(n. pl.) A comprehensive division of animals including all Vertebrata together with the Tunicata, or all those having a dorsal nervous cord.

(n.) An aromatic umbelliferous plant (Archangelica officinalis or Angelica archangelica) the leaf stalks of which are sometimes candied and used in confectionery, and the roots and seeds as an aromatic tonic.

(n.) The candied leaf stalks of angelica.

(n. pl.) A division of the Articulata, having the body formed of numerous rings or annular segments, and without jointed legs. The principal subdivisions are the Chaetopoda, including the Oligochaeta or earthworms and Polychaeta or marine worms; and the Hirudinea or leeches. See Chaetopoda.

(n. pl.) A class of articulate animals, nearly equivalent to Annelida, including the marine annelids, earthworms, Gephyrea, Gymnotoma, leeches, etc. See Annelida.

(n. pl.) A division of the Invertebrata, nearly equivalent to the Articulata. It includes the Arthoropoda and Anarthropoda. By some zoologists it is applied to the former only.

(n. pl.) A group of insects which includes the lice.

(n.) Alt. of Anorexy

(pl. ) of Antefix

(pl. ) of Anthelion

(n. pl.) The class of the Coelenterata which includes the corals and sea anemones. The three principal groups or orders are Acyonaria, Actinaria, and Madreporaria.

(n.) Alt. of Asphyxy

(n.) The absence or loss of the power of expressing ideas by written signs. It is one form of aphasia.

(n.) Paralysis of the motor nerves; loss of movement.

(n.) Alt. of Alilonghi

(pl. ) of Pycnidium

(n. pl.) See Larvalla.

(n. pl.) An order of Entomostraca, including many minute Crustacea, both fresh-water and marine.

(n.) A genus of neuropterous insects. See Lacewing.

(n.) A morbid condition in which the urine contains chyle or fatty matter, giving it a milky appearance.

(n.) The chick-pea.

(n.) A genus of trees growing naturally on the Andes in Peru and adjacent countries, but now cultivated in the East Indies, producing a medicinal bark of great value.

(n.) The bark of any species of Cinchona containing three per cent. or more of bitter febrifuge alkaloids; Peruvian bark; Jesuits' bark.

(pl. ) of Credendum

(n. pl.) An order of fresh-water rhizopods having a more or less globular form, with slender radiating pseudopodia; the sun animalcule.

(n.) A circumscribed swelling produced by an effusion of blood beneath the skin.

(n.) A constitutional disease, generally hereditary, especially manifested by chronic enlargement and cheesy degeneration of the lymphatic glands, particularly those of the neck, and marked by a tendency to the development of chronic intractable inflammations of the skin, mucous membrane, bones, joints, and other parts, and by a diminution in the power of resistance to disease or injury and the capacity for recovery. Scrofula is now generally held to be tuberculous in character, and may develop into general or local tuberculosis (consumption).

(a.) A comic operetta; a music farce.

(n. pl.) See Scutellum.

(n.) See Scutellum, n., 2.

(pl. ) of Scutellum

(n.) A genus of oceanic nudibranchiate mollusks having the small branched gills situated on the upper side of four fleshy lateral lobes, and on the median caudal crest.

(n. pl.) An order of reptiles, including the tortoises and turtles, peculiar in having a part of the vertebrae, ribs, and sternum united with the dermal plates so as to form a firm shell. The jaws are covered by a horny beak. See Reptilia; also, Illust. in Appendix.

(n.) A cartilaginous fish of several species, belonging to the order Holocephali. The teeth are few and large. The head is furnished with appendages, and the tail terminates in a point.

() See Cinchona.

(n.) Gout in the hand.

(n.) A cutaneous affection characterized by yellow or yellowish brown pigmented spots.

(pl. ) of Collyrium

(n.) A kind of curve; one of the conic sections formed by the intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane parallel to one of its sides. It is a curve, any point of which is equally distant from a fixed point, called the focus, and a fixed straight line, called the directrix. See Focus.

(n.) One of a group of curves defined by the equation y = axn where n is a positive whole number or a positive fraction. For the cubical parabola n = 3; for the semicubical parabola n = /. See under Cubical, and Semicubical. The parabolas have infinite branches, but no rectilineal asymptotes.

(pl. ) of Myxoma

(n. pl.) A division of marsupials, including the opossums.

(pl. ) of Miasma

(n. pl.) An order of lamellibranchiate mollusks having an anterior and posterior adductor muscle, as the common clam. See Bivalve.

(n.) A genus of large sea birds, including the albatross. See Albatross.

(n.) A genus of liliaceous plants with woody stems and funnel-shaped flowers.

(n.) Alt. of Diplopy

(n.) An extensive and curious genus of African plants of the natural order Asclepiadaceae (Milkweed family). They are succulent plants without leaves, frequently covered with dark tubercles giving them a very grotesque appearance. The odor of the blossoms is like that of carrion.

(n.) A picture representing scenes too extended to be beheld at once, and so exhibited a part at a time, by being unrolled, and made to pass continuously before the spectator.

(n.) A short and simple sonata.

(n.) Same as Rhachilla.

(pl. ) of Radiale

(n.) A large South American snake of the Boa family (Eunectes murinus), which lives near rivers, and preys on birds and small mammals. The name is also applied to a similar large serpent (Python tigris) of Ceylon.

(n. pl.) A collection of literary fragments.

(n.) An orthographic projection of the sphere on the plane of the meridian, the eye being supposed at an infinite distance, and in the east or west point of the horizon.

