's halloo. Shak.

A photograph of the sun made by monochromatic light, usually of the calcium line (k), and showing the sun's faculæ and prominences.

An apparatus for making spectroheliograms, consisting of a spectroscopic camera used in combination with a telescope, and provided with clockwork for moving the sun's image across the slit. -- Spec`tro*he`li*o*graph"ic (#), a.

Of or pertaining to the sternum and the hyoid bone or cartilage.

A segment in the hyoidean arch between the epihyal and tympanohyal.

Of or pertaining to the styloid process and the hyoid bone.