(n.) The Manila-hemp plant (Musa textilis); also, its fiber. See Manila hemp under Manila.

(n.) The rhinoceros.

(n.) A genus of lizards, one of the few which feed upon vegetable substances; also, one of these lizards.

(pl. ) of Antrum

(n. pl.) One of the orders of amphibians characterized by the absence of a tail, as the frogs and toads.

(n.) The great artery which carries the blood from the heart to all parts of the body except the lungs; the main trunk of the arterial system.

(n.) An assembly; hence, the place of assembly, especially the market place, in an ancient Greek city.

(n.) A group of cirripeds, destitute of footlike organs.

(n.) An order of Amphibia without feet. See Ophiomorpha.

(n.) A group of worms without appendages, as the leech.

(n.) A character or point [,] marking the smallest divisions of a sentence, written or printed.

(n.) A small interval (the difference between a major and minor half step), seldom used except by tuners.

(n.) The dried meat of the cocoanut, from which cocoanut oil is expressed.

(n.) A sedgelike plant (Cyperus esculentus) producing edible tubers, native about the Mediterranean, now cultivated in many regions; the earth almond.

(n. pl.) The eyelashes.

(n. pl.) Small, generally microscopic, vibrating appendages lining certain organs, as the air passages of the higher animals, and in the lower animals often covering also the whole or a part of the exterior. They are also found on some vegetable organisms. In the Infusoria, and many larval forms, they are locomotive organs.

(n. pl.) Hairlike processes, commonly marginal and forming a fringe like the eyelash.

(n. pl.) Small, vibratory, swimming organs, somewhat resembling true cilia, as those of Ctenophora.

(n.) A rib of an animal or a human being.

(n.) A rib or vein of a leaf, especially the midrib.

(n.) The anterior rib in the wing of an insect.

(n.) One of the riblike longitudinal ridges on the exterior of many corals.

(pl. ) of Septum

(pl. ) of Frenum

(n.) The daughter of Njord, and goddess of love and beauty; the Scandinavian Venus; -- in Teutonic myths confounded with Frigga, but in Scandinavian, distinct.

(n.) A genus of evergreen trees, thickly branched, remarkable for the distichous arrangement of their branches, and having scalelike, closely imbricated, or compressed leaves.

(n.) Same as Thuja.

(pl. ) of Folium

(n.) A discharge of fetid matter from the nostril, particularly if associated with ulceration of the soft parts and disease of the bones of the nose.

(n.) See Pasha.

(n.) Any sac or saclike cavity; especially, one of the synovial sacs, or small spaces, often lined with synovial membrane, interposed between tendons and bony prominences.

(n. pl.) See Scutum.

(pl. ) of Scutum

(n.) An oceanic fish of large size (Elacate canada); the crabeater; -- called also bonito, cubbyyew, coalfish, and sergeant fish.

(n.) See Copra.

(n.) The cobra de capello.

(n.) The pincherlike claw of Crustacea and Arachnida.

() Alt. of Cocoa palm

(n.) A preparation made from the seeds of the chocolate tree, and used in making, a beverage; also the beverage made from cocoa or cocoa shells.

(n.) A red coloring matter. extracted from the Bignonia Chica, used by some tribes of South American Indians to stain the skin.

(n.) A fermented liquor or beer made in South American from a decoction of maize.

(n.) A popular Moorish, Spanish, and South American dance, said to be the original of the fandango, etc.

(n.) A country in Eastern Asia.

(n.) China ware, which is the modern popular term for porcelain. See Porcelain.

(pl. ) of Collum

(n.) Hydrophobia.

(n.) A fibrous and muscular band lying within the longitudinal axis of the tongue in many mammals, as the dog. M () M, the thirteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a vocal consonant, and from the manner of its formation, is called the labio-nasal consonant. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 178-180, 242.

(n.) A kind of millet. See Durra.

(n.) A vase or drinking cup having two handles or ears.

(n.) A composition, in prose or poetry, accommodated to action, and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to depict a series of grave or humorous actions of more than ordinary interest, tending toward some striking result. It is commonly designed to be spoken and represented by actors on the stage.

(n.) A series of real events invested with a dramatic unity and interest.

(n.) Dramatic composition and the literature pertaining to or illustrating it; dramatic literature.

(n.) A kind of larva, or nurse, which is prroduced within the sporocyst of certain trematodes by asexual generation. It in turn produces, in the same way, either another generation of rediae, or else cercariae within its own body. Called also proscolex, and nurse. See Illustration in Appendix.

(n.) A measure of land in India, varying from a third of an acre to an acre.

