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or situated under, the northern constellation called the Bear; northern; frigid; as, the arctic pole, circle, region, ocean; an arctic expedition, night, temperature.

Opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it, and applied especially to a circle, distant from the pole 23º 28min. Thus we say the antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc.

Of or pert. to the arctic regions collectively; specif. (Zoögeography),

Of or pertaining to a region of the earth's surface including all of temperate and arctic North America and Greenland. In the geographical distribution of animals, this region is marked off as the habitat certain species.

Belonging to a region of the earth's surface which includes all Europe to the Azores, Iceland, and all temperate Asia.

Beginning; predisposing; exciting; initial. [Obs.]

Approximately arctic; belonging to a region just without the arctic circle.

used in composition in many English words. It is often shortened to ant-; as, antacid, antarctic.

Of or pertaining to arctic lands; as, the arctogeal fauna.

A name given to various species of arctic sea birds of the family Alcidæ. The great auk, now extinct, is Alca (or Plautus) impennis. The razor-billed auk is A. torda. See Puffin, Guillemot, and Murre.

le goose. [Written also barnacle.] Bernicle goose (Zoöl.), a goose (Branta leucopsis), of Arctic Europe and America. It was formerly believed that it hatched from the cirripeds of the sea (Lepas), which were, therefore, called barnacles, goose barnacles, or Anatifers. The name is also applied to other related species.…

An arctic fish (Gadus luscus), allied to the cod; -- called also pout and whiting pout.

A species of penguin of the antarctic seas.

The great Arctic or Greenland whale. (Balæna mysticetus). See Baleen, and Whale.

A genus of large univalve mollusks abundant in the arctic seas. It includes the common whelk (B. undatum).

An aquatic bird, the glaucous gull (Larus glaucus), common in arctic regions.

o called from its monotonous note. The Bohemion chatterer (Ampelis garrulus) inhabits the arctic regions of both continents. In America the cedar bird is a more common species. See Bohemian chatterer, and Cedar bird.

A genus of naked pteropods. One species (Clione papilonacea), abundant in the Arctic Ocean, constitutes a part of the food of the Greenland whale. It is sometimes incorrectly called Clio.

A long, thin fish of the arctic seas (Trachypterus arcticus).

f the family Elapidæ, of several species, as the Hoplocephalus superbus and Acanthopis antarctica. -- Death bell, a bell that announces a death. The death bell thrice was heard to ring. Mickle. -- Death candle, a light like that of a candle, viewed by the superstitious as presaging death. -- Death damp, a cold sweat…