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The letters signified by the signal ( . . . ---. . . ) prescribed by the International Radiotelegraphic Convention of 1912 for use by ships in distress.

To fall at once into a chair or seat; to sit lazily. [Obs.] Swift.

Sustained; -- applied to a movement or passage the sounds of which are to sustained to the utmost of the nominal value of the time; also, to a passage the tones of which are to be somewhat prolonged or protacted.

A sexual spore in which the sexes differ in size; -- opposed to isospore.

Having unequal stamens; having stamens different in number from the petals.

Of unequal strength.

The seed of gold; a means of creating gold. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Excessive thirst produced by disease.

An apparatus for detecting the presence of any dangerous gas, from a gas leak in a coal mine or a dwelling house.

Having the structure of gneiss.

A stone with spangles of gold color in it.

the XVIth is merely a double of the XVth dynasty, and that the total period of the six Hyksos kings was little more than 100 years. It is supposed that they were Asiatic Semites.

Having two legs or sides that are equal; -- said of a triangle.

An extensive order of fishes, including the salmons, herrings, and many allied forms.

Of or pertaining to the Isospondyli; having the anterior vertebræ separate and normal.

One of the spores produced by an isosporous organism.

Producing but one kind of spore, as the ferns and Equiseta. Cf. Heterosporic.

Producing but one kind of spore, as the ferns.

The state or quality of being isostatic. Specif. (Geol.),

quilibrium, as a body submerged in a liquid at rest; pertaining to, or characterized by, isostasy.