(n.) An enemy of the gods, esp. one of a race of demons and giants.

(pl. ) of Asylum

(pl. ) of Atrium

(n.) Baryta.

(n.) Alt. of Bassaw

(interj.) Enough; stop.

(n.) The palm (or great black) cockatoo, of Australia (Microglossus aterrimus).

(n.) The coaita.

(n.) The first letter in the Greek alphabet, answering to A, and hence used to denote the beginning.

(n.) A genus of palms, one species of which produces the areca nut, or betel nut, which is chewed in India with the leaf of the Piper Betle and lime.

(n.) A false or bastard wing. See under Bastard.

(n.) A small South American opossum (Didelphys quica), native of Guiana and Brazil. It feeds upon insects, small birds, and fruit.

(n.) The quality or principle of plants or other substances which constitutes their fragrance; agreeable odor; as, the aroma of coffee.

(n.) Fig.: The fine diffusive quality of intellectual power; flavor; as, the subtile aroma of genius.

(n.) A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division.

(n.) Any species of marine gastropods, of the genera Nassa, Tritia, and other allied genera of the family Nassidae; a dog whelk. See Illust. under Gastropoda.

(n.) Extra pay; esp. an extra allowance to an English officer serving in India.

(n.) Rate of exchange; also, the discount on uncurrent coins.

(n.) A genus of grasses, including the common oat (Avena sativa); the oat grasses.

(n.) The round hole in the furnace of a glass manufactory through which the fused glass is taken out.

(n.) Bohea tea, an inferior kind of black tea. See under Tea.

(n.) A coarse stuff, usually of cotton, originally made in India. Also, an imitation of this fabric made for export.

(n.) A raft or float, used principally on the Pacific coast of South America.

(n.) The small and nearly cubical stone building, toward which all Mohammedans must pray.

(n. pl.) See Caecum.

(pl. ) of Caecum

(n.) An eruption upon the skin, consisting of vesicles with inflamed base and filled with serous, purulent, or bloody fluid, which dries up, forming a blackish crust.

(n.) A depilatory made of orpiment and quicklime, and used by the Turks. See Rhusma.

(n.) A genus of plants, of the order Araceae.

(pl. ) of Sacrum

(n.) A measure of length in Italy, varying from six to seven feet. See Cane, 4.

(n.) A genus of tropical plants, with large leaves and often with showy flowers. The Indian shot (C. Indica) is found in gardens of the northern United States.

(n.) A kind of dry fruit, consisting of three or more cells, each which at length breaks open at the inner angle.

(n.) See Sola.

(n.) See Dermis.

(n.) A seal; a coining die; -- used adjectively to designate the silver currency of the Mogul emperors, or the Indian rupee of 192 grains.

(n.) A small variety of the Lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus).

(n. pl.) The signs, abbreviations, letters, or characters standing for words, shorthand, etc., in ancient manuscripts, or on coins, medals, etc.

(n.) The Greek letter /, /, or / (English S, or s). It originally had the form of the English C.

(adv.) On the sea; at sea; toward the sea.

(n.) An antelope (Saiga Tartarica) native of the plains of Siberia and Eastern Russia. The male has erect annulated horns, and tufts of long hair beneath the eyes and ears.

(n.) The forest trees of a region or country, considered collectively.

(n.) A description or history of the forest trees of a country.

(n.) A Linnaean genus of Quadrumana which included the types of numerous modern genera. By modern writers it is usually restricted to the genus which includes the orang-outang.

(n.) A machine formerly employed for reducing dislocations of the humerus.

(n.) A term applied to any one of the three canals of the cochlea.

(n.) Great heat, as of the body in fever.

(n.) The part inclosed within the walls of an ancient temple, as distinguished from the open porticoes.

(pl. ) of Ovulum

(n.) Aliment; food.

(n.) A light form of prepared cocoa (or cacao), or the drink made from it.

(n.) A scene in an opera.

(n.) An accompanied dramatic recitative, interspersed with passages of melody, or followed by a full aria.

(n.) See Edentata.

(n. fem.) The comic actress in an opera.

(a.) Comic, farcical.

(n.) A bleb; a vesicle, or an elevation of the cuticle, containing a transparent watery fluid.

(n.) The ovoid prominence below the opening of the ear in the skulls of many animals; as, the tympanic or auditory bulla.

(n.) A leaden seal for a document; esp. the round leaden seal attached to the papal bulls, which has on one side a representation of St. Peter and St. Paul, and on the other the name of the pope who uses it.

(n.) A genus of marine shells. See Bubble shell.

