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(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) A name given by Aga iz to one of his orders of fishes, the species composing which log composed of simple layers with smooth margins, but often ornamented on their exterior surface with different figures impre ed upon all the layers: these are of horn or bone without enamel; the scales of the lateral line, instead of being flat, are funnel-shaped; the contracted pan applied against the disk of the scale forms the tube by which the mucus exudeB which covers the fish. The included in the Cycloid order are, Labroides, Muges, Atherines, Scomberoids, Gadoids. Gobioids, Mitre no ide. Lucioids, Salmonoids, Clupeoids. and Cyprinoids. OY CLOI'iEDI A. (More correctly Encyclopaedia, from -: words Iv kvk\o> iraiiua; instruction in a circle.) A work containing definitions or accounts of the principal subjects in one or all departments of learning, art, or science, lis arrangement may be either according to divisions Into the various sciences, , or the subjects may be arranged and treated in alphabetical order. The Entydopidie Franfoise, or Dictionnaire Encyclopcdique, and the Encyclopaedia Britannica, have been the most celebrated works of this species; but the earliest appears to be the Lexicon Technicum of Harris, published in 1706. The great French work, the Encyclopedic Method i que, consists,not of one, but of a series of encyclopedias or diction iries. See DICTIONARY, ENCYCLOPAEDIA. [s. 327]