(n.) A cord.

(n.) St. Vitus's dance; a disease attended with convulsive twitchings and other involuntary movements of the muscles or limbs.

(n.) Any inflammatory affection of the throat or faces, as the quinsy, malignant sore throat, croup, etc., especially such as tends to produce suffocation, choking, or shortness of breath.

(n.) A fabric made from the wool of the Angora goat.

(n.) A city of Asia Minor (or Anatolia) which has given its name to a goat, a cat, etc.

(n.) A South American aquatic bird; the horned screamer or kamichi (Palamedea cornuta). See Kamichi.

(n.) A genus of bivalve shells, allied to the oyster, so called from their unequal valves, of which the lower is perforated for attachment.

(n. pl.) One of the two orders of Nemerteans. See Nemertina.

(n.) See Annotto.

(n.) See Anura.

(n.) A Spanish weight used in Mexico and South America = 25.36 lbs. avoir.; also, an old Portuguese weight, used in Brazil = 32.38 lbs. avoir.

(n.) A Spanish liquid measure for wine = 3.54 imp. gallons, and for oil = 2.78 imp. gallons.

(n.) The spiral tubular proboscis of lepidopterous insects. See Lepidoptera.

(pl. ) of Agendum

(n.) Want of appetite; loathing of food.

(n.) The wild Guinea pig of Brazil (Cavia aperea).

(n.) One of the whitish specks called aphthae.

(n.) The disease, also called thrush.

(n.) A small insectivorous mammal (Solenodon paradoxus), allied to the moles, found only in Hayti.

(n.) Partial privation or suspension of breath; suffocation.

(n.) A figure in which the speaker professes to be at a loss what course to pursue, where to begin to end, what to say, etc.

(n.) A white metallic alloy; which is made into spoons, forks, teapots, etc. British plate or German silver. See German silver, under German.

(n.) See PyAemia.

(n.) In India and Persia, thin loose trowsers or drawers; in Europe and America, drawers worn at night, or a kind of nightdress with legs.

(n.) A nutlet resembling a seed, or the kernel of a drupe.

(n.) The Indian four-horned antelope; the chikara.

(n.) The word which unites the subject and predicate.

(n.) The stop which connects the manuals, or the manuals with the pedals; -- called also coupler.

(n.) The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.

(n.) Any species of the genus Cicada. They are large hemipterous insects, with nearly transparent wings. The male makes a shrill sound by peculiar organs in the under side of the abdomen, consisting of a pair of stretched membranes, acted upon by powerful muscles. A noted American species (C. septendecim) is called the seventeen year locust. Another common species is the dogday cicada.

(n.) A cicada. See Cicada.

(n.) a genus of poisonous umbelliferous plants, of which the water hemlock or cowbane is best known.

(pl. ) of Cornu

(n.) A fillet or band placed around the shaft of a column as if to strengthen it.

(n. pl.) The group of Thysanura which includes Lepisma and allied forms; the bristletails. See Bristletail, and Lepisma.

(n.) A crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a reward for distinguished services.

(n.) The projecting part of a Classic cornice, the under side of which is cut with a recess or channel so as to form a drip. See Illust. of Column.

(n.) The upper surface of some part, as of a tooth or the skull; a crown.

(n.) The shelly skeleton of a sea urchin.

(n.) A peculiar luminous appearance, or aureola, which surrounds the sun, and which is seen only when the sun is totally eclipsed by the moon.

(n.) An inner appendage to a petal or a corolla, often forming a special cup, as in the daffodil and jonquil.

(n.) Any crownlike appendage at the top of an organ.

(n.) A circle, usually colored, seen in peculiar states of the atmosphere around and close to a luminous body, as the sun or moon.

(n.) A peculiar phase of the aurora borealis, formed by the concentration or convergence of luminous beams around the point in the heavens indicated by the direction of the dipping needle.

(n.) A crown or circlet suspended from the roof or vaulting of churches, to hold tapers lighted on solemn occasions. It is sometimes formed of double or triple circlets, arranged pyramidically. Called also corona lucis.

(n.) A character [/] called the pause or hold.

(n.) Nasal catarrh.

(n. pl.) That which is egested or thrown off from the body by the various excretory channels; excrements; -- opposed to ingesta.

(n.) A room in a public building, furnished with seats.

(n.) The projection of any part of a building in a rounded form.

(n.) Any out-of-door seat in stone, large enough for several persons; esp., one of curved form.

(n.) An Arabian tree (Trichilia emetica). The fruit, which is emetic, is sometimes employed in the composition of an ointment for the cure of the itch.

(n.) The wife of Odin and mother of the gods; the supreme goddess; the Juno of the Valhalla. Cf. Freya.

(n.) Oxide of thulium.

(n.) The flight of Mohammed from Mecca, September 13, A. D. 622 (subsequently established as the first year of the Moslem era); hence, any flight or exodus regarded as like that of Mohammed.

(n.) See Hegira.

(n.) See St. Elmo's fire, under Saint.

(n.) The surface of a leaf or of a flattened thallus.

(n.) A term by which Europeans designate religious temples and tower-like buildings of the Hindoos and Buddhists of India, Farther India, China, and Japan, -- usually but not always, devoted to idol worship.

(n.) An idol.

(n.) A gold or silver coin, of various kinds and values, formerly current in India. The Madras gold pagoda was worth about three and a half rupees.

(n.) Any one of several species of East Indian viverrine mammals of the genus Paguma. They resemble a weasel in form.

