- A canopy usually standing free and supported on four
columns, covering the high altar, or, very rarely, a secondary altar. - The coffer or case in which the host is kept; the pyx.
- Separate or apart from others; single; distinct. - Engaged in by only one on a side; single. - Existing by itself; single; individual. - Each; individual; as, to convey several parcels of land,
all and singular. - Denoting one person or thing; as, the singular number; --
opposed to dual and plural. - Standing by itself; out of the ordinary course; unusual;
uncommon; strange; as, a singular phenomenon. - Distinguished as existing in a very high degree; rarely
equaled; eminent; extraordinary; exceptional; as, a man of singular
gravity or attainments.
- Army signal horn - Eavesdrop on the French trumpet - Last Post instrument - Military brass instrument - Military horn - Military instrument - Military trumpet
- Solvent chemical - A volatile, very inflammable liquid, C6H6, contained in
the naphtha produced by the destructive distillation of coal, from
which it is separated by fractional distillation. The name is sometimes
applied also to the impure commercial product or benzole, and also, but
rarely, to a similar mixed product of petroleum.
- A plant belonging to one of the greater part of the
vegetable kingdom, and which the plants are characterized by having c
wood bark, and pith, the wood forming a layer between the other two,
and increasing, if at all, by the animal addition of a new layer to the
outside next to the bark. The leaves are commonly netted-veined, and
the number of cotyledons is two, or, very rarely, several in a whorl.
Cf. Endogen.
- Blonde into heavy metal? - High-selling CD award - Jewellery metal - Precious metal - Sort of best-selling record for a blonde - Sort of bestselling record for a blonde - A metallic element, intermediate in value between silver
and gold, occurring native or alloyed with other metals, also as the
platinum arsenide (sperrylite). It is heavy tin-white metal which is
ductile and malleable, but very infusible, and characterized by its
resistance to strong chemical reagents. It is used for crucibles, for
stills for sulphuric acid, rarely for coin, and in the form of foil and
wire for many purposes. Specific gravity 21.5. Atomic weight 194.3.
Symbol Pt. Formerly called platina.