(n.) An instrument of wood or brass, on which this projection of the sphere is made, having a movable horizon or cursor; -- formerly much used in solving some common astronomical problems.

(n.) A scale of the sun's declination for each day of the year, drawn across the torrid zone on an artificial terrestrial globe.

(n.) A repetition of a word or of words at the beginning of two or more successive clauses.

(n.) Dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue; an effusion of serum into the cellular substance, occasioning a soft, pale, inelastic swelling of the skin.

(n.) A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, and accompanied by excommunication. Hence: Denunciation of anything as accursed.

(n.) An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.

(n.) Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority.

(n.) Alt. of Astheny

(n.) A large genus of American, mostly tropical, climbing shrubs, having compound leaves and showy somewhat tubular flowers. B. capreolata is the cross vine of the Southern United States. The trumpet creeper was formerly considered to be of this genus.

(n.) Alt. of Ataraxy

(n. pl.) A division of Hydroidea in which the zooids are naked, or not inclosed in a capsule. See Tubularian.

(pl. ) of Athenaeum

(n.) An encysted tumor containing curdy matter.

(n.) A disease characterized by thickening and fatty degeneration of the inner coat of the arteries.

(n.) A ravine caused by heavy rains or a watercourse.

(n.) Originally, the place of a king; but afterward, an apartment provided in the houses of persons of importance, where assemblies were held for dispensing justice; and hence, any large hall used for this purpose.

(n.) A building used by the Romans as a place of public meeting, with court rooms, etc., attached.

(n.) A church building of the earlier centuries of Christianity, the plan of which was taken from the basilica of the Romans. The name is still applied to some churches by way of honorary distinction.

(n.) A digest of the laws of Justinian, translated from the original Latin into Greek, by order of Basil I., in the ninth century.

(n.) A species of Primula, or primrose, called also, from the shape of its leaves, bear's-ear.

(n.) A species of Hirneola (H. auricula), a membranaceous fungus, called also auricula Judae, or Jew's-ear.

(n.) A genus of air-breathing mollusks mostly found near the sea, where the water is brackish

(n.) One of the five arched processes of the shell around the jaws of a sea urchin.

(n.) The structureless, protoplasmic tissue of the embryo; the primitive basis of an organ yet unformed, from which it grows.

(n.) The Carob, a leguminous tree of the Mediterranean region; also, its edible beans or pods, called St. John's bread.

(n.) The Honey mesquite (Prosopis juliflora), a small tree found from California to Buenos Ayres; also, its sweet, pulpy pods. A valuable gum, resembling gum arabic, is collected from the tree in Texas and Mexico.

(n.) The palace of the Moorish kings at Granada.

(n.) A car or chariot drawn by four horses abreast.

(n.) Alt. of Apyrexy

(n.) Alt. of Alleluiah

(n. pl.) Alt. of Araneoidea

(n. pl.) The order of Arachnida that includes the spiders.

(n.) A large fresh-water food fish of South America.

(pl. ) of Arboretum

(n.) Alt. of Alopecy

(n. pl.) A group of Arachnida. See Illust. in Appendix.

(n.) The fabled food of the gods (as nectar was their drink), which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it.

(n.) An unguent of the gods.

(n.) A perfumed unguent, salve, or draught; something very pleasing to the taste or smell.

(n.) Formerly, a kind of fragrant plant; now (Bot.), a genus of plants, including some coarse and worthless weeds, called ragweed, hogweed, etc.

(n. pl.) One of the classes of vertebrates.

(pl. ) of Amphibium

(n.) A genus of amphibians, inhabiting the Southern United States, having a serpentlike form, but with four minute limbs and two persistent gill openings; the Congo snake.

(n.) The more ancient of the two great epic poems in Sanskrit. The hero and heroine are Rama and his wife Sita.

(n.) That stage in the development of the ovum in which the outer cells of the morula become more defined and form the blastoderm.

(n.) Order of battle; disposition or arrangement of troops (brigades, regiments, battalions, etc.), or of a naval force, for action.

(n.) An army in battle array; also, the main battalia or body.

(pl. ) of Automaton

(n.) The birds, or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting a region.

(n.p.) See Bacterium.

(pl. ) of Bacterium

(n.) An ancient military engine, in the form of a crossbow, used for hurling large missiles.

(n.) A square cap worn by ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic Church. A cardinal's berretta is scarlet; that worn by other clerics is black, except that a bishop's is lined with green.

(n.) A name applied to various species of edible fishes of the genus Serranus, and related genera, inhabiting the Meditarranean, the coast of California, etc. In California, some of them are also called rock bass and kelp salmon.

(n.) Alt. of Cachexy

(n.) An Andalusian dance in three-four time, resembling the bolero.

(pl. ) of Reticulum

(n.) One of the group of pigmented cells which surround the retinophorae of invertebrates. See Illust. under Ommatidium.

(pl. ) of Calcar

(n.) A genus of beautiful South American passerine birds, including the cock of the rock.

(n.) The bones of the cranium; more especially, the bones of the domelike upper portion.

(n.) A little hood or veil, resembling an extinguisher in form and position, covering each of the small flasklike capsules which contain the spores of mosses; also, any similar covering body.

(n.) An Asiatic genus of small shrubs, often with shining leaves and showy flowers. Camellia Japonica is much cultivated for ornament, and C. Sassanqua and C. oleifera are grown in China for the oil which is pressed from their seeds. The tea plant is now referred to this genus under the name of Camellia Thea.

(n.) An open level tract of country; especially "Campagna di Roma." The extensive undulating plain which surrounds Rome.