(n.) The crested screamer of Brazil (Palamedea, / Chauna, chavaria), so called in imitation of its notes; -- called also chauna, and faithful kamichi. It is often domesticated and is useful in guarding other poultry. See Kamichi.

(n.) One of the three Fates, Past, Present, and Future. Their names were Urd, Verdandi, and Skuld.

(n.) A tutelary deity; a genius.

(n.) A large water wheel, turned by the action of a stream against its floats, and carrying at its circumference buckets, by which water is raised and discharged into a trough; used in Arabia, China, and elsewhere for irrigating land; a Persian wheel.

(n.) A norm; a principle or rule; a model; a standard.

(n.) A mason's or a carpenter's square or rule.

(n.) A templet or gauge.

(n. pl.) Same as Acrita.

(n.) A drama, either tragic or comic, of which music forms an essential part; a drama wholly or mostly sung, consisting of recitative, arials, choruses, duets, trios, etc., with orchestral accompaniment, preludes, and interludes, together with appropriate costumes, scenery, and action; a lyric drama.

(n.) The score of a musical drama, either written or in print; a play set to music.

(n.) The house where operas are exhibited.

(n.) The edible plumlike fruit of the Australian tree, Parinarium Nonda.

(n.) The oyster catcher.

(interj.) Hollo.

(v. i.) See Hollo, v. i.

(n.) A country in Southern Asia; the two peninsulas of Hither and Farther India; in a restricted sense, Hither India, or Hindostan.

(pl. ) of Tomium

(n.) A drug useful in neuralgia, derived from a Fijian plant supposed to be of the aroid genus Epipremnum.

(n.) A variety of rum.

(n.) Same as Tayra.

(n.) A kind of large cape, or short, full cloak, forming part of the dress of ladies.

(n.) A similar garment worn formerly by gentlemen.

(n.) A genus of small insectivores including the common European mole.

(a.) Beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; additional; supernumerary; also, extraordinarily good; superior; as, extra work; extra pay.

(n.) Something in addition to what is due, expected, or customary; something in addition to the regular charge or compensation, or for which an additional charge is made; as, at European hotels lights are extras.

(adv.) Over; above; before; also, beyond; besides; -- much used as a prefix.

(n.) A kind of boat used in Canton. It is about 25 feet long and is often rowed by women. Called also tankia.

(n.) A precept; an aphorism; a brief rule.

(n.) A collection of such aphorisms.

(n.) A body of Hindoo literature containing aphorisms on grammar, meter, law, and philosophy, and forming a connecting link between the Vedic and later Sanscrit literature.

(n.) See Iguana.

(n.) The scarlet ibis. See Ibis.

(n.) A large-maned wild dog of South America (Canis jubatus) -- named from its cry.

(n.) A tropical tree, or its fruit, of the genus Psidium. Two varieties are well known, the P. pyriferum, or white guava, and P. pomiferum, or red guava. The fruit or berry is shaped like a pomegranate, but is much smaller. It is somewhat astringent, but makes a delicious jelly.

(n.) A kind of soft tumor, usually of syphilitic origin.

(n.) A bamboo frame or trellis hung at a door or window of a house, over which water is suffered to trickle, in order to moisten and cool the air as it enters.

(n.) A minute groove, or channel; a threadlike line, as of color; a narrow structural band or line; a striation; as, the striae, or groovings, produced on a rock by a glacier passing over it; the striae on the surface of a shell; a stria of nervous matter in the brain.

(n.) A fillet between the flutes of columns, pilasters, or the like.

(n.) An insect in the larval state; a caterpillar; a larva.

(n.) An inferior kind of veneration or worship, given to the angels and saints as the servants of God.

(n.) Same as Conine.

(n.) The leaves of several leguminous plants of the genus Cassia. (C. acutifolia, C. angustifolia, etc.). They constitute a valuable but nauseous cathartic medicine.

(n.) The plants themselves, native to the East, but now cultivated largely in the south of Europe and in the West Indies.

(n.) A Spanish title of courtesy given to a lady; Mrs.; Madam; also, a lady.

(n.) The Patriarch, or head of the Abyssinian Church.

(prep.) Without; as, senza stromenti, without instruments.

(n.) The common European cuttlefish.

(n.) A genus comprising the common cuttlefish and numerous similar species. See Illustr. under Cuttlefish.

(n.) A pigment prepared from the ink, or black secretion, of the sepia, or cuttlefish. Treated with caustic potash, it has a rich brown color; and this mixed with a red forms Roman sepia. Cf. India ink, under India.

(a.) Of a dark brown color, with a little red in its composition; also, made of, or done in, sepia.

(n.) Any one attached to a Mohammedan mosque, esp. a student of the higher branches of theology in a mosque school.

