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A genus of large percoid fishes, of which one species (Lates Niloticus) inhabits the Nile, and another (L. calcarifer

A slight withdrawal from view or knowledge. Sir W. Hamilton.

Slightly withdrawn from view or knowledge; as, a latescent meaning. Sir W. Hamilton.

The office of a prelate. Harmar.

A woman who is a prelate; the wife of a prelate. Milton.

er; to increase greatly. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Goldsmith.

One who, or that which, accumulates, collects, or amasses.

A man who violates his religious covenant. Jer. ix. 2.

A woman who violates her religious engagements. James iv. 4.

ivets, or Alman rivets, a sort of light armor from Germany, characterized by overlapping plates, arranged to slide on rivets, and thus afford great flexibility.

Art or process of producing, and printing from, aluminium plates, after the manner of ordinary lithography. -- A*lu`mi*no*graph"ic (#), a.

Of or pertaining to ambulacra; avenuelike; as, the ambulacral ossicles, plates, spines, and suckers of echinoderms.

One of a pair of shelly plates found in some cephalopods, as the ammonites.

Pertaining to a process or a style of printing from characters in relief on zinc plates.

One who relates or collects anecdotes.

One who, or that which, annihilates; as, a fire annihilator.

in which the body is naked or covered with slender spines or setæ, but is without shelly plates.

A subordinate or subsidiary part or organ; an external organ or limb, esp. of the articulates. Antennæ and other appendages used for feeling. Carpenter.

æ, peculiar to America. The body and head are incased in an armor composed of small bony plates. The armadillos burrow in the earth, seldom going abroad except at night. When attacked, they curl up into a ball, presenting the armor on all sides. Their flesh is good food. There are several species, one of which (the peb…

Covered with defensive plates of metal, as a ship of war; steel-clad. This day will be launched . . . the first armor-plated steam frigate in the possession of Great Britain. Times (Dec. 29, 1860).