(n.) Open country.

(n.) Alt. of Bandana

(n.) A gill; a respiratory organ for breathing the air contained in water, such as many aquatic and semiaquatic animals have.

(n.) A genus of plants embracing several species and varieties differing much in appearance and qualities: such as the common cabbage (B. oleracea), broccoli, cauliflowers, etc.; the wild turnip (B. campestris); the common turnip (B. rapa); the rape or coleseed (B. napus), etc.

() See Veda.

(n.) A silicle.

(n.) Any species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Saxicava. Some of the species are noted for their power of boring holes in limestone and similar rocks.

(n.) The official chair or throne of a bishop, or of any person in high authority.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of marine gastropods of the genus Scalaria, or family Scalaridae, having elongated spiral turreted shells, with rounded whorls, usually crossed by ribs or varices. The color is generally white or pale. Called also ladder shell, and wentletrap. See Ptenoglossa, and Wentletrap.

(n.) A long carriage, with a calash top, so constructed as to give space for reclining at night, when used on a journey.

(n.) Originally, a melody of simpler form than the aria; a song without a second part and a da capo; -- a term now variously and vaguely used.

(pl. ) of Schema

(n. pl.) The bronchial tubes which arise from the branching of the trachea, esp. the subdivision of the bronchi.

(n.) Neuralgia of the sciatic nerve, an affection characterized by paroxysmal attacks of pain in the buttock, back of the thigh, or in the leg or foot, following the course of the branches of the sciatic nerve. The name is also popularly applied to various painful affections of the hip and the parts adjoining it. See Ischiadic passion, under Ischiadic.

(n.) Induration of the cellular tissue.

(n.) Induration of the tissues. See Sclerema, Scleroderma, and Sclerosis.

(n.) The larval form of a trematode worm having the shape of a tadpole, with its body terminated by a tail-like appendage.

(pl. ) of Bucranium

(n. pl.) See Operculum.

(pl. ) of Operculum

(n.) A short, light, musical drama.

(n.) The potter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed.

(n. pl.) That division of the Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells, like the clams and oysters; -- so called because they have no evident head. Formerly the group included the Tunicata, Brachiopoda, and sometimes the Bryozoa. See Mollusca.

(n. pl.) A group of ungulate mammals including the hog and the hippopotamus. The term is also sometimes applied to the bears, and to certain passerine birds.

(n. pl.) Same as Taenioidea.

(n. pl.) A division of Ctenophora including those which have a long, ribbonlike body. The Venus's girdle is the most familiar example.

(pl. ) of Taenidium

(n.) One of the radial partitions which separate the internal cavities of certain medusae.

(n.) A genus of cretaceous fossil shells allied to the oyster.

(a.) See Guerrilla.

(pl. ) of Tarsale

(pl. ) of Ephemeron

(n.) The epidermal cells of rootlets, specially adapted to absorb liquids.

(n.) The watery eye; a disease in which the tears accumulate in the eye, and trickle over the cheek.

(n.) The emphatic repetition of a word or phrase, at the end of several sentences or stanzas.

(pl. ) of Epipodium

(n.) Alt. of Epistome

(n.) A continuous and, usually, structureless layer which covers more or less of the exterior of many corals.

(n.) A complete view in every direction.

(n.) An epic poem; epic poetry.

(n. pl.) Spongiae.

(pl. ) of Equisetum

(pl. ) of Sporidium

(n. pl.) An extensive division of parasitic Protozoa, which increase by sporulation. It includes the Gregarinida.

(n.) A gift; a present; a prize; hence, an alms; a largess.

(n.) Same as Duboisine.

(n. pl.) A group of chaetopod annelids, including those that are not confined to tubes. See Chaetopoda.

(n.) A disease of the skin, in which a diffused inflammation forms rose-colored patches of variable size.

(n.) A sweet-toned stop of an organ.

(n.) A mistress; a sweetheart.

(n.) Any unbranched, slender, green plant of the fresh-water algae. The word is frequently used in a wider sense.

(n.) Alt. of Coxalgy

(n.) The fine, hard parts of wheat, rounded by the attrition of the millstones, -- used in cookery.

(n.) A Roman coin equivalent to one twenty-fourth part of a Roman pound.

(n. pl.) A comprehensive division of the Vertebrata, including all those that have a skull.

(pl. ) of Sensorium

(n.) The fiery cross, used as a rallying signal in the Highlands of Scotland.

(pl. ) of Septarium

(n.) See Capybara.

(n.) A genus of plants related to the banana.

(a.) An order of mammals having two (rarely four) large incisor teeth in each jaw, distant from the molar teeth. The rats, squirrels, rabbits, marmots, and beavers belong to this order.

(pl. ) of Rostellum

(n.) An order of minute worms which usually have one or two groups of vibrating cilia on the head, which, when in motion, often give an appearance of rapidly revolving wheels. The species are very numerous in fresh waters, and are very diversified in form and habits.

(n. pl.) A class of air-breathing oviparous vertebrates, usually covered with scales or bony plates. The heart generally has two auricles and one ventricle. The development of the young is the same as that of birds.

(n. pl.) See Capitulum.

(n.) See A cappella.

(pl. ) of Claustrum

(n.) A large South American rodent (Hydrochaerus capybara) Living on the margins of lakes and rivers. It is the largest extant rodent, being about three feet long, and half that in height. It somewhat resembles the Guinea pig, to which it is related; -- called also cabiai and water hog.

(n.) A south American bird of several species and genera, resembling both the eagles and the vultures. The caracaras act as scavengers, and are also called carrion buzzards.