(n.) A dangerous rock on the Italian coast opposite the whirpool Charybdis on the coast of Sicily, -- both personified in classical literature as ravenous monsters. The passage between them was formerly considered perilous; hence, the saying "Between Scylla and Charybdis," signifying a great peril on either hand.

(n.) See Scyphus, 2 (b).

(n.) Material on which instruments, books, etc., are written; parchment or paper.

(n.) A charter or deed; a writing by which a grant is made. See Magna Charta.

(n.) The native name of certain South American monkeys of the genus Ateles, esp. A. paniscus. The black-faced coaita is Ateles ater. See Illustration in Appendix.

(n.) A genus of climbing plants, native of Mexico and South America. C. scandens is a conservatory climber with large bell-shaped flowers.

(n.) See Chica.

(n.) A cavity.

(n.) Bile; choler.

() A Latin adverb and preposition, signifying against, contrary, in opposition, etc., entering as a prefix into the composition of many English words. Cf. Counter, adv. & pref.

(n.) A tumor made up of a gelatinous tissue resembling that found in the umbilical cord.

(pl. ) of Ovarium

(n.) Infectious particles or germs floating in the air; air made noxious by the presence of such particles or germs; noxious effluvia; malaria.

(n.) The matter secreted by any of the sebaceous glands.

(n.) The soapy substance covering the skin of newborn infants.

(n.) The cheesy, sebaceous matter which collects between the glans penis and the foreskin.

(v. i.) To sing the notes of the gamut, ascending or descending; as, do or ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, do, or the same in reverse order.

(n.) The gamut, or musical scale. See Tonic sol-fa, under Tonic, n.

(n.) A number of lines or verses forming a division of a song or poem, and agreeing in meter, rhyme, number of lines, etc., with other divisions; a part of a poem, ordinarily containing every variation of measure in that poem; a combination or arrangement of lines usually recurring; whether like or unlike, in measure.

(n.) An apartment or division in a building; a room or chamber.

(n.) An extended composition for one or two instruments, consisting usually of three or four movements; as, Beethoven's sonatas for the piano, for the violin and piano, etc.

(n.) A preparation of antimony with which Mohammedan men anoint their eyelids.

(n.) A statue.

(n.) See Softa.

(n.) A Bohemian dance of two kinds, one in triple time, like a waltz, the other in two-four time, like a polka. The former is most in use.

(n.) Immortality; also, the nectar conferring immortality.

(a.) Ambrosial; immortal.

(n.) The chitinous ribbon bearing the teeth of mollusks; -- called also lingual ribbon, and tongue. See Odontophore.

(n.) A fibrous material used for tying plants, said to come from the leaves of a palm tree of the genus Raphia.

(n.) A disease, characterized by difficulty of breathing (due to a spasmodic contraction of the bronchi), recurring at intervals, accompanied with a wheezing sound, a sense of constriction in the chest, a cough, and expectoration.

(n.) Alt. of Ataxy

(n. pl.) Animals having two hands; -- a term applied by Cuvier to man as a special order of Mammalia.

(n.) A extinct genus of Branchiopoda, very common in Silurian limestones.

(n.) An oxide of barium (or barytum); a heavy earth with a specific gravity above 4.

(n.) The Charioteer, or Wagoner, a constellation in the northern hemisphere, situated between Perseus and Gemini. It contains the bright star Capella.

(n.) The rising light of the morning; the dawn of day; the redness of the sky just before the sun rises.

(n.) The rise, dawn, or beginning.

(n.) The Roman personification of the dawn of day; the goddess of the morning. The poets represented her a rising out of the ocean, in a chariot, with rosy fingers dropping gentle dew.

(n.) A species of crowfoot.

(n.) The aurora borealis or aurora australis (northern or southern lights).

(n.) An aboriginal American name for the sweet potato (Ipomaea batatas).

(n.) An ingredient of the Mosaic incense, probably the operculum of some kind of strombus.

(n.) The precious stone called onyx.

(pl. ) of Ooecium

(n.) A genus of large marine gastropods. having a pear-shaped shell. It includes the fig-shells. See Illust. in Appendix.

(n.) A morbid condition in which pus is discharged in the urine.

(n.) The plinth, or lowest member, of any pedestal, podium, water table, or the like.

(n.) A fillet, or listel.

(n. pl.) Insects without wings, constituting the seventh Linnaen order of insects, an artificial group, which included Crustacea, spiders, centipeds, and even worms. These animals are now placed in several distinct classes and orders.

(n.) A South African wild ass (Equus, / Hippotigris, quagga). The upper parts are reddish brown, becoming paler behind and behind and beneath, with dark stripes on the face, neck, and fore part of the body.

(n.) A genus of eagles.

(n.) A northern constellation southerly from Lyra and Cygnus and preceding the Dolphin; the Eagle.

(pl. ) of Quantum

(pl. ) of Arcanum

(n.) An animal of Peru (Lama paco), having long, fine, wooly hair, supposed by some to be a domesticated variety of the llama.

(n.) Wool of the alpaca.

(n.) A thin kind of cloth made of the wooly hair of the alpaca, often mixed with silk or with cotton.

(n.) A palm tree (Saguerus saccharifer) which furnishes sago, wine, and fibers for ropes; the gomuti palm.

(n.) An interstice or small space, as between the cracks of the surface in certain crustaceous lichens; or as between the fibers composing organs or vessels that interlace; or as between the nervures of an insect's wing.

(n.) The colored ring around the nipple, or around a vesicle or pustule.

(n.) A West Indian palm; also the fruit of this palm, the seeds of which are used as a remedy for diseases of the chest.

(n.) The adjutant bird.

