"The use made by the solarists of far fetched etymolosolarium

[Lat.=a sun-dial.] Zool. & Palæont .: Staircase-shell; a genus of Littorinide ( Woodward ), of Solaride ( Tate ) . Shell orbicular, depre ed, umbilicus wide and deep; aperture rhombic, peristome thin; operculum horny, sub-spiral. The edges of the whorls seen in the umbilicus have been fancifully compared to a winding staircase. Twenty-five recent species, wiciely distributed over sub-tropical and tropical seas; fo il species numerous, from the Oolite onward. IMG:content-1701.png:[blocks in formation] "Months are not only lunary, and measured by the moon, but are also solar a , and determined by the motion of the sun." -Browne: Vulgar Errors , bk. iv., ch. xii. sol-ar-ỹ (2), a. [Lat. solum =the ground.] Of or belonging to the ground; proceeding from the ground. "From the like spirits in the earth the plants thereof perhaps acquire their verdure, And from such solary irradiations may those wondrous varieties arise, which are observable in animals."- Browne : Vulgar Errors , bk. vi., ch. xii. *solas, s . [SOLACE.]