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ASTRAEA, in Greek legend, the " star maiden," daughter of Zeus and Themis, or of Astraeus the Titan and Eos, in which case she is identified with Dike. During the golden age she remained among men distributing blessings, but when the iron (or bronze) age came ...

ASTRAGAL (from the Gr. cioTpcryaXos, the ankle-joint), an architectural term for a convex moulding. This term is generally applied to small mouldings, " torus " (<?.*.) to large ones of the same form. The Lesbian astragal referred to by Vitruvius, bk. iv. ch.

ASTURA, formerly an island, now a peninsula, on the coast of Latium, Italy, 7 m. S.E. of Antium, at the S.E. extremity of the Bay of Antium. The name also belongs to the river which flowed into the sea immediately to the S.E., at the mouth of which there was,

ASTRAKHAN, a government of S.E. Russia, on the lower Volga, bounded N. by the governments of Samara and Saratov, W. by Saratov and the government of the Don Cossacks, S. by Stavropol and Terek, and E. by the Caspian Sea and the government of the Urals. Area, 9

ASTROLABE (from Gr. oxnpov, star, and \afitiv, to take), an instrument used not only for stellar, but for solar and lunar Altitude-taking. The principle of the astrolabe is explained in tig. 2. There were two kinds, — spherical and planispheric. Fis. 2.— Princ

... ich is composed of a number of nodes. In many secondary corals (Cydolites, Thamnastraea) the trabeculae are so far separate that the individual bars are easily recognizable, and each looks something like a bamboo owing to the thickening of the two ends of each ...