(n.) A genus of plants of the Mallow family. It includes the officinal marsh mallow, and the garden hollyhocks.

(n.) An ornamental shrub (Hibiscus Syriacus) of the Mallow family.

(n. fem.) A female pupil; especially, a graduate of a school or college.

(pl. ) of Amentum

(n.) An awn.

(n.) Quinine.

(n.) The seeds of a kind of goosewort (Chenopodium Quinoa), used in Chili and Peru for making porridge or cakes; also, food thus made.

(v. t.) A fleet of armed ships; a squadron. Specifically, the Spanish fleet which was sent to assail England, a. d. 1558.

(n.) A rhizopod. common in fresh water, capable of undergoing many changes of form at will. See Rhizopoda.

(n.) A genus of plants; also, the most important species (Arnica montana), native of the mountains of Europe, used in medicine as a narcotic and stimulant.

(interj.) Indeed; forsooth.

(n.) The brown coati. See Coati.

(n.) The Zoroastrian scriptures. See Zend-Avesta.

(n.) The armpit, or the cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder.

(n.) An axil.

(n.) A fish of the Mediterranean (Sphyraena spet). See Barracuda.

(n.) A genus of showy flowering shrubs, mostly natives of China or of North America; false honeysuckle. The genus is scarcely distinct from Rhododendron.

(n.) A cetacean allied to the dolphins.

(n.) A kind of occult theosophy or traditional interpretation of the Scriptures among Jewish rabbis and certain mediaeval Christians, which treats of the nature of god and the mystery of human existence. It assumes that every letter, word, number, and accent of Scripture contains a hidden sense; and it teaches the methods of interpretation for ascertaining these occult meanings. The cabalists pretend even to foretell events by this means.

(n.) Secret science in general; mystic art; mystery.

(n.) An oxide of zinc which collects on the sides of furnaces where zinc is sublimed. Formerly applied to the mineral calamine.

(n. pl.) An extinct tribe of fossil corals, including numerous species, many of them of large size. They are characteristic of the Paleozoic formations. The radiating septs, when present, are usually in multiples of four. See Cyathophylloid.

(n.) Alt. of Cafileh

(n.) The delicate membrane by which the back part of the globe of the eye is lined, and in which the fibers of the optic nerve terminate. See Eye.

(n.) A country of Europe and Asia.

(n.) A genus of large edentulous sirenians, allied to the dugong and manatee, including but one species (R. Stelleri); -- called also Steller's sea cow. S () the nineteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a consonant, and is often called a sibilant, in allusion to its hissing sound. It has two principal sounds; one a mere hissing, as in sack, this; the other a vocal hissing (the same as that of z), as in is, wise. Besides these it sometimes has the sounds of sh and zh, as in sure, measure. It generally has its hissing sound at the beginning of words, but in the middle and at the end of words its sound is determined by usage. In a few words it is silent, as in isle, debris. With the letter h it forms the digraph sh. See Guide to pronunciation, // 255-261.

(n.) A chamber, or instrument having a chamber. Specifically: The camera obscura when used in photography. See Camera, and Camera obscura.

(n.) A British province in North America, giving its name to various plants and animals.

(n.) A heap of carpels belonging to one flower.

(n.) A kind of collar or cape worn by ladies.

(n.) A perennial herbaceous plant of almost treelike size (Musa sapientum); also, its edible fruit. See Musa.

(n.) The One First Cause; also, one of the triad of Hindoo gods. The triad consists of Brahma, the Creator, Vishnu, the Preserver, and Siva, the Destroyer.

(n.) A valuable variety of large, domestic fowl, peculiar in having the comb divided lengthwise into three parts, and the legs well feathered. There are two breeds, the dark or penciled, and the light; -- called also Brahmapootra.

(n.) A cyst formed under the tongue by obstruction of the duct of the submaxillary gland.

(n.) Clay that is colored red or brown by the oxides of iron or manganese, and used as a pigment. It is used either in the raw state or burnt.

(n.) A ridge of mountain and craggy rocks, with a serrated or irregular outline; as, the Sierra Nevada.

(n.) A short sleep taken about the middle of the day, or after dinner; a midday nap.

(n. pl.) A division of Lepidoptera, including the butterflies; -- so called because they fly only in the daytime.

(n.) Silicon dioxide, SiO/. It constitutes ordinary quartz (also opal and tridymite), and is artifically prepared as a very fine, white, tasteless, inodorous powder.

(n. pl.) An order of holothurians, including those that have ambulacral suckers, or feet, and an internal gill.

(n.) An outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind; as, five dots in a line are a schema of the number five; a preceding and succeeding event are a schema of cause and effect.

(pl. ) of Centrum

(n.) The unguent (a composition of oil and wax) with which wrestlers were anointed among the ancient Romans.

(n.) That part of the baths and gymnasia in which bathers and wrestlers anointed themselves.

(n.) The cere of birds.

(n.) The recrement of metals in fusion, or the slag rejected after the reduction of metallic ores; dross.

(n.) Cellular slaggy lava; volcanic cinders.

(n.) A concave molding used especially in classical architecture.

(n.) Scotland

(n.) A white man; -- a term used by negroes of the African coast, West Indies, etc.

(a.) White; white man's; strong; good; as, buckra yam, a white yam.

(n.) See Caesura.

(n.) The title of an incarnation of self-abnegation, virtue, and wisdom, or a deified religious teacher of the Buddhists, esp. Gautama Siddartha or Sakya Sinha (or Muni), the founder of Buddhism.