(n.) A lariat.

(n.) A large South American serpent (Boa aboma).

(n.) See Rota.

() The chief admiral of the Turkish fleet.

(n.) One of an important religious sect in India which regards Siva with peculiar veneration.

(n.) A genus of ruminants, including the common goat.

(n.) A genus of transparent, tubular, free-swimming oceanic tunicates found abundantly in all the warmer latitudes. See Illustration in Appendix.

(n.) Alt. of Sangu

(n.) Sarsaparilla.

(n.) One of the peculiar stinging, cells found in Coelenterata; a nematocyst; a lasso cell.

(n.) A genus of polished marine gastropod shells, chiefly tropical, and often beautifully colored.

(n.) The last letter of the Greek alphabet. See Alpha.

(n.) The last; the end; hence, death.

(n.) A variety of cabbage (Brassica oleracea), cultivated for its seeds, which yield an oil valued for illuminating and lubricating purposes; summer rape.

(pl. ) of Sputum

(interj.) Hurry; run.

(n. pl.) See Crus.

(pl. ) of Crus

(n.) Negligence or fault, as distinguishable from dolus (deceit, fraud), which implies intent, culpa being imputable to defect of intellect, dolus to defect of heart.

(n.) Same as Doorga.

(n.) A kind of millet, cultivated throughout Asia, and introduced into the south of Europe; a variety of Sorghum vulgare; -- called also Indian millet, and Guinea corn.

(n.) A drop.

(n.) One of a series of ornaments, in the form of a frustum of a cone, attached to the lower part of the triglyphs, and also to the lower faces of the mutules, in the Doric order; -- called also campana, and drop.

(n.) A South American carnivore (Galera barbara) allied to the grison. The tail is long and thick. The length, including the tail, is about three feet.

(n.) An ornamental cup or vase with a large, flat, shallow bowl, resting on a pedestal and often having handles.

(n.) A sunk fence; a fence, wall, or ditch, not visible till one is close upon it.

(n.) A week day, esp. a day which is neither a festival nor a fast.

(n.) a flat heap of moist, crushed silver ore, prepared for the patio process.

(n.) A tumor consisting of muscular tissue.

(n.) Any young insect from the time that it hatches from the egg until it becomes a pupa, or chrysalis. During this time it usually molts several times, and may change its form or color each time. The larvae of many insects are much like the adults in form and habits, but have no trace of wings, the rudimentary wings appearing only in the pupa stage. In other groups of insects the larvae are totally unlike the parents in structure and habits, and are called caterpillars, grubs, maggots, etc.

(n.) The early, immature form of any animal when more or less of a metamorphosis takes place, before the assumption of the mature shape.

(n.) A number of hermitages or cells in the same neighborhood occupied by anchorites who were under the same superior.

(n.) An early Latin version of the Scriptures (the Old Testament was translated from the Septuagint, and was also called the Italic version).

(n.) One of a numerous sect in British India, holding the tenets of Jainism.

(n.) A genus of birds which includes the common hoopoe.

(n.) A genus of lichens, most of the species of which have long, gray, pendulous, and finely branched fronds. Usnea barbata is the common bearded lichen which grows on branches of trees in northern forests.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a subdivision of the Trenton Period of the Lower Silurian, characterized in the State of New York by beds of shale.

(n.) The pendent fleshy lobe in the middle of the posterior border of the soft palate.

(pl. ) of Vacuum

(n.) The dried hemp plant, used in India for smoking. It is extremely narcotic and intoxicating.

(n.) Same as Ganza.

(n.) A kind of wild goose, by a flock of which a virtuoso was fabled to be carried to the lunar world.

(n.) An injection, or clyster, thrown into the rectum as a medicine, or to impart nourishment.

(n.) The daughter of Jupiter and Latona; a virgin goddess who presided over hunting, chastity, and marriage; -- identified with the Greek goddess Artemis.

(n.) That which is held as an opinion; a tenet; a doctrine.

(n.) A formally stated and authoritatively settled doctrine; a definite, established, and authoritative tenet.

(n.) A doctrinal notion asserted without regard to evidence or truth; an arbitrary dictum.

(n. pl.) See Dictum.

(pl. ) of Dictum

(n.) A lady; madam; mistress; -- the title given a lady in Italy.

(n.) A small column or pillar, used as a monument, milestone, etc.

(n.) A long garment, descending to the ankles, worn by Roman women.

(n.) A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; -- so called from its resemblance to a spike of a barley.

(n.) A star of the first magnitude situated in the constellation Virgo.

(n.) One of the minute apertures between the cells in many serous membranes.

