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The bottom of the sea, esp. of the deep oceans; hence (Bot. & Zoöl.), the fauna and flora of the sea bottom; -- opposed to plankton.

A white crystalline powder used as an intestinal antiseptic; beta-naphthol benzoate.

imp. & p. p. of Bethink.

Of, or containing, bismuth, when this element has its lower valence.

A spreading thorny shrub or small tree (Prunus spinosa), with blackish bark, and bearing little black plums, which are called sloes; the sloe.

A house for sheltering boats. Half the latticed boathouse hides. Wordsworth.

Stocking hose, or spatterdashes, in lieu of boots. Shak.

A plant of the genus Lycium, esp. Lycium barbarum.

A thick piece of timber in the form of a knee, placed across the stem of a ship to strengthen the fore part and unite the bows on each side. Totten.

nus) of shrubs or trees. The shorter branches of some species terminate in long spines or thorns. See Rhamnus. Sea buckthorn, a plant of the genus Hippophaë.

The common European starfish (Asterias rubens).

The operation of forming a new canthus, when one has been destroyed by injury or disease.

A method of attaining successively lower temperatures by utilizing the cooling effect of the expansion of one gas in condensing another less easily liquefiable, and so on.

The buckthorn (Rhamnus Purshiana) of the Pacific coast of the United States, which yields cascara sagrada.

current passes out of the electrolyte; the negative pole; -- opposed to anode. Faraday. Cathode ray (Phys.), a kind of ray generated at the cathode in a vacuum tube, by the electrical discharge.

A term applied to the centrifugal, or efferent course of the nervous infuence. Marshall Hall.

A picture produced by the Röntgen rays; a radiograph.

Universal or general; as, the catholic faith. Men of other countries [came] to bear their part in so great and catholic a war. Southey.

Catholic. [Obs.]

The state or quality of being catholic or universal; catholicity. Jer. Taylor.