(n.) A large species of African baboon (Cynocephalus porcarius); -- called also ursine baboon. [See Illust. of Baboon.]

(n.) A mixture of starch and glycerin, used as a substitute for ointments.

(n.) A variety of quartz, of a color between grass green and leek green, which is found associated with common chalcedony. It was much esteemed by the ancients for making engraved ornaments.

(n.) The viscous material of an animal or vegetable cell, out of which the various tissues are formed by a process of differentiation; protoplasm.

(n.) Unorganized material; elementary matter.

(n.) Any one of many species of long-legged dipterous insects belonging to Tipula and allied genera. They have long and slender bodies. See Crane fly, under Crane.

(n. & v. i.) Same as Hollo.

(n.) An oxide of holmium.

(n.) A genus of intestinal worms which includes the common tapeworms of man. See Tapeworm.

(n.) A band; a structural line; -- applied to several bands and lines of nervous matter in the brain.

(n.) The fillet, or band, at the bottom of a Doric frieze, separating it from the architrave.

(n.) A peculiar combination of pulleys.

(n.) Alt. of Tarsiatura

(n.) A district on the west coast of Africa (formerly noted for its export of gold and slaves) after which the Guinea fowl, Guinea grass, Guinea peach, etc., are named.

(n.) A gold coin of England current for twenty-one shillings sterling, or about five dollars, but not coined since the issue of sovereigns in 1817.

(n.) A stage in the development of discophorous medusae, when they first begin to swim about after being detached from the strobila. See Strobila.

(n.) pl. of Stratum.

(pl. ) of Stratum

(pl. ) of Epizoon

(n.) See Epoch.

(n. pl.) See Erratum.

(pl. ) of Erratum

(n.) The chief lady in waiting on the queen of Spain.

(n.) An elderly lady holding a station between a governess and companion, and appointed to have charge over the younger ladies in a Spanish or a Portuguese family.

(n.) Any old woman who is employed to guard a younger one; a governess.

(n.) Alt. of Cotyle

(n.) The plain semidome of an apse; sometimes used for the entire apse.

(n.) The external ear; esp. the largest and deepest concavity of the external ear, surrounding the entrance to the auditory canal.

(pl. ) of Semen

(n.) A fasciole of a spatangoid sea urchin.

(n.) The seed of one or more leguminous plants of the genus Dolichos; also, the plant itself. Many varieties are cultivated in the southern part of the United States.

(n.) Seneca root.

(n.) A roll or bag, filled with dust, borne by Byzantine emperors, as a memento of mortality. It is represented on medals.

(n.) A genus of leguminous trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates.

(n.) The inspissated juice of several species of acacia; -- called also gum acacia, and gum arabic.

(n.) A genus of living Brachiopoda; -- so called from its fancied resemblance to the cranium or skull.

(pl. ) of Cranium

(a.) Alt. of Canulated

(n.) A plundering and destructive incursion; a foray; a raid.

(n.) Delay; obstacle; hindrance.

(n.) Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Echeneis, Remora, and allied genera. Called also sucking fish.

(n.) An instrument formerly in use, intended to retain parts in their places.

(n. pl.) See Rostrum, 2.

(pl. ) of Rostrum

(n.) The patella, or kneepan.

(n.) A genus of plants, the type of which is mignonette.

(n.) A grayish green color, like that of the flowers of mignonette.

(a.) A salt marsh, or salt pond, inclosed from the sea.

(a.) Salt works.

(n.) The secretion from the salivary glands.

(pl. ) of Caput

(n.) A genus of plants including the sage. See Sage.

(n.) A dry, indehiscent, usually one-seeded, winged fruit, as that of the ash, maple, and elm; a key or key fruit.

(n.) The heart.

(n.) The anterior or cardiac orifice of the stomach, where the esophagus enters it.

(n.) A chank shell (Turbinella pyrum); also, a shell bracelet or necklace made in India from the chank shell.

(n.) A keel

(n.) That part of a papilionaceous flower, consisting of two petals, commonly united, which incloses the organs of fructification

(n.) A longitudinal ridge or projection like the keel of a boat.

(n.) The keel of the breastbone of birds.

(n.) The sapodilla.

(n.) A sewer; as, the Cloaca Maxima of Rome.

(n.) A privy.

(n.) The common chamber into which the intestinal, urinary, and generative canals discharge in birds, reptiles, amphibians, and many fishes.

(n.) Same as Shaster.

(n.) The point of junction of the coronal and sagittal sutures of the skull.

(n.) A genus of leguminous plants (herbs, shrubs, or trees) of many species, most of which have purgative qualities. The leaves of several species furnish the senna used in medicine.

(n.) The bark of several species of Cinnamomum grown in China, etc.; Chinese cinnamon. It is imported as cassia, but commonly sold as cinnamon, from which it differs more or less in strength and flavor, and the amount of outer bark attached.

(n. pl.) A division of Reptilia formerly established to include the Lacertilia, Crocodilia, Dinosauria, and other groups. By some writers the name is restricted to the Lacertilia.

(n.) A chain or series of things connected with each other.

(n.) Gout in the shoulder.

(pl. ) of Omentum

(n.) A scale cast off from the skin; a thin dry shred consisting of epithelium.

(n.) A genus of solanaceous plants, with large funnel-shaped flowers and a four-celled, capsular fruit.

(pl. ) of Crissum

(n.) A crust or shell.

(n.) A gem engraved, or a plate embossed in low relief, for inlaying a vase or other object.

(n.) A small, short hair or bristle; a small seta.