(n.) The minute breathing pores of leaves or other organs opening into the intercellular spaces, and usually bordered by two contractile cells.

(n.) The line of dehiscence of the sporangium of a fern. It is usually marked by two transversely elongated cells. See Illust. of Sporangium.

(n.) A stigma. See Stigma, n., 6 (a) & (b).

(n.) One of the thirty parts into which the Roman people were divided by Romulus.

(n.) The place of assembly of one of these divisions.

(n.) The place where the meetings of the senate were held; the senate house.

(n.) The court of a sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his residence or his household.

(n.) Any court of justice.

(n.) The Roman See in its temporal aspects, including all the machinery of administration; -- called also curia Romana.

(n.) A saxicoline singing bird (Kittacincla macroura) of India, noted for the sweetness and power of its song. In confinement it imitates the notes of other birds and various animals with accuracy. Its head, neck, back, breast, and tail are glossy black, the rump white, the under parts chestnut.

(n.) A tract of land shaped like the letter delta (/), especially when the land is alluvial and inclosed between two or more mouths of a river; as, the delta of the Ganges, of the Nile, or of the Mississippi.

(n.) A machine for fanning a room, usually a movable fanlike frame covered with canvas, and suspended from the ceiling. It is kept in motion by pulling a cord.

(n.) A leaf bud, as distinguished from a flower bud.

(n.) A bud spore; one of the small spores or buds in the reproduction of certain Protozoa, which separate one at a time from the parent cell.

(n.) The animals of any given area or epoch; as, the fauna of America; fossil fauna; recent fauna.

(pl. ) of Genu

(n.) The upper lip or helmet-shaped part of a labiate flower.

(n.) A kind of bandage for the head.

(n.) Headache extending all over the head.

(n.) A genus of fossil echini, having a vaulted, helmet-shaped shell.

(n.) The anterior, outer process of the second joint of the maxillae in certain insects.

(n.) See Fascia.

(n.) A viola da gamba.

(n.) The third letter (/, / = Eng. G) of the Greek alphabet.

(n.) The chigoe.

(n.) An apothecium in certain lichens, having a spherical surface marked with spiral or concentric ridges and furrows.

(n.) A genus of fishes, including the fresh-water perch.

(n.) The deity who assigns to every man his lot.

(pl. ) of Etymon

(n.) A pit, groove, cavity, or depression, of greater or less depth; as, the temporal fossa on the side of the skull; the nasal fossae containing the nostrils in most birds.

(n.) Same as oedema.

(n.) A slight depression or pit; a fossa.

(n.) A genus of Hymenoptera including the common wasps and hornets.

(n.) One of the great divinities of the ancient Romans, identical with the Greek Hestia. She was a virgin, and the goddess of the hearth; hence, also, of the fire on it, and the family round it.

(n.) An asteroid, or minor planet, discovered by Olbers in 1807.

(n.) A wax friction match.

(n.) Alt. of Vicugna

(n.) In the Orkney and Shetland Islands, beef and mutton hung and dried, but not salted.

(n.) A mound or monument commemorative of Buddha.

(n.) See 1st Stupe.

(n.) An anglo-Saxon copper coin of the lowest value, being worth half a farthing.

(n.) A native double salt, consisting of a combination of neutral and acid sodium carbonate, Na2CO3.2HNaCO3.2H2O, occurring as a white crystalline fibrous deposit from certain soda brine springs and lakes; -- called also urao, and by the ancients nitrum.

(n.) The lowest of the four great castes among the Hindoos. See Caste.

(n.) pl. of Medium.

(n.) One of the sonant mutes /, /, / (b, d, g), in Greek, or of their equivalents in other languages, so named as intermediate between the tenues, /, /, / (p, t, k), and the aspiratae (aspirates) /, /, / (ph or f, th, ch). Also called middle mute, or medial, and sometimes soft mute.

(pl. ) of Medium

(n.) The siamang; -- called also ungka ape.

(n.) A genus of dipterous insects, including the common house fly, and numerous allied species.

(n.) A small constellation situated between the Southern Cross and the Pole.

(n.) A genus of composite plants, of which one species (Madia sativa) is cultivated for the oil yielded from its seeds by pressure. This oil is sometimes used instead of olive oil for the table.

(n.) Any crude mixture of mineral or organic matters in the state of a thin paste.

(n.) A thick residuum obtained from certain substances after the fluid parts are expressed from them; the grounds which remain after treating a substance with any menstruum, as water or alcohol.

(n.) A salve or confection of thick consistency.

(n.) The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc.

(n.) The glassy base of an eruptive rock.

