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The Ram; the first of the twelve signs in the zodiac, which the sun enters at the vernal equinox, about the 21st of March.

Feathers connecting the under surface of the wing and the body, and concealed by the closed wing.

Ulceration of bone; a process in which bone disintegrates and is carried away piecemeal, as distinguished from necrosis, in which it dies in masses.

not establish the truth of the other. If two universals differ in quality, they are contraries; as, every vine is a tree; no vine is a tree. These can never be both true together; but they may be both false. I. Watts.

The triangular middle part of each segment of the shell of a barnacle.

One of the functionaries who light and trim the tapers.

ing the style spring from the base, instead of from the apex, as is the case in certain ovaries.

Of or pertaining to actuaries; as, the actuarial value of an annuity.

One of a sect of visionaries, who, professing to imitate the state of Adam, discarded the use of dress in their assemblies.

ldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone.

hop's own stiffness and averseness to comply with the court designs, advantaged his adversaries against him. Fuller. What is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away Luke ix. 25. To advantage one's self of, to avail one's self of. [Obs.]

scellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes. These parchments are supposed to have been St. Paul's adversaria. Bp. Bull.

utriment; anything which feeds or adds to a substance in natural growth. Hence: The necessaries of life generally: sustenance; means of support. Aliments of theiBacon.

noclinic crystals; also massive, generally with fibrous or columnar structure. The color varies from white to gray, green, brown, and black. It is a silicate of magnesium and calcium, with usually aluminium and iron. Some common varieties are tremolite, actinolite, asbestus, edenite, hornblende (the last name being als…

Pertaining to antiquaries, or to antiquity; as, antiquarian literature.

A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court.

To adjust or settle; to prepare; to determine; as, to arrange the preliminaries of an undertaking.

hey have tricker and more muscular walls than veins, and are connected with them by capillaries.

Right ascension (Astron.), that degree of the equinoctial, counted from the beginning of Aries, which rises with a star, or other celestial body, in a right sphere; or the arc of the equator intercepted between the first point of Aries and that point of the equator that comes to the meridian with the star; -- expresse…

etimes opposed to aboard or afloat. Here shall I die ashore. Shak. I must fetch his necessaries ashore. Shak.