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The lowest of the three divisions of the Jurassic period; a name given in England and Europe to a series of marine limestones underlying the Oölite. See the Chart of Geology.

Of the age of the Lias; pertaining to the Lias Formation. -- n.

e who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful; as, Smith, alias Simpson.

The millennium.

One who believes in the second coming of Christ to reign on earth a thousand years; a milllenarian.

Millenarian. "The obstruction offered by the chiliastic errors." J. A. Alexander.

Same as Galleass.

See Paillasse.

The head of a family; in a large sense, the proprietor of an estate; one who is his own master.

maker of scholia; a commentator or annotator. No . . . quotations from Talmudists and scholiasts . . . ever marred the effect of his grave temperate discourses. Macaulay.

Of or pertaining to a scholiast, or his pursuits. Swift.

small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera. The common European adder is the Vipera (or Pelias) berus. The puff adders of Africa are species of Clotho.

y this time; previously. "Joseph was in Egypt already." Exod. i. 5. I say unto you, that Elias is come already. Matt. xvii. 12.

A fish of the Pacific coast (Chromis, or Heliastes, punctipinnis), of a blackish color.

, as the tautog, black bass, etc. Chub mackerel (Zoöl.), a species of mackerel (Scomber colias) in some years found in abundance on the Atlantic coast, but absent in others; -- called also bull mackerel, thimble-eye, and big-eye mackerel. -- Chub sucker (Zoöl.), a fresh-water fish of the United States (Erimyzon sucett…

ompositæ; also, any plant or flower of the genus. The numerous varieties of cultivated dahlias bear conspicuous flowers which differ in color.

pe in the 16th and 17th centuries. See Galleon, and Galley. [Written variously galeas, gallias, etc.]

A writer of glosses or of a glossary; a commentator; a scholiast. Tyrwhitt.

A writer of glosses; a scholiast; a commentator. L. Addison.

A writer of a glossary; a commentator; a scholiast. Hayward.