(n.) The amorphous or homogenous matrix or ground mass, as distinguished from well-defined crystals; as, the magma of porphyry.

(n.) The California poison oak (Rhus diversiloba). See under Poison, a.

(n.) An herb; a plant.

(n.) A thorny tree or shrub of the genus Lawsonia (L. alba). The fragrant white blossoms are used by the Buddhists in religious ceremonies. The powdered leaves furnish a red coloring matter used in the East to stain the hails and fingers, the manes of horses, etc.

(n.) The leaves of the henna plant, or a preparation or dyestuff made from them.

(n.) See Hermes, 2.

(n.) A form of headdress worn by the ancient Persians. According to Xenophon, the royal tiara was encircled with a diadem, and was high and erect, while those of the people were flexible, or had rims turned over.

(n.) The pope's triple crown. It was at first a round, high cap, but was afterward encompassed with a crown, subsequently with a second, and finally with a third. Fig.: The papal dignity.

(n.) The inner, or preaxial, and usually the larger, of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee.

(n.) The fourth joint of the leg of an insect. See Illust. under Coleoptera, and under Hexapoda.

(n.) A musical instrument of the flute kind, originally made of the leg bone of an animal.

(n.) See Hegira.

(n.) The long jump, with weights in the hands, -- the most important of the exercises of the Pentathlon.

(n.) See Taenia.

(n.) A genus of small beetles, of which one species (the grapevine Fidia, F. longipes) is very injurious to vines in America.

(pl. ) of Tergum

(n.) The terminal lamina, or thin ventral part, of the anterior wall of the third ventricle of the brain.

(n.) The earth; earth.

(n.) The external hard or firm covering of many invertebrate animals.

(n.) The outer integument of a seed; the episperm, or spermoderm.

(n.) A genus of marine univalve shells; the harp shells; -- so called from the form of the shells, and their ornamental ribs.

(n.) A sheath; a case; as, the theca, or cell, of an anther; the theca, or spore case, of a fungus; the theca of the spinal cord.

(n.) The chitinous cup which protects the hydranths of certain hydroids.

(n.) The more or less cuplike calicle of a coral.

(n.) The wall forming a calicle of a coral.

(n.) Alt. of Hippe

(n.) A name applied to various skin diseases, but especially to ringworm. See Ringworm, and Sycosis.

(n.) A genus of small Lepidoptera, including the clothes moths and carpet moths.

(n.) See Flicker, n., 2.

(n.) A genus of American liliaceous, sometimes arborescent, plants having long, pointed, and often rigid, leaves at the top of a more or less woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy white blossoms.

(n.) A genus of cycadaceous plants, having the appearance of low palms, but with exogenous wood. See Coontie, and Illust. of Strobile.

(n.) Either one of two species of South African wild horses remarkable for having the body white or yellowish white, and conspicuously marked with dark brown or brackish bands.

(n.) The fennec.

(n.) Curd produced from milk by adding acetic acid, after rennet has ceased to cause coagulation.

(n.) A low, thorny, suffrutescent, crucifeous plant (Zilla myagroides) found in the deserts of Egypt. Its leaves are boiled in water, and eaten, by the Arabs.

(n.) A dance of Polish origin, but now common everywhere. It is performed by two persons in common time.

(n.) A lively Bohemian or Polish dance tune in 2-4 measure, with the third quaver accented.

(n.) A genus of seals. It includes the common harbor seal and allied species. See Seal.

(pl. ) of Phylon

(pl. ) of Phylum

(n.) A tubercle on any external part of the body.

(n.) A genus of fresh-water Pulmonifera, having reversed spiral shells. See Pond snail, under Pond.

(n.) A genus of coniferous trees of the northen hemisphere, including the Norway spruce and the American black and white spruces. These trees have pendent cones, which do not readily fall to pieces, in this and other respects differing from the firs.

(n.) The powder of aloes with canella, formerly officinal, employed as a cathartic.

(n.) A representation of the dead Christ, attended by the Virgin Mary or by holy women and angels.

(n.) The part of the liver or other organ where its vessels and nerves enter; the hilus.

(n.) The foramen of Monro.

(n.) A leaflet of a pinnate leaf. See Illust. of Bipinnate leaf, under Bipinnate.

(n.) One of the primary divisions of a decompound leaf.

(n.) One of the divisions of a pinnate part or organ.

(n.) Any species of Pinna, a genus of large bivalve mollusks found in all warm seas. The byssus consists of a large number of long, silky fibers, which have been used in manufacturing woven fabrics, as a curiosity.

(n.) The auricle of the ear. See Ear.