(n.) A roof having a rounded form, hemispherical or nearly so; also, a ceiling having the same form. When on a large scale it is usually called dome.

(n.) A small structure standing on the top of a dome; a lantern.

(n.) A furnace for melting iron or other metals in large quantity, -- used chiefly in foundries and steel works.

(n.) A revolving shot-proof turret for heavy ordnance.

(n.) The top of the spire of the cochlea of the ear.

(pl. ) of Stadium

(n.) An assembly room in dwelling of the Pueblo Indians.

(n.) A swelling from effusion of watery fluid in the cellular tissue beneath the skin or mucous membrance; dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue.

(n.) A widely dispersed genus of shrubs and trees, usually with aromatic foliage. It includes the bayberry or wax myrtle, the sweet gale, and the North American sweet fern, so called.

(n.) Any pulverulent matter obtained from plants by simply breaking down the texture, washing with water, and subsidence.

(n.) The nutritious part of wheat; starch or farina; -- called also amylaceous fecula.

(n.) The green matter of plants; chlorophyll.

(n.) A turning round.

(pl. ) of Femur

(n.) A small appendage situated above the base of the wings of Hymenoptera and attached to the mesonotum.

(n.) A large genus of tropical American trees and shrubs, nearly related to the true myrtles (Myrtus), from which they differ in having very few seeds in each berry.

(n.) A chain of special bacteria. (b) A genus of budding fungi. Same as Saccharomyces. Also used adjectively.

(n.) A toga of purple, or ornamented with purple horizontal stripes. -- worn by kings, consuls, and augurs.

(n.) A sort of fillet worn by dignitaries, priests, and others among the ancient Romans. It was generally white.

(n.) Nearsightedness; shortsightedness; a condition of the eye in which the rays from distant object are brought to a focus before they reach the retina, and hence form an indistinct image; while the rays from very near objects are normally converged so as to produce a distinct image. It is corrected by the use of a concave lens.

(pl. ) of Maximum

(n.) Alt. of Mazame

(n.) The god of the waters; the Indian Neptune. He is regarded as regent of the west, and lord of punishment, and is represented as riding on a sea monster, holding in his hand a snaky cord or noose with which to bind offenders, under water.

(N.) The pudu.

(n.) The highest kind of worship, or that paid to God; -- distinguished by the Roman Catholics from dulia, or the inferior worship paid to saints.

(n.) See Yttria.

(n.) Any of several wading birds belonging to the genus Jacana and several allied genera, all of which have spurs on the wings. They are able to run about over floating water weeds by means of their very long, spreading toes. Called also surgeon bird.

(n.) One of the nine Muses, daughter of Zeus by Mnemosyne, and patron of astronomy.

(n.) A genus of large, brilliantly colored moths native of the West Indies and South America. Their bright colored and tailed hind wings and their diurnal flight cause them to closely resemble butterflies.

(n.) A beautiful North American butterfly (Basilarchia, / Limenitis, astyanax). Its wings are nearly black with red and blue spots and blotches. Called also red-spotted purple.

(n.) A genus of plants including the common nettles. See Nettle, n.

(n.) An imaginary island, represented by Sir Thomas More, in a work called Utopia, as enjoying the greatest perfection in politics, laws, and the like. See Utopia, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

(n.) Hence, any place or state of ideal perfection.

(n.) The goddess of rural leisure, to whom the husbandmen sacrificed at the close of the harvest. She was especially honored by the Sabines.

(n.) A sheath; a theca; as, the vagina of the portal vein.

(n.) Specifically, the canal which leads from the uterus to the external orifice if the genital canal, or to the cloaca.

(n.) The terminal part of the oviduct in insects and various other invertebrates. See Illust., of Spermatheca.

(n.) The basal expansion of certain leaves, which inwraps the stem; a sheath.

(n.) The shaft of a terminus, from which the bust of figure seems to issue or arise.

(n.) Any small jumping rodent of the genus Dipus, esp. D. Aegyptius, which is common in Egypt and the adjacent countries. The jerboas have very long hind legs and a long tail.

(n.) The Hindoo god of wisdom or prudence.

(n. pl.) The lowest groups of animals, in which no nervous system has been observed.

(n.) See Ependyma.

(n.) A deity; a divine being; a good spirit; an idol.

(n.) Indian millet. See Durra.

(n.) Lady; a lady; -- a title formerly given to noble ladies who held a barony in their own right.

(n. pl.) A division of Coleoptera, having two joints to the tarsi.

(n. pl.) A division of the Hemiptera, including the aphids.

(n.) A dry measure in Spain and Spanish America, varying from 1/ to 2/ bushels; also, a measure of land.

(n.) One of the ocelli of an insect. See Ocellus.

(n.) One of the facets of a compound eye of any arthropod.

(pl. ) of Sternum

(n.) A dark, obscure, or inexplicable saying; a riddle; a statement, the hidden meaning of which is to be discovered or guessed.

(n.) An action, mode of action, or thing, which cannot be satisfactorily explained; a puzzle; as, his conduct is an enigma.

(n. pl.) One of the orders of Nemertina, characterized by the presence of a peculiar armature of spines or plates in the proboscis.

(v. t.) A mark made with a burning iron; a brand.

(v. t.) Any mark of infamy or disgrace; sign of moral blemish; stain or reproach caused by dishonorable conduct; reproachful characterization.

(v. t.) That part of a pistil which has no epidermis, and is fitted to receive the pollen. It is usually the terminal portion, and is commonly somewhat glutinous or viscid. See Illust. of Stamen and of Flower.

