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A light open cotton fabric used for window curtains.

Given to lewdness. [Obs.]

Having the form of a smooth and shallow depression; sockas, the glenoid cavity, or fossa, of the scapula, in which the head of the humerus articulates.

Glenoid.

See Ivorytype.

Situated behind the glenoid fossa of the temporal bone.

Of or pertaining to a scalenohedron.

A pyramidal form under the rhombohedral system, inclosed by twelve faces, each a scalene triangle.

As seen or estimated from the center of the moon; with the moon central.

, n. A picture or delineation of the moon's surface, or of any part of it.

One skilled in selenography. Wright.

Of or pertaining to selenography.

A selenographer.

of the moon; - - corresponding to physical geography in respect to the earth. "Accurate selenography, or description of the moon." Sir T. Browne.

That branch of astronomy which treats of the moon. -- Sel`e*no*log"i*cal, a.

A hypothetical radical of selenium, analogous to sulphonium. [R.]

Same as Scaphopoda.

Either one of two species of singular West Indian insectivores, allied to the tenrec. One species (Solendon paradoxus), native of St. Domingo, is called also agouta; the other (S. Cubanus), found in Cuba, is called almique.

An order of lowly organized Mollusca belonging to the Isopleura. A narrow groove takes the place of the foot of other gastropods.

Pertaining to the Selenoglypha. See Ophidia. -- n.