(n.) A collection of traditions received by the orthodox Mohammedans as of equal authority with the Koran.

(n.) One of several species of large, crested ground pigeons of the genus Goura, inhabiting New Guinea and adjacent islands. The Queen Victoria pigeon (Goura Victoria) and the crowned pigeon (G. coronata) are among the beat known species.

(n.) Same as Silva.

(n.) A long dress, trailing on the floor, worn by tragic actors in Greek and Roman theaters.

(pl. ) of Adytum

(interj.) A word used as a shout of joy, exultation, approbation, or encouragement.

(n.) A shout of huzza; a cheer; a hurrah.

(v. i.) To shout huzza; to cheer.

(v. t.) To receive or attend with huzzas.

(n.) A serpent or monster in the lake or marsh of Lerna, in the Peloponnesus, represented as having many heads, one of which, when cut off, was immediately succeeded by two others, unless the wound was cauterized. It was slain by Hercules. Hence, a terrible monster.

(n.) Hence: A multifarious evil, or an evil having many sources; not to be overcome by a single effort.

(n.) Any small fresh-water hydroid of the genus Hydra, usually found attached to sticks, stones, etc., by a basal sucker.

(n.) A southern constellation of great length lying southerly from Cancer, Leo, and Virgo.

(n.) Any carnivorous mammal of the family Hyaenidae, of which three living species are known. They are large and strong, but cowardly. They feed chiefly on carrion, and are nocturnal in their habits.

(n.) A twelfth part, as of the Roman as; an ounce.

(n.) A numerical coefficient in any particular case of the binomial theorem.

(n.) A lofty West African tree (Khaya Senegalensis), related to the mahogany, which it resembles in the quality of the wood. The bark is used as a febrifuge.

(n.) A seaport town of Arabia, on the Red Sea.

(n.) A variety of coffee brought from Mocha.

(n.) An Abyssinian weight, equivalent to a Troy grain.

(n.) A cutaneous disease; especially, the itch.

(n.) A turning; a time; -- chiefly used in phrases signifying that the part is to be repeated one, two, or more times; as, una volta, once. Seconda volta, second time, points to certain modifications in the close of a repeated strain.

(adv.) Below; beneath; under; after; -- often used as a prefix.

(pl. ) of Lyceum

(n.) See Coleoptera and Sea devil.

(n.) The food supplied to the Israelites in their journey through the wilderness of Arabia; hence, divinely supplied food.

(n.) A name given to lichens of the genus Lecanora, sometimes blown into heaps in the deserts of Arabia and Africa, and gathered and used as food.

(n.) A sweetish exudation in the form of pale yellow friable flakes, coming from several trees and shrubs and used in medicine as a gentle laxative, as the secretion of Fraxinus Ornus, and F. rotundifolia, the manna ashes of Southern Europe.

(n.) Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; as, the tulip mania.

(n.) Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity. Cf. Delirium.

(n.) Mother; -- word of tenderness and familiarity.

(n.) A glandular organ for secreting milk, characteristic of all mammals, but usually rudimentary in the male; a mammary gland; a breast; under; bag.

(n.) A small shield, especially one of an approximately elliptic form, or crescent-shaped.

(n.) A flat apothecium having no rim.

(n.) The interior chaff or husk of grasses.

(n.) One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, etc.

(n.) A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap.

(a.) Going beyond others, or beyond due limit; extreme; fanatical; uncompromising; as, an ultra reformer; ultra measures.

(n.) One who advocates extreme measures; an ultraist; an extremist; a radical.

(n.) A letter of the Greek alphabet corresponding to th in English; -- sometimes called the unlucky letter, from being used by the judges on their ballots in passing condemnation on a prisoner, it being the first letter of the Greek qa`natos, death.

(n.) The goddess of flowers and spring.

(n.) The complete system of vegetable species growing without cultivation in a given locality, region, or period; a list or description of, or treatise on, such plants.

(n.) A fleet; especially, a /eet of Spanish ships which formerly sailed every year from Cadiz to Vera Cruz, in Mexico, to transport to Spain the production of Spanish America.

(pl. ) of Opus

(n.) A light fabric of wool, worn on the head by women; a cloud.

(n.) The back or upper part of the neck; the nape.

(a.) A species of shrike.

(n.) A council; a convention; a tribunal; an assembly; esp., the grand council of state in Spain.

(n.) A country seat; a country or suburban residence of some pretensions to elegance.

(n.) A preliminary or auxiliary proposition demonstrated or accepted for immediate use in the demonstration of some other proposition, as in mathematics or logic.

(n.) A genus of polypetalous herbaceous plants, including all kinds of violets.