(v. t.) A small spot, mark, scar, or a minute hole; -- applied especially to a spot on the outer surface of a Graafian follicle, and to spots of intercellular substance in scaly epithelium, or to minute holes in such spots.

(n.) A spathe.

(v. t.) A red speck upon the skin, produced either by the extravasation of blood, as in the bloody sweat characteristic of certain varieties of religious ecstasy, or by capillary congestion, as in the case of drunkards.

(v. t.) One of the external openings of the tracheae of insects, myriapods, and other arthropods; a spiracle.

(v. t.) One of the apertures of the pulmonary sacs of arachnids. See Illust. of Scorpion.

(v. t.) One of the apertures of the gill of an ascidian, and of Amphioxus.

(v. t.) A point so connected by any law whatever with another point, called an index, that as the index moves in any manner in a plane the first point or stigma moves in a determinate way in the same plane.

(v. t.) Marks believed to have been supernaturally impressed upon the bodies of certain persons in imitation of the wounds on the crucified body of Christ. See def. 5, above.

(n.) The fertilized egg cell or parent cell, from the development of which the child or other organism is formed.

(n.) A large and highly venomous Asiatic viper (Daboia xanthica).

(n.) The chaffinch; -- so named from its call note.

(n.) A dome-shaped structure built over relics of Buddha or some Buddhist saint.

(n.) A genus of plants native to Mexico and Central America, of the order Compositae; also, any plant or flower of the genus. The numerous varieties of cultivated dahlias bear conspicuous flowers which differ in color.

(n.) A genus of spiders, including the common garden spider (E. diadema). They spin geometrical webs. See Garden spider.

(n.) A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.

(n.) Pollen.

(n.) A band, sash, or fillet; especially, in surgery, a bandage or roller.

(n.) A flat member of an order or building, like a flat band or broad fillet; especially, one of the three bands which make up the architrave, in the Ionic order. See Illust. of Column.

(n.) The layer of loose tissue, often containing fat, immediately beneath the skin; the stronger layer of connective tissue covering and investing all muscles; an aponeurosis.

(n.) A broad well-defined band of color.

(n.) A baboon (Gelada Ruppelli) of Abyssinia, remarkable for the length of the hair on the neck and shoulders of the adult male.

(n.) The second part of the Talmud, or the commentary on the Mishna (which forms the first part or text).

(n. pl.) See Genus.

(n.) The chief city of Switzerland.

(n.) A strongly alcoholic liquor, flavored with juniper berries; -- made in Holland; Holland gin; Hollands.

(pl. ) of Genus

(pl. ) of Frustum

(pl. ) of Elysium

(pl. ) of Elytrum

(n. pl.) See Fulcrum.

(pl. ) of Fulcrum

(n.) A genus of simple, stony corals; -- so called because they are usually flat and circular, with radiating plates, like the gills of a mushroom. Some of them are eighteen inches in diameter.

() n. sing. of Exuviae.

(n. pl.) A group of chelonians which comprises many species of fresh-water tortoises and terrapins.

(n.) A remedy or antidose for poison; theriaca.

(n.) Lead sulphide; the principal ore of lead. It is of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, and is cubic in crystallization and cleavage.

(n. pl.) The lowest division of rhizopods, including those which resemble the amoebas, but are destitute of a nucleus.

(pl. ) of Moneron

(n.) The connective tissue or supporting framework of an organ; as, the stroma of the kidney.

(n.) The spongy, colorless framework of a red blood corpuscle or other cell.

(n.) A layer or mass of cellular tissue, especially that part of the thallus of certain fungi which incloses the perithecia.

(n.) Scrofula.

(n.) A cushionlike swelling on any organ; especially, that at the base of the capsule in many mosses.

(n. pl.) A division of bivalve mollusks of which the common clam (Mya) is the type.

(n.) The third of the four great original castes among the Hindus, now either extinct or partially represented by the mercantile class of Banyas. See the Note under Caste, 1.

(n.) A pimple; a small, usually conical, elevation of the cuticle, produced by congestion, accumulated secretion, or hypertrophy of tissue; a papule.

(n.) One of the numerous small hollow processes of the integument between the plates of starfishes.

() The exclamation attributed to Archimedes, who is said to have cried out "Eureka! eureka!" (I have found it! I have found it!), upon suddenly discovering a method of finding out how much the gold of King Hiero's crown had been alloyed. Hence, an expression of triumph concerning a discovery.

(n.) An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.

(n.) A viverrine animal of Madagascar (Cryptoprocta ferox). It resembles a cat in size and form, and has retractile claws.

(n.) A fig; -- a word of contempt.

(pl. ) of Frenum

(n.) A bladder.

(n.) The hartbeest.

(n.) A sand snake (Charina plumbea) of Western North America, of the family Erycidae.

(n.) A tumor springing from the neuroglia or connective tissue of the brain, spinal cord, or other portions of the nervous system.

(n.) A genus of limicoline birds including many species of sandpipers. See Dunlin, Knot, and Sandpiper.

(n.) A doxology (beginning Gloria Patri, Glory be to the Father), sung or said at the end of the Psalms in the service of the Roman Catholic and other churches.

(n.) A portion of the Mass (Gloria in Excelsis Deo, Glory be to God on high), and also of the communion service in some churches. In the Episcopal Church the version in English is used.

(n.) The musical setting of a gloria.

(n.) The tongue, or lingua, of an insect. See Hymenoptera.

(n.) Any marine bivalve shell of the genus Mactra, and allied genera. Many species are known. Some of them are used as food, as Mactra stultorum, of Europe. See Surf clam, under Surf.

