astragaloscaphoid (astragaloskafoid)

[ astrictive ne ated tail, like a magpie's, paired lateral crests on the head, and the whole plumage brilliantly iridescent. A. nigra, or A. gular is, is the paradise-pie, also known as the incomparable. a straught (as-trat'), p. a. [Substituted for astragalotibial (as-traga-lō-tib'i-al), a. [ distraught , q. v.] Distracted; distraught; astragalus + tibial .] Pertaining to both the aghast. Golding. astragalus and the tibia: as, astragalotibial a str a unget (as-tranj'), v. t. An old form of articulation. estrange. astragals. astragal-tool (as'tra-gal-töl), n. A turning chisel with a concave face for cutting astragals. astragalus (as-trag'a-lus), n.; pl. astragali (-li). [L., Gr. ἀστράγαλος, one of the vertebræ, the ball of the ankle-joint, a die, an architectural molding, a leguminous plant; prob. from same root as ὀστέον, a bone. Cf. osteo-.] 1. In an at., the tibiale, or innermost one of the proximal row of tarsal bones. In mammals it articulates with the tibia and enters into the tibiotarsal or ankle-joint; in birds it is ankylosed with the tibia, forming more or le of the tibial condyles, and entering into the mediotarsal or so-called tibiometatarsal joint or heel-joint. In man and some other mammals it is known as the talus, huckle-bone, ankle-bone, or sling bone, being the uppermost bone of the tarsus, and chiefly or entirely receiving the weight of the body, in so far as this is borne upon the foot or hind foot. See cuts under Dromæus, foot, and hock1. 2. [ cap.] [NL.] A very large genus of plants, natural order Leguminosa, mostly low herbs, found in all parts of the world except Australia and South Africa. Over 1,000 species are known in the old world, and about 200 in North America, chiefly west of the Mi i ippi. Very few are of any value. A. gummifer and a group of allied species, low spiny shrubs Minor, Syria, and Persia, are the source of the gum tragacanth of commerce. Some of the same species also yield a sort of manna. A. Bætic us is cultivated in some parts of Europe for its seeds, which are used as a substitute for coffee. In the United States several species are known as locoweed, and are poisonous to animals eating them. a strain (a-str an'), prep. phr. as adv. or a. [ + strain.] On the strain; straining. astrakhan (as'tra-kan), n. [ lakes of Astrakhan. astral (as'tral), a. and n. [ = Astral showers covered the heavens. Palsgrave, Norm, and Eng., III. 331. ( N. E. D. ) 2. Specifically, in theosophy , an epithet descriptive of a supersensible substance supposed to pervade all space and enter into all bodies; odic; biogenic. - Astral body, in theosophy , a living form composed of astral fluid; a ghost, wraith, or double; an astral. Astral fluid, od; biogen. See these words. - Astral lamp, a lamp with an annular reservoir for oil, which is connected with the wick-tube by two small tubes. These tubes offer the only obstruction to the pa age of all rays which fall between the reservoir and the stem of the lamp-stand, the shadow cast by lamps of the ordinary tral spirits, spirits believed, in the middle ages, to peo- ple the stars. They were variously conceived as fallen an gels, souls of departed men, or spirits originating in fire, and hovering between heaven and earth, and between earth and hell. astragalocalcaneal (as-trag"a-lō-kal-kānē-al), a. Pertaining to the astragalocalcaneum: astragalocalcaneum (as-traga-lō-kal-kā nē- um), n.;; pl. pl. a strag a local cane a (-a). [ astrage astraga- lus + calcaneum.] A bone of the tarsus repre- senting both the astragalus and the calcaneum, as in lizards and birds. It is supposed also to include the naviculare, in some cases at least, and thus to repre- sent the whole proximal row of tarsal bones. In some lizards, as members of the genus Varanus , it is very large, a3+ strand .] Stranded. perfectly distinct, extended transversely, but little back- distal tarsal bones.