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Isle. [Obs.] "The barren yle." Chaucer.

A gaseous compound of carbon and hydrogen, in the proportion of two atoms of the former to two of the latter. It is a colorless gas, with a peculiar, unpleasant odor, and is produced for use as an illuminating gas in a number of ways, but chiefly by the action of water on calcium carbide. Its light is very brilliant. W…

A plant which has no cotyledons, as the dodder and all flowerless plants.

Having no seed lobes, as the dodder; also applied to plants which have no true seeds, as ferns, mosses, etc.

An apparatus consisting chiefly of a closed vessel (as a globe or cylinder) with one or more projecting bent tubes, through which steam is made to pass from the vessel, causing it to revolve. [Written also eolipile.]

A gaseous hydrocarbon, C3H4, homologous with acetylene; propine. CH3.C.CH

Doubly prostyle; having columns at each end, but not at the sides. -- n.

One of a group of metameric hydrocarbons, C5H10, of the ethylene series. The colorless, volatile, mobile liquid commonly called amylene is a mixture of different members of the group.

See Intercolumniation.

See Intercolumniation.

See Intercolumniation, and Aræostyle.

See Intercolumniation, and Aræosystyle.

One of the Artiodactyla.

A grandfather. [Obs.] Writ of Ayle, an ancient English writ which lay against a stranger who had dispossessed the demandant of land of which his grandfather died seized.

See Basyle.

A positive or nonacid constituent of compound, either elementary, or, if compound, performing the functions of an element.

A kind or favorable reception or salutation. [Obs.]

A great-grandfather. [Obs.]

In certain hydroids, an imperfect zooid, whose special function is to produce medusoid buds. See Hydroidea, and Athecata.

See under Law.