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Of or pertaining to Chios, an island in the Ægean Sea. Chian earth, a dense, compact kind of earth, from Chios, used anciently as an astringent and a cosmetic. -- Chian turpentine, a fragrant, almost transparent turpentine, obtained from the Pistacia Terebinthus.

Of or pertaining to the city of Antioch, in Syria. Antiochian epoch (Chron.), a method of computing time, from the proclamation of liberty granted to the city of Antioch, about the time of the battle of Pharsalia, B.C. 48.

See Appalachian.

Of or pertaining to a chain of mountains in the United States, commonly called the Allegheny mountains.

A group of Annelida remarkable for having no external segments or distinct ventral nerve ganglions.

Of or pertaining to the satiric Greek poet Archilochus; as, Archilochian meter.

Severely critical.

Pertaining to the Batrachia. -- n.

Pertaining to the Eustachian tube; as, Eustachian catheter. Eustachian catheter, a tubular instrument to be introduced into the Eustachian tube so as to allow of inflation of the middle ear through the nose or mouth. -- Eustrachian tube (Anat.), a passage from the tympanum of the ear to the pharynx. See Ear. -- Eusta…

A follower of Eutyches [5th century], who held that the divine and the human in the person of Christ were blended together as to constitute but one nature; a monophysite; -- opposed to Nestorian.

The doctrine of Eutyches and his followers.

One of the Inferobranchiata.

One of a sect in the early Christian church which rejected the doctrine of the Trinity; -- called also patripassian.

Of or pertaining to the patriarch Noah, or to his time.

Parochial. [Obs.] "Parochian churches." Bacon.

Any small moth of the genus Psyche and allied genera (family Psychidæ). The larvæ are called basket worms. See Basket worm, under Basket.

One of the Scutibranchiata.

One of the Selachii. See Illustration in Appendix.

One of the Subbrachiales.

Of or pertaining to bullfights. -- n.