Emu
a large bird, native of Australia. Its color is a dull brown, mottled with dingy gray; the young are striped with black. When assailed it strikes glazed.
ENCYCLICAL (-sik'li-kal), a letter addressed by the Pope to all his bishops, condemning current errors or advising the Christian people how to act in regard to great public questions. It difmainly in that the latter is usually more special in its destination. The famous encyclical issued Dec. 8, 1864, by Pius IX., was accomspecifically 80 principles in religion, panied by a "Syllabus" condemning "Syllabus " condemning philosophy, and politics.
ENCYCLOPÆDIA. See CYCLOPÆDIA.