The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . y SialidiP or giving name to the family lla-phidiidie. The prothorax is cylimirical, and the wingsare furnished with a pterostigma. The larvrc differ fl-omall other Sialidie in not being aijuatie; they live underbark. The genus is represented in North .\merica onlytm tlic Pacific coast, altliougli common in Europe. raphidian (ra-fidi-au), a. 1. In liot., of thenature of or coutaiiiiiig raphides: as, raphidiancells in a plant.— 2. In :oiil., of or pertainingto
The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . y SialidiP or giving name to the family lla-phidiidie. The prothorax is cylimirical, and the wingsare furnished with a pterostigma. The larvrc differ fl-omall other Sialidie in not being aijuatie; they live underbark. The genus is represented in North .\merica onlytm tlic Pacific coast, altliougli common in Europe. raphidian (ra-fidi-au), a. 1. In liot., of thenature of or coutaiiiiiig raphides: as, raphidiancells in a plant.— 2. In :oiil., of or pertainingto the genus Jtaphidia. raphidiferous (raf-i-dife-rus), a. [/. t^L. (Leach,1824), < Itaphidia + A family of neu-ropterous insects: now merged in the Sialidse. raphigraph (rafi-gi-af), . [< Gr. /mii?iV, a nee-dle, pill, -I- ;pri0fn, write.] .\ machine intend-ed to provide a means of conimuiiication withthe blind, by the use of characters made bypricking paper with ten needle-pointed pegs,. Xit/Mia Vint/era. raphigraph actuated by a keyboard, and operating in with mechanism for shifting the machine has proved practically valueless from its coni-plicatiou and its extreme slowness of operation, resultingfrom the reiiuisite number of (rafis),«.: pi. )vy)/(«/f«{rafi-dez). [NL.,a(>/f, l>aTzk, a needle, pin, < pa-rtiv, sew,stitch. Cf. raphe.] In hot., one of the acicularcrystals, most often composed of oxalate of lime,which oecnr in bundles in the cells of manyplants. The term has less properly been used to includecrystals of other forms found in the same situations. Also rapid (rapid), a. and n. [I. a. F. rapide ( rmU, ra) = Sp. rdpido = Pg. , svvitt, < L. ropiduti, snatching, tearing,usually hastv,,< raj)f)Y,snatch,akin to Gr. apn-aCf, seize (see harpy): see rtq}-,rape. II. n. F. rapide, a swift current in astream, pi. rajnde.:, rapids; from the adj.] 1. Moving
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