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A tiara. [Poetic] Milton. Tennyson.

A form of headdress worn by the ancient Persians. According to Xenophon, the royal tiara was encircled with a diadem, and was high and erect, while those of the people were flexible, or had rims turned over.

Adorned with, or wearing, a tiara.

A Virulent poison prepared in Java from the gum resin of one species of the upas tree (Antiaris toxicaria).

A poisonous principle obtained from antiar. Watts.

A treatise on beasts; esp., one of the moralizing or allegorical beast tales written in the Middle Ages.

See centare.

sserting; proving; evidential. When a fact is supposed, although incorrectly, to be evidentiary of, a mark of, some other fact. J. S. Mill.

One who gives information; an intelligencer. [Obs.] Holinshed.

The mouth of a river; an estuary. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Relating to penance, or to the rules and measures of penance. "A penitentiary tax." Abp. Bramhall.

The office or condition of a penitentiary of the papal court. [R.] Wood.

Containing or conferring full power; invested with full power; as, plenipotentiary license; plenipotentiary ministers. Howell.

Following, or more recent than, the Tertiary; Quaternary.

Earlier than Tertiary.

Having residence; as, a canon residentary; a residentiary guardian. Dr. H. More.

The office or condition of a residentiary.

A gladiator armed with a net for entangling his adversary and a trident for despatching him.

A retiarius.

The apartment, in a church or temple, where the vestments, etc., are kept; -- now contracted into vestry.