(n.) A light vessel or proa used by the people of Borneo, etc., and by the Dutch in the East Indies.

(n.) The Brazilian wax palm. See Wax palm.

(n.) A Brazilian tree. See Lecythis, and Monkey-pot.

(pl. ) of Carpale

(n.) One of the elements of reference by which a point, as of a curve, is referred to a system of fixed rectilineal coordinate axes.

(n. pl.) A comprehensive group equivalent to the true Coelenterata, i. e., exclusive of the sponges. They are so named from presence of stinging cells (cnidae) in the tissues. See Coelenterata.

(n.) A genus of nut-bearing trees or shrubs including the chestnut and chinquapin.

(n.) America; the United States; -- a poetical appellation given in honor of Columbus, the discoverer.

(n.) A crinoid of the genus Antedon and related genera. When young they are fixed by a stem. When adult they become detached and cling to seaweeds, etc., by their dorsal cirri; -- called also feather stars.

(n. pl.) A division of edentates having the body covered with large, imbricated horny scales. It includes the pangolins.

(n.) One of the little hypogynous scales found in the flowers of grasses; a lodicule.

(n.) Alt. of Serenate

(pl. ) of Criterion

(n.) A certain reed stop in the organ, of a quality of tone resembling that of the oboe.

(n. pl.) The order of Crustacea which includes the shrimps, lobsters, crabs, etc.

(n. pl.) A division of the dibranchiate cephalopods including the cuttlefishes and squids. See Decacera.

(pl. ) of Decennium

(a.) Of or pertaining to the deeper parts of the sea; as, a deep-sea line (i. e., a line to take soundings at a great depth); deep-sea lead; deep-sea soundings, explorations, etc.

(n. pl.) The earliest abode; original dwelling place; originals; as, the cunabula of the human race.

(n. pl.) The extant copies of the first or earliest printed books, or of such as were printed in the 15th century.

(n.) A grazing; a country house.

(n.) Difficulty of breathing.

(n.) Difficult delivery pr parturition.

(n.) A "brotherhood," or collection of stamens in a bundle; -- used in composition, as in the class names, Monadelphia, Diadelphia, etc.

(pl. ) of Gymnasium

(n.) A large estate where work of any kind is done, as agriculture, manufacturing, mining, or raising of animals; a cultivated farm, with a good house, in distinction from a farming establishment with rude huts for herdsmen, etc.; -- a word used in Spanish-American regions.

(pl. ) of Tegmentum

(n.) A small opening; esp., one of the apertures, closed by membranes, between the tympanum and internal ear.

(n.) The peculiar free swimming larva of Balanoglossus. See Illust. in Append.

(n.) An unleavened cake, as of maize flour, baked on a heated iron or stone.

(n.) A transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone.

(n.) Considerable debility of the vital powers, as in typhoid fever.

(n.pl.) Same as Toxoglossa.

(n.) Sarcolemma.

(n. pl.) The Infusoria.

(n.) Alt. of Mazurka

(n. pl.) An order of Tunicata, including Appendicularia, and allied genera; -- so called because certain larval features are retained by them through life. Called also Copelata. See Appendicularia.

(n.) Any one of several species of marine gastropods belonging to Velutina and allied genera.

(n.) A blood feud; private revenge for the murder of a kinsman.

(n.) Veratrine.

(n.) See Ianthina.

(n.) A species of Camellia (Camellia Japonica), a native of Japan, bearing beautiful red or white flowers. Many other genera have species of the same name.

(n.) A poisonous serpent of Brazil (Bothrops jararaca), about eighteen inches long, and of a dusky, brownish color, variegated with red and black spots.

(n.) Cowpox; vaccina. See Cowpox.

(n.) Same as Aconitine.

(n.) A viverrine mammal of Madagascar (Eupleres Goudotii), allied to the civet; -- called also Falanouc.

(n.) A genus of plants, including the mangosteen tree (Garcinia Mangostana), found in the islands of the Indian Archipelago; -- so called in honor of Dr. Garcin.

(n.) A genus of plants, some species of which produce beautiful and fragrant flowers; Cape jasmine; -- so called in honor of Dr. Alexander Garden.

(n.) A primeval larval form; a double-walled sac from which, according to the hypothesis of Haeckel, man and all other animals, that in the first stages of their individual evolution pass through a two-layered structural stage, or gastrula form, must have descended. This idea constitutes the Gastraea theory of Haeckel. See Gastrula.

(n.) A former name for a euphorbiaceous genus (Hevea) of South American trees, the principal source of caoutchouc.

(pl. ) of Siphonium

(n.) Alt. of Siserary

(n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants having two stamens.

(n.) Alt. of Diarrhoea

(n.) A vacant space, or gap, esp. between teeth in a jaw.

(n.) An extinct eocene bird from New Mexico, larger than the ostrich.

(n.) A genus of herbaceous plants, with racemes of two-spurred or heart-shaped flowers, including the Dutchman's breeches, and the more showy Bleeding heart (D. spectabilis).

(n.) See Dicentra.

(n.) A handsome fish of Florida and the West Indies (Platyglossus radiatus). The name is applied also to the ladyfish (Harpe rufa) of the same region.

(n.) A myotome.

(n.) A continuous composition, not divided into what are called movements, or governed by the ordinary rules of musical design, but in which the author's fancy roves unrestricted by set form.