(n.) An instrument in form and use resembling the violin, but larger, and a fifth lower in compass.

(n.) Leprosy.

(n.) Alt. of Lingam

(n.) One of the oil tubes in the fruit of umbelliferous plants.

(n.) A band, or stripe, of color.

(n.) See Vifda.

(n.) A Russian drink distilled from rye.

(n.) A luxuriant woody plant, climbing high trees and having ropelike stems. The grapevine often has the habit of a liane. Lianes are abundant in the forests of the Amazon region.

(n.) The Balance; the seventh sign in the zodiac, which the sun enters at the autumnal equinox in September, marked thus / in almanacs, etc.

(n.) A southern constellation between Virgo and Scorpio.

(n.) A saclike envelope of certain fungi, which bursts open as the plant develops.

(n.) The external parts of the female genital organs; sometimes, the opening between the projecting parts of the external organs.

(n.) The orifice of the oviduct of an insect or other invertebrate.

(n.) A genus of grasses including the rice plant; rice.

(pl. ) of Ostium

(n.) See Ochrea.

(n.) One of the hereditary nobility among the Tatars, esp. one of the second class.

(n.) The conical shadow projected from a planet or satellite, on the side opposite to the sun, within which a spectator could see no portion of the sun's disk; -- used in contradistinction from penumbra. See Penumbra.

(n.) The central dark portion, or nucleus, of a sun spot.

(n.) The fainter part of a sun spot; -- now more commonly called penumbra.

(n.) Any one of several species of sciaenoid food fishes of the genus Umbrina, especially the Mediterranean species (U. cirrhosa), which is highly esteemed as a market fish; -- called also ombre, and umbrine.

(n.) A college or corporation in Turkey composed of the hierarchy, namely, the imams, or ministers of religion, the muftis, or doctors of law, and the cadis, or administrators of justice.

(n.) A monster capable of assuming a woman's form, who was said to devour human beings or suck their blood; a vampire; a sorceress; a witch.

(pl. ) of Labrum

(n. pl.) See Labium.

(pl. ) of Labium

(n.) A tailless marsupial (Phascolarctos cinereus), found in Australia. The female carries her young on the back of her neck. Called also Australian bear, native bear, and native sloth.

(n.) A beach; a strand; in the plains and deserts of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, a broad, level spot, on which subsequently becomes dry by evaporation.

(n.) A public square in a city or town.

(v.) A disease of the hair (Plica polonica), in which it becomes twisted and matted together. The disease is of Polish origin, and is hence called also Polish plait.

(v.) A diseased state in plants in which there is an excessive development of small entangled twigs, instead of ordinary branches.

(v.) The bend of the wing of a bird.

(n.) Idiocy; imbecility; fatuity; foolishness.

(pl. ) of Xenium

(n.) A West Indian name for two large timber trees (Podocarpus coriaceus, and P. Purdicanus) of the Yew family. The wood, which is much used, is pale brownish with darker streaks.

(n.) The common title of honor in Persia, prefixed to the surname of an individual. When appended to the surname, it signifies Prince.

(n.) Same as Mollah.

(n.) The service or sacrifice of the Mass.

(n.) See Bonnet monkey, under Bonnet.

(n.) A feather.

(n.) An honorary title given to officers of high rank in Turkey, as to governers of provinces, military commanders, etc. The earlier form was bashaw.

(pl. ) of Podium

(n.) A Brazilian name for the lofty myrtaceous tree (Bertholetia excelsa) which produces the large seeds known as Brazil nuts.

(n.) The hartbeest.

(n.) One of the Brahmanic eons, a period of 4,320,000,000 years. At the end of each Kalpa the world is annihilated.

(n.) One's acts considered as fixing one's lot in the future existence. (Theos.) The doctrine of fate as the inflexible result of cause and effect; the theory of inevitable consequence.

(n.) A small Asiatic mammal (Ailurus fulgens) having fine soft fur. It is related to the bears, and inhabits the mountains of Northern India.

(n.) A stripe of color.

(n.) Any one of a large group of bright-colored clamatorial birds belonging to Pitta, and allied genera of the family Pittidae. Most of the species are varied with three or more colors, such as blue, green, crimson, yellow, purple, and black. They are called also ground thrushes, and Old World ant thrushes; but they are not related to the true thrushes.

(n.) An oblong rectangular piece of cloth, worn by Roman ladies, and fastened with brooches.

(n.) A perfect, or normal, feather.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of small clamatorial birds belonging to Pipra and allied genera, of the family Pipridae. The male is usually glossy black, varied with scarlet, yellow, or sky blue. They chiefly inhabit South America.