(n.) A spot, as on the skin, or on the surface of the sun or of some other luminous orb.

(n.) A rather large spot or blotch of color.

(n.) The Gorgon; or one of the Gorgons whose hair was changed into serpents, after which all who looked upon her were turned into stone.

(n.) A hoof, claw, or talon.

(n.) A section or part of a cylinder, cone, or other solid of revolution, cut off by a plane oblique to the base; -- so called from its resemblance to the hoof of a horse.

(n.) Same as Unguis, 3.

(n.) Any species of the genus Iguana, a genus of large American lizards of the family Iguanidae. They are arboreal in their habits, usually green in color, and feed chiefly upon fruits.

(n.) Any free swimming acaleph; a jellyfish.

(n.) A small evergreen tree or shrub (Arbutus Menziesii), of California, having a smooth bark, thick shining leaves, and edible red berries, which are often called madroa apples.

(n.) Alt. of Melado

(n.) A measure of half a sextary.

(n.) A measure equal to about ten fluid ounces.

(n.) A protrusion, consisting of an organ or part which has escaped from its natural cavity, and projects through some natural or accidental opening in the walls of the latter; as, hernia of the brain, of the lung, or of the bowels. Hernia of the abdominal viscera in most common. Called also rupture.

(n.) A ferule.

(n.) The imperial scepter in the Byzantine or Eastern Empire.

() See Halloo.

(n.) A brooch, clasp, or buckle.

(n.) The outer and usually the smaller of the two bones of the leg, or hind limb, below the knee.

(n.) A needle for sewing up wounds.

(n.) That one of the nine Muses who presided over comedy.

(n.) One of the three Graces.

(n.) One of the Nereids.

(n.) Any one of many species of small delicately colored butterflies belonging to Thecla and allied genera; -- called also hairstreak, and elfin.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar

(n.) An Havana cigar.

(n.) See Melaena.

(n.) The oxide, Y2O3, or earth, of yttrium.

(n.) An improvised stockade; especially, one made of thorn bushes, etc.

(n.) The part of a dwelling appropriated to women.

(n.) A figure by which an adjective or verb, which agrees with a nearer word, is, by way of supplement, referred also to another more remote; as, "hic illius arma, hic currus fuit;" where fuit, which agrees directly with currus, is referred also to arma.

(n.) Any plant of the composite genus Zinnia, Mexican herbs with opposite leaves and large gay-colored blossoms. Zinnia elegans is the commonest species in cultivation.

(n.) The goddess of fruits and fruit trees.

(n.) An open square in a European town, especially an Italian town; hence (Arch.), an arcaded and roofed gallery; a portico. In the United States the word is popularly applied to a veranda.

(n.) A kind of long trumpet, used among the Persians.

(n.) A Brazilian palm (Astrocaryum Tucuma) which furnishes an edible fruit.

(n.) A rolling, marshy, mossy plain of Northern Siberia.

(n.) A table; a tablet.

(n.) One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids.

(n.) Same as Hyena.

(n.) A water jar; esp., one with a large rounded body, a small neck, and three handles. Some of the most beautiful Greek vases are of this form.

(n.) The goddess of health, daughter of Esculapius.

(n.) The return of the judge before whom a cause was tried, after a verdict, of what was done in the cause, which is indorsed on the nisi prius record.

(n.) A certain crimsonlike color.

(n.) Any leaping plant louse of the genus Psylla, or family Psyllidae.

(n.) A Jewish critical work on the text of the Hebrew Scriptures, composed by several learned rabbis of the school of Tiberias, in the eighth and ninth centuries.

(pl. ) of Lustrum

(n.) Same as Lunule.

(n.) A European whitefish of the genus Coregonus.

(n.) An American genus of sapotaceous trees bearing sweet and edible fruits.

(n.) A prayer; an invocation; a religious formula; a charm.

(n.) A superior kind of rich silk formerly exported from Mantua in Italy.

(n.) A woman's cloak or mantle; also, a woman's gown.

(a.) Alt. of Manilla

(n.) A cuirass, originally of leather, afterward of plates of metal or horn sewed on linen or the like.

(n.) Lute for protecting vessels from the fire.

(n.) The protective case or shell of an infusorian or rotifer.

(n.) A kind of light vessel used on the coast of China, having the hull built on a European model, and the rigging like that of a Chinese junk.

(n.) A widely distributed genus of fragrant herbs, including the peppermint, spearmint, etc. The plants have small flowers, usually arranged in dense axillary clusters.

(n.) A variety of bitumen, viscid and tenacious, like pitch, unctuous to the touch, and exhaling a bituminous odor.

(n.) Mortar.

(n.) The central process, or front edge, of the labium of insects. It sometimes serves as a tongue or proboscis, as in bees.

(n.) A tongue-shaped lobe of the parapodia of annelids. See Parapodium.

(pl. ) of Loma

(n.) See Ligule.

(n.) A city and a province of Spain, on the Mediterranean. Hence, Malaga grapes, Malaga raisins, Malaga wines.

(n.) A roofed open gallery. It differs from a veranda in being more architectural, and in forming more decidedly a part of the main edifice to which it is attached; from a porch, in being intended not for entrance but for an out-of-door sitting-room.

(n.) A membrane extending between the toes of a bird, and uniting them more or less closely together.

(n.) A rare white earthy substance, consisting of the oxide of thorium; -- formerly called also thorina.

(n.) A genus of small marine bivalve shells, having a pearly interior.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of marine gastropods belonging to Natica, Lunatia, Neverita, and other allied genera (family Naticidae.) They burrow beneath the sand, or mud, and drill other shells.