(n.) An embryonic form having its origin in the invagination or pushing in of the wall of the planula or blastula (the blastosphere) on one side, thus giving rise to a double-walled sac, with one opening or mouth (the blastopore) which leads into the cavity (the archenteron) lined by the inner wall (the hypoblast). See Illust. under Invagination. In a more general sense, an ideal stage in embryonic development. See Gastraea.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a gastrula.

(n.) A cyst containing matter like suet.

(pl. ) of Stemma

(pl. ) of Stigma

(n.) pl. of Stigma.

(n. pl.) A division of Carnivora, including the dogs, wolves, and foxes.

(n. pl.) An order of Crinoidea, mostly fossils of the Paleozoic rocks. They were usually roundish or egg-shaped, and often unsymmetrical; some were sessile, others had short stems.

(n.) The title of the wife of the czarowitz.

(n.) A genus of trilobites, of many species, common in the Upper Silurian and Devonian rocks.

(n.) Insanity; madness; esp. that form which consists in weakness or total loss of thought and reason; mental imbecility; idiocy.

(n.) The epithelial lining of the ventricles of the brain and the canal of the spinal cord; endyma; ependymis.

(n.) A fever of one day's continuance only.

(n.) A genus of insects including the day flies, or ephemeral flies. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral.

(n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants, whose stamens and pistils are in distinct flowers in the same plant.

(n.) A band of gray matter bordering the fimbria in the brain; the dentate convolution.

(pl. ) of Trapezium

(n. pl.) The division of Mollusca which includes the land snails and slugs.

(n. pl.) An order of marine Annelida, in which the body is imperfectly, or not at all, annulated externally, and is mostly without setae.

(n.) The tissue which fills the interspaces between the costae of many madreporarian corals, usually consisting of small transverse or oblique septa.

(n.) a short, condensed fugue.

(n.) A genus of land snails, often large, common in the warm parts of America and Africa.

(n.) A germ in that stage of development in which its form is simply that of a non-nucleated mass of protoplasm. It precedes the one-celled germ. So called from its likeness to a moner.

(n. pl.) One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom, including the classes Cephalopoda, Gastropoda, PteropodaScaphopoda, and Lamellibranchiata, or Conchifera. These animals have an unsegmented bilateral body, with most of the organs and parts paired, but not repeated longitudinally. Most of them develop a mantle, which incloses either a branchial or a pulmonary cavity. They are generally more or less covered and protected by a calcareous shell, which may be univalve, bivalve, or multivalve.

(n.) A genus of gelatinous fungi found in moist grounds.

(n.) A form of the larva of certain Discophora in a state of development succeeding the scyphistoma. The body of the strobila becomes elongated, and subdivides transversely into a series of lobate segments which eventually become ephyrae, or young medusae.

(n.) A mature tapeworm.

(pl. ) of Stroma

(n.) An earth of a white color resembling lime in appearance, and baryta in many of its properties. It is an oxide of the metal strontium.

(n.) A small, slender nematoid worm (Trichina spiralis) which, in the larval state, is parasitic, often in immense numbers, in the voluntary muscles of man, the hog, and many other animals. When insufficiently cooked meat containing the larvae is swallowed by man, they are liberated and rapidly become adult, pair, and the ovoviviparous females produce in a short time large numbers of young which find their way into the muscles, either directly, or indirectly by means of the blood. Their presence in the muscles and the intestines in large numbers produces trichinosis.

(n.) A little sheath, as that about the base of the pedicel of most mosses.

(n.) One of the tubular florets in composite flowers.

(n.) A kind of woven fabric for waistcoats, having the weft of wool and the warp of silk or cotton.

(n.) See Valencia.

(n.) The palace of immortality, inhabited by the souls of heroes slain in battle.

(n.) Fig.: A hall or temple adorned with statues and memorials of a nation's heroes; specifically, the Pantheon near Ratisbon, in Bavaria, consecrated to the illustrious dead of all Germany.

(n.) One of the maidens of Odin, represented as awful and beautiful, who presided over battle and marked out those who were to be slain, and who also ministered at the feasts of heroes in Valhalla.

(n.) See Valhalla.

(n.) An Asiatic and North African shrub (Lawsonia inermis), with smooth oval leaves, and fragrant white flowers. Henna is prepared from the leaves and twigs. In England the shrub is called Egyptian privet, and in the West Indies, Jamaica mignonette.

(n.) A portrait or representation of the face of our Savior on the alleged handkerchief of Saint Veronica, preserved at Rome; hence, a representation of this portrait, or any similar representation of the face of the Savior. Formerly called also Vernacle, and Vernicle.

(n.) A genus scrophulariaceous plants; the speedwell. See Speedwell.

(n.) One of the serial segments of the spinal column.

(n.) One of the central ossicles in each joint of the arms of an ophiuran.

(n.) A species of pea (Amphicarpaea monoica). It is a climbing leguminous plant, with hairy underground pods.

(n.) The public legislative assembly of the Athenians.

(n.) A church, either as a body or as a building.

(n.) Alt. of Eupepsy

(n. pl.) See Fossores.

(n. pl.) An order of mammals including the armadillos, sloths, and anteaters; -- called also Bruta. The incisor teeth are rarely developed, and in some groups all the teeth are lacking.

(pl. ) of Fraenulum

(pl. ) of Effluvium

(n.) A hardy garden shrub (Diervilla Japonica) belonging to the Honeysuckle family, with white or red flowers. It was introduced from China.

(n.) A vesicle.

(n.) One of the specialized or tactile hairs which grow about the nostrils, or on other parts of the face, in many animals, as the so-called whiskers of the cat, and the hairs of the nostrils of man.

(n.) The bristlelike feathers near the mouth of many birds.

