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used by the refraction of light through crystals of ice in the atmosphere. Connected with halos there are often white bands, crosses, or arches, resulting from the same atmospheric conditions.

Surrounded with a halo; invested with an ideal glory; glorified. Some haloed face bending over me. C. Bronté.

An electro-negative element or radical, which, by combination with a metal, forms a haloid salt; especially, chlorine, bromine, and iodine; sometimes, also, fluorine and cyanogen. See Chlorine family, under Chlorine.

Of the nature of a halogen.

A haloid substance.

See Alomancy.

An instrument for measuring the forms and angles of salts and crystals; a goniometer.

Alternating transparent and opaque white rings which are seen outside the blastoderm, on the surface of the developing egg of the hen and other birds.

A plant found growing in salt marshes, or in the sea.

An instrument for exhibition or illustration of the phenomena of halos, parhelia, and the like.

An iron alum occurring in silky fibrous aggregates of a yellowish white color.

An explosive mixture, consisting of sawdust, charcoal, niter, and ferrocyanide of potassium, used as a substitute for gunpowder.

Having a spiny head, as one of the Acanthocephala.

A larval entozoön in the form of a subglobular or oval vesicle, or hy datid, filled with fluid, sometimes found in the tissues of man and the lower animals; -- so called from the absence of a head or visible organs on the vesicle. These cysts are the immature stages of certain tapeworms. Also applied to similar cysts o…

Pertaining to, or resembling, the acephalocysts.

Wanting the beginning. A false or acephalous structure of sentence. De Quincey.

Having a human head (upon an animal's body), as the Egyptian sphinx.

Without a brain; brainless. Todd & B.

Having a gold-colored head.

Having its own head; independent of episcopal or patriarchal jurisdiction, as certain Greek churches.