Bucentaur :: Bucentaur (n.) A fabulous monster, half ox, half man..

Bucentaur :: Bucentaur (n.) The state barge of Venice, used by the doge in the ceremony of espousing the Adriatic..

Centaur :: Centaur (n.) A fabulous being, represented as half man and half horse..

Centaur :: Centaur (n.) A constellation in the southern heavens between Hydra and the Southern Cross.

Centaurea :: Centaurea (n.) A large genus of composite plants, related to the thistles and including the cornflower or bluebottle (Centaurea Cyanus) and the star thistle (C. Calcitrapa)..

Centaury :: Centaury (n.) A gentianaceous plant not fully identified. The name is usually given to the Erytheraea Centaurium and the Chlora perfoliata of Europe, but is also extended to the whole genus Sabbatia, and even to the unrelated Centaurea..

Hippocentaur :: Hippocentaur (n.) Same as Centaur.

Instaurate :: Instaurate (v. t.) To renew or renovate.

Instaurated :: Instaurated (imp. & p. p.) of Instaurat.

Instaurating :: Instaurating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Instaurat.

Instauration :: Instauration (n.) Restoration after decay, lapse, or dilapidation; renewal; repair; renovation; renaissance..

Instaurator :: Instaurator (n.) One who renews or restores to a former condition.

Instaure :: Instaure (v. t.) To renew or renovate; to instaurate.

Minotaur :: Minotaur (n.) A fabled monster, half man and half bull, confined in the labyrinth constructed by Daedalus in Crete..

Petaurist :: Petaurist (n.) Any flying marsupial of the genera Petaurus, Phalangista, Acrobata, and allied genera. See Flying mouse, under Flying, and Phalangister..

Restaurant :: Restaurant (n.) An eating house.

Restaurate :: Restaurate (v. t.) To restore.

Restaurateur :: Restaurateur (n.) The keeper of an eathing house or a restaurant.

Restauration :: Restauration (n.) Restoration.

Staurolite :: Staunchness () See Stanch, Stanchly, etc..

Staurolitic :: Staurolite (n.) A mineral of a brown to black color occurring in prismatic crystals, often twinned so as to form groups resembling a cross. It is a silicate of aluminia and iron, and is generally found imbedded in mica schist. Called also granatite, and grenatite..

Stauroscope :: Staurolitic (a.) Of or pertaining to staurolite; resembling or containing staurolite.

Staurotide :: Stauroscope (n.) An optical instrument used in determining the position of the planes of light-vibration in sections of crystals.

Taur :: Taur (n.) The constellation Taurus.

Tauricornous :: Tauricornous (a.) Having horns like those of a bull.

Tauridor :: Tauridor (n.) A bullfighter; a toreador.

Tauriform :: Tauriform (a.) Having the form of a bull.

Taurine :: Taurine (a.) Of or pertaining to the genus Taurus, or cattle..

Taurine :: Taurine (n.) A body occurring in small quantity in the juices of muscle, in the lungs, and elsewhere, but especially in the bile, where it is found as a component part of taurocholic acid, from which it can be prepared by decomposition of the acid. It crystallizes in colorless, regular six-sided prisms, and is especially characterized by containing both nitrogen and sulphur, being chemically amido-isethionic acid, C2H7NSO3..

Taurocholate :: Taurocholate (n.) A salt of taurocholic acid; as, sodium taurocholate, which occurs in human bile..

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