(n.) A genus of aquatic plants named in honor of Queen Victoria. The Victoria regia is a native of Guiana and Brazil. Its large, spreading leaves are often over five feet in diameter, and have a rim from three to five inches high; its immense rose-white flowers sometimes attain a diameter of nearly two feet.

(n.) A kind of low four-wheeled pleasure carriage, with a calash top, designed for two persons and the driver who occupies a high seat in front.

(n.) An asteroid discovered by Hind in 1850; -- called also Clio.

(n.) A genus of very large marine bivalve shells found on the coral reefs of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. One species (T. gigas) often weighs four or five hundred pounds, and is sometimes used for baptismal fonts. Called also paw shell, and fountain shell.

(n.) The space between the eyebrows, also including the corresponding part of the frontal bone; the mesophryon.

(pl. ) of Glabellum

(n. pl.) A kind of embryo of certain hydroids (Tubularia), having a stellate form.

(n.) A genus of pearly bivalve shells, numerous extinct species of which are characteristic of the Mesozoic rocks. A few living species exist on the coast of Australia.

(n. pl.) A Linnaean order of plants having three pistils or styles.

(n.) A syllogism with three conditional propositions, the major premises of which are disjunctively affirmed in the minor. See Dilemma.

(n.) A state of things in which it is difficult to determine which one of three courses to pursue.

(n.) Dimness or abolition of sight, with a diminution of transparency, a bluish or greenish tinge of the refracting media of the eye, and a hard inelastic condition of the eyeball, with marked increase of tension within the eyeball.

(pl. ) of Submentum

(n.) A writ commanding the attendance in court, as a witness, of the person on whom it is served, under a penalty; the process by which a defendant in equity is commanded to appear and answer the plaintiff's bill.

(v. t.) To serve with a writ of subpoena; to command attendance in court by a legal writ, under a penalty in case of disobedience.

(n.) A genus of climbing plants with very showy lilylike blossoms, natives of India.

(n. pl.) The Lepidoptera.

(n.) American genus of herbaceous plants with very handsome bell-shaped blossoms; -- named after B. P. Gloxin, a German botanist.

(n.) A pulley.

(n.) A pulley, or a structure resembling a pulley; as, the trochlea, or pulleylike end, of the humerus, which articulates with the ulna; or the trochlea, or fibrous ring, in the upper part of the orbit, through which the superior oblique, or trochlear, muscle of the eye passes.

(n.) Alt. of Glumelle

(n. pl.) An order of Infusoria having the body armed with somewhat stiff, tubular processes which they use as suckers in obtaining their food. They are usually stalked.

(n. pl.) Same as Rhizocephala.

(n. pl) Minute vesicles surrounded by an area of reddened skin, produced by excessive sweating.

(n.) Calvary. See the Note under Calvary.

(n.) A genus of spiral gastropod shells, often of large size, characteristic of the lower Silurian rocks.

(n.) A nervous affection, occurring almost exclusively in women, in which the emotional and reflex excitability is exaggerated, and the will power correspondingly diminished, so that the patient loses control over the emotions, becomes the victim of imaginary sensations, and often falls into paroxism or fits.

(n.) Any gastropod of the genus Ianthina, of which various species are found living in mid ocean; -- called also purple shell, and violet snail.

(n. pl.) An extensive group of mammals including all those that have hoofs. It comprises the Artiodactyla and Perissodactyla.

() Alt. of Isabella color

(n.) A light earthy white substance, consisting of magnesium oxide, and obtained by heating magnesium hydrate or carbonate, or by burning magnesium. It has a slightly alkaline reaction, and is used in medicine as a mild antacid laxative. See Magnesium.

(n.) A genus of American and Asiatic trees, with aromatic bark and large sweet-scented whitish or reddish flowers.

(n.) One of a numerous people inhabiting the southwestern part of India. Also, the language of the Mahrattas; Mahrati. It is closely allied to Sanskrit.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Mahrattas.

(n.) Alt. of Hemiopsia

(pl. ) of Foramen

(n.) A genus of pretty spring flowers closely related to Anemone; squirrel cup.

(n.) Any plant, usually procumbent and mosslike, of the cryptogamous class Hepaticae; -- called also scale moss and liverwort. See Hepaticae, in the Supplement.

(pl. ) of Herbarium

(pl. ) of Tibiale

(n. pl.) The true, or six-legged, insects; insects other than myriapods and arachnids.

(pl. ) of Tenaculum

(n.) A tumor, sometimes found in newborn children, which is made up of a heterigenous mixture of tissues, as of bone, cartilage and muscle.

(n.) A minute thread of fiber, as one of the fibrous elements of a muscular fiber; a fibril.

(n. pl.) Invertebrate animals covered with shells, especially mollusks; shellfish.

(sing.) A Bible consisting of four different Greek versions arranged in four columns by Origen; hence, any version in four languages or four columns.

(n.) A New Zealand lizard, which, in anatomical character, differs widely from all other existing lizards. It is the only living representative of the order Rhynchocephala, of which many Mesozoic fossil species are known; -- called also Sphenodon, and Tuatera.

(pl. ) of Flagellum

(n.) A sort of bagpipe formerly in use among Italian peasants. It is now almost obsolete.

(n.) The oxide of zirconium, obtained as a white powder, and possessing both acid and basic properties. On account of its infusibility, and brilliant luminosity when incandescent, it is used as an ingredient of sticks for the Drummomd light.

(n.) A genus of climbing leguminous plants bearing long, pendulous clusters of pale bluish flowers.

