palinurus

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. [lowercase] An instrument for determining the error of a ship's compass by the bearing of celestial objects.
2. n. The typical and only living genus of Palinuridæ. P. vulgaris is known as the spiny lobster, rock-lobster, or sea-crawfish. It is common on the coast of Great Britain, and is brought in large numbers to the London markets. The antennæ are greatly developed, and the carapace is spiny and tuberculate.
3. n. A genus of stromateoid fishes: same as Lirus.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. An instrument for obtaining directly, without calculation, the true bearing of the sun, and thence the variation of the compass.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. type genus of the family Palinuridae