PYNCHON, WILLIAM, an American colonist; born in Springfield, England, about 1590. He emigrated to New Eng land and founded the town of Spring field, Mass. In 1650 he published "The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption," opposing the Calvinistic view of atone ment. The book was denounced as her etical, and the author was compelled to return to England to avoid persecution. His other works are: "The Jewes Syna 746 feet. The principal chamber, the so-called Crowning Hall or King's Cham ber, is 34 feet, 3 inches long, and 17 feet, 1 inch wide.
In Mexican antiquities, the Teocallis, or Houses of the Gods, which have come down from Aztec times, are four-sided pyramids rising by terraces to a consid erable height. A group of such erec tions still exist at Teotihuacan, about 20 miles N. E. of the City of Mexico.
There are two large pyramids, with some hundred smaller ones. The base of the largest is 900 feet long, its height 160 feet.
In anatomy, a conical bony eminence in the anterior wall of the tympanum of the ear. In geometry, a polyhedron bounded by a polygon, having any num ber of sides, called the base, and by tri angles meeting in a common point, called the vertex. Pyramids take different names according to the natures of their bases. They may be triangular, quad rangular, etc., according as their bases are triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, etc. In botany, the American calumba or Indian lettuce, Frasera earolinensis. Pyramid pool: A game played with 15 red balls and one white ball, the former being placed in a triangular form at a spot on the top of the table. The ob ject of the players, who play in turn with the white ball, is to pocket as many red balls as possible.