(n.) A colony or mass of bacteria imbedded in a viscous gelatinous substance. The zoogloea is characteristic of a transitory stage through which rapidly multiplying bacteria pass in the course of their evolution. Also used adjectively.

(n. pl.) An artificial group comprising various carnivorous and insectivorous animals.

(n. pl.) An extensive artificial and heterogeneous group of animals, formerly adopted by many zoologists. It included the c/lenterates, echinoderms, sponges, Bryozoa, Protozoa, etc.

(n.) The step, or raised secondary part, of an altar; a superaltar; hence, in Italian painting, a band or frieze of several pictures running along the front of a superaltar, or forming a border or frame at the foot of an altarpiece.

(pl. ) of Pollinium

(n.) A genus of bitter herbs or shrubs having eight stamens and a two-celled ovary (as the Seneca snakeroot, the flowering wintergreen, etc.); milkwort.

(n.) See Polyhymnia.

(n.) A genus of large oceanic Siphonophora which includes the Portuguese man-of-war.

(pl. ) of Phytozoon

(n.) A fibrous product of two Brazilian palm trees (Attalea funifera and Leopoldinia Piassaba), -- used in making brooms, and for other purposes. Called also piacaba and piasaba.

(n. pl.) A grand division of the Invertebrata, including the sponges; -- called also Spongiae, Spongida, and Spongiozoa. The principal divisions are Calcispongiae, Keratosa or Fibrospongiae, and Silicea.

(n.) A genus of halcyonoids in which the skeleton, or coral (called organ-pipe coral), consists of a mass of parallel cylindrical tubes united at intervals by transverse plates. These corals are usually red or purple and form large masses. They are natives of the tropical parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

(pl. ) of Gonangium

(n.) A genus of Gorgoniacea, formerly very extensive, but now restricted to such species as the West Indian sea fan (Gorgonia flabellum), sea plume (G. setosa), and other allied species having a flexible, horny axis.

(n.) Any slender branched gorgonian.

(n. pl.) A grand division of the animal kingdom, intermediate, in some respects, between the invertebrates and vertebrates, and by some writers united with the latter. They were formerly classed with acephalous mollusks. The body is usually covered with a firm external tunic, consisting in part of cellulose, and having two openings, one for the entrance and one for the exit of water. The pharynx is usually dilated in the form of a sac, pierced by several series of ciliated slits, and serves as a gill.

(n.) Small grains or dust of cochineal or the coccus insect.

(n. pl.) An order of small apterous insects having an elongated body, with three pairs of thoracic and about nine pairs of abdominal legs. They are, in many respects, intermediate between myriapods and true insects.

(pl. ) of Sympodium

(pl. ) of Symposium

(pl. ) of Synangium

(n.) A disease of the eye, in which the iris adheres to the cornea or to the capsule of the crystalline lens.

(n. pl.) An artificial group of stony corals including those which have transverse septa in the calicles. The genera Pocillopora and Favosites are examples.

(n. pl.) Distinguishing marks of authority, office, or honor; badges; tokens; decorations; as, the insignia of royalty or of an order.

(n. pl.) Typical and characteristic marks or signs, by which anything is known or distinguished; as, the insignia of a trade.

(n.) Want of sleep; inability to sleep; wakefulness; sleeplessness.

(n. pl.) The Acalephae; one of the classes of coelenterates, including the Hydroidea, Discophora, and Siphonophora.

(pl. ) of Hydrozoon

(n. pl.) A division of marine chaetopod annelids which are furnished with uncini, as the serpulas and sabellas.

(n.) The inferior vena cava.

(pl. ) of Pterygium

(n.) Angina, or angina pectoris.

(n.) Thrush.

(n.) Alt. of Prunello

(n.) The superior vena cava.

(n. pl.) The lowest of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom.

(pl. ) of Protozoon

(n. pl.) A provisional group in which are placed a number of low microscopic organisms of doubtful nature. Some are probably plants, others animals.

(pl. ) of Protiston

(n.) The bearded tortoise (Chelys fimbriata) of South American rivers.

(n.) A tumor having a structure resembling that of a lymphatic gland; -- called also lymphadenoma.

(pl. ) of Marsupium

(n.) A small marmoset (Midas rosalia); the silky tamarin.

(pl. ) of Manubrium

(n.) Alt. of Metabole

(n. pl.) Alt. of Metabolia

(n.) A lady's light cloak of cape of silk, velvet, lace, or the like.

(n.) A kind of veil, covering the head and falling down upon the shoulders; -- worn in Spain, Mexico, etc.

(n.) The decimal part of a logarithm, as distinguished from the integral part, or characteristic.

(n. pl.) A suborder of edentates, covered with bony plates, including the armadillos.

(n. pl.) The crocodilia.

(n.) See Manioc.

(n. pl.) The highest class of Vertebrata. The young are nourished for a time by milk, or an analogous fluid, secreted by the mammary glands of the mother.

(n.) The nipple.

(n.) Sycosis.

(n.) Alt. of Menopome

(pl. ) of Menstruum

(n.) A genus of small spiral pteropods, common in the Arctic and Antarctic seas. It contributes to the food of the right whales.

(n.) The name of a genus of trees, including the tree which bears the pistachio, the Mediterranean mastic tree (Pistacia Lentiscus), and the species (P. Terebinthus) which yields Chian or Cyprus turpentine.

(n.) The eyelid.

(n. pl.) Public moneys expended at Athens on festivals, sacrifices, and public entertainments (especially theatrical performances), and in gifts to the people; -- also called theoric fund.

(n.) Same as Heartseed.

(n.) An ancient composition esteemed efficacious against the effects of poison; especially, a certain compound of sixty-four drugs, prepared, pulverized, and reduced by means of honey to an electuary; -- called also theriaca Andromachi, and Venice treacle.

(n.) Treacle; molasses.

(n.) A little fleet, or a fleet of small vessels.

(pl. ) of Opusculum

(n.) A nebula.

(n.) Specifically, the Magellanic clouds.

(n.) A slight spot on the cornea.

(n.) A cloudy object or appearance in urine.

(n.) A genus of minute living Foraminifera having a globular shell.

(n.) A genus of aquatic plants having showy flowers (white, blue, pink, or yellow, often fragrant), including the white water lily and the Egyptia lotus.

(n. pl.) See Viperoidea.

(n.) One of the States of the United States of America.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the State of Virginia.

(n.) Alt. of Viz-cacha

(n.) One of the transparent lenslike cells in the ocelli of certain arthropods.

(n. pl.) An artificial division of vertebrates including those that produce their young alive; -- opposed to Ovipara.

(n.) Same as Viscacha.

(n.) A condition in which fat occurs in the blood.

(n.) Same as Vansire.

(n.) A kind of pottery, with opaque glazing and showy, which reached its greatest perfection in Italy in the 16th century.

(pl. ) of Ossiculum

(n. pl.) A division of bivalve mollusks including the oysters and allied shells.

(pl. ) of Occiput

(n.pl.) Same as Octocerata.

(n.pl.) Same as Arachnida.

(n.) The part of a pistil or fruit to which the ovules or seeds are attached.

(n.) A shade, screen, or guard, carried in the hand for sheltering the person from the rays of the sun, or from rain or snow. It is formed of silk, cotton, or other fabric, extended on strips of whalebone, steel, or other elastic material, inserted, or fastened to, a rod or stick by means of pivots or hinges, in such a way as to allow of being opened and closed with ease. See Parasol.

(n.) The umbrellalike disk, or swimming bell, of a jellyfish.

(n.) Any marine tectibranchiate gastropod of the genus Umbrella, having an umbrella-shaped shell; -- called also umbrella shell.

(pl. ) of Ultimatum

(n.) The empress of Russia. See Czarina.

(n. pl.) A tribe of ungulates comprising the camels.

(n.) A diminutive lacinia.

(n.) A genus of spreading shrubs with many stems, from one species of which (K. triandra), found in Peru, rhatany root, used as a medicine, is obtained.

(n.) Mental derangement; insanity.

(n. pl.) An artificial group formerly made for parasitic insects, as lice, ticks, mites, etc.

(n. pl.) A division of copepod Crustacea, having a sucking mouth, as the lerneans. They are mostly parasites on fishes. Called also Siphonostomata.

(n.) Same as Perisome.

(pl. ) of Parhelion

(n.) Overfullness; especially, excessive fullness of the blood vessels; repletion; that state of the blood vessels or of the system when the blood exceeds a healthy standard in quantity; hyperaemia; -- opposed to anaemia.

(n.) State of being overfull; excess; superabundance.

(pl. ) of Zygantrum

(n.) A picture presenting a view of objects in every direction, as from a central point.

(n.) A fever accompanied by an eruption of small, isolated, red pimples, resembling a millet seed in form or size; miliary fever.

(n.) A skin disease marked by the development or irregular yellowish patches upon the skin, especially upon the eyelids; -- called also xanthelasma.

(n.) A genus of hymenopterous insects including the carpenter. See Carpenter bee, under Carpenter.

(n.) A genus of marine bivalves closely allied to Teredo, and equally destructive to timber. One species (Xylotrya fimbriata) is very common on the Atlantic coast of the United States.

(n.) A cape, with a small hood; -- worn by the pope and other dignitaries of the Roman Catholic Church.

(n.) The time of the new moon; the beginning of the month in the lunar calendar.

(n.) A genus including numerous species of shells resembling Nerita in form. They mostly inhabit brackish water, and are often delicately tinted.

(n.) Any species of turbellarian worms belonging to Planaria, and many allied genera. The body is usually flat, thin, and smooth. Some species, in warm countries, are terrestrial.

(n.) A cactaceous shrub (Cereus Pitajaya) of tropical America, which yields a delicious fruit.

(n.) An erythematous affection of the skin, with severe constitutional and nervous symptoms, endemic in Northern Italy.

(n.) The nativity of our Lord.

(n.) The last day.

(n.) pain in the foot, due to gout, rheumatism, etc.

(n. pl.) A group of herbivorous marsupials including the kangaroos and their allies.

(n.) The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth.

(n.) An incomplete or partial shadow.

(n.) The shadow cast, in an eclipse, where the light is partly, but not wholly, cut off by the intervening body; the space of partial illumination between the umbra, or perfect shadow, on all sides, and the full light.

(n.) The part of a picture where the shade imperceptibly blends with the light.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of freshwater pectinibranchiate mollusks, belonging to Paludina, Melantho, and allied genera. They have an operculated shell which is usually green, often with brown bands. See Illust. of Pond snail, under Pond.

(n. pl.) A division of Diptera in which the young are born in a stage like the pupa. It includes the sheep tick, horse tick, and other parasites. Called also Homaloptera.

(n. pl.) A group of parasitic Hymenoptera, including the ichneumon flies, which destroy the larvae and pupae of insects.

(n.) A wrestling school; hence, a gymnasium, or place for athletic exercise in general.

(n.) A wrestling; the exercise of wrestling.