(n.) Seasickness; hence, any similar sickness of the stomach accompanied with a propensity to vomit; qualm; squeamishness of the stomach; loathing.

(n.) The fur of the coypu. See Coypu.

(n.) A faint, cloudlike, self-luminous mass of matter situated beyond the solar system among the stars. True nebulae are gaseous; but very distant star clusters often appear like them in the telescope.

(n.) A white spot or a slight opacity of the cornea.

(n.) A cloudy appearance in the urine.

(n.) Same as Nymph, 3.

(n.) Two folds of mucous membrane, within the labia, at the opening of the vulva.

(n.) A genus of bombycid moths whose caterpillars (esp. those of Orgyia leucostigma) are often very injurious to fruit trees and shade trees. The female is wingless. Called also vaporer moth.

(pl. ) of Oblatum

(n.) A genus of Australian gallinaceous birds including but a single species (Leipoa ocellata), about the size of a turkey. Its color is variegated, brown, black, white, and gray. Called also native pheasant.

(n.) A goddess who protected newborn infants.

(n.) A tongue.

(n.) A median process of the labium, at the under side of the mouth in insects, and serving as a tongue.

(n.) A tumor consisting of fat or adipose tissue.

(n.) The oxide of lithium; a strong alkaline caustic similar to potash and soda, but weaker. See Lithium.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of large, handsome marine gastropods belonging to Voluta and allied genera.

(n.) An abscess cavity in the lungs.

(n.) An abscess in any other parenchymatous organ.

(n. pl.) An order of Rhizopoda, in which the pseudopodia are thick and irregular in form, as in the Amoeba.

(n. pl.) The discharge from the womb and vagina which follows childbirth.

(pl. ) of Osculum

(n.) The Spanish dollar; -- called also patacoon.

(n.) A saucerlike vessel of earthenware or metal, used by the Greeks and Romans in libations and sacrificies.

(n.) A circular ornament, resembling a dish, often worked in relief on friezes, and the like.

(n.) A genus of bivalve Mollusca which includes the true oysters.

(n.) A dish or plate of metal or earthenware; a patella.

(n.) The color or incrustation which age gives to works of art; especially, the green rust which covers ancient bronzes, coins, and medals.

(n.) A greave or legging.

(n.) A kind of sheath formed by two stipules united round a stem.

(n. pl.) An extensive division of ruminants, including the antelopes, deer, and cattle.

(a.) Most remote; furthest; final; last.

(n.) The last syllable of a word.

(n.) A thin plate or scale; a layer or coat lying over another; -- said of thin plates or platelike substances, as of bone or minerals.

(n.) The blade of a leaf; the broad, expanded portion of a petal or sepal of a flower.

(n.) A thin plate or scale; specif., one of the thin, flat processes composing the vane of a feather.

(n.) The name of the Greek letter /, /, corresponding with the English letter L, l.

(n.) The point of junction of the sagittal and lambdoid sutures of the skull.

(n.) A small opening; a small pit or depression; a small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.

(n.) The terminal part of the cochlea in birds and most reptiles; an appendage of the sacculus, corresponding to the cochlea, in fishes and amphibians.

(n.) A small opening; a small depression or cavity; a space, as a vacant space between the cells of plants, or one of the spaces left among the tissues of the lower animals, which serve in place of vessels for the circulation of the body fluids, or the cavity or sac, usually of very small size, in a mucous membrane.

(pl. ) of Labarum

(n.) The gemsbok.

(n.) pl. of Pleuron.

(n. fem.) The smooth serous membrane which closely covers the lungs and the adjacent surfaces of the thorax; the pleural membrane.

(n. fem.) The closed sac formed by the pleural membrane about each lung, or the fold of membrane connecting each lung with the body wall.

(n. fem.) Same as Pleuron.

(pl. ) of Pleuron

(n.) The jugal, malar, or cheek bone.

(n.) The zygomatic process of the temporal bone.

(n.) The whole zygomatic arch.

(n.) The sphere or globular mass of cells (blastomeres), formed by the clevage of the ovum or egg in the first stages of its development; -- called also mulberry mass, segmentation sphere, and blastosphere. See Segmentation.

(n.) See Direct, n.

(n.) A genus of leguminous plants, containing many species, and including the sensitive plants (Mimosa sensitiva, and M. pudica).

(pl. ) of Minimum

(pl. ) of Jugulum

(n.) A kind of demigod attendant on Kuvera, the god of wealth.

(n.) A collection or digest of Jewish traditions and explanations of Scripture, forming the text of the Talmud.

(n.) A moor.

(n.) A drove of mules.

(n.) A genus of labiate plants, including the catnip and ground ivy.

(n.) A genus of marine gastropods, mostly natives of warm climates.

(n.) Alt. of Panade

(n.) One of the scales of a leaf bud.

(n.) A pouchlike portion of the perianth in certain orchides.

(n.) A Spanish silver coin, and money of account, equal to about nineteen cents, and divided into 100 centesimos.

(n.) The passover; the feast of Easter.

(n.) Any small leaping thysanurous insect of the genus Podura and related genera; a springtail.

(n.) A genus of fungi embracing a great number of species, some of which are remarkable for their regular cuplike form and deep colors.

(n.) See Cabala.

(n.) A genus of North American shrubs with poisonous evergreen foliage and corymbs of showy flowers. Called also mountain laurel, ivy bush, lamb kill, calico bush, etc.

(n.) The red dusty hairs of the capsules of an East Indian tree (Mallotus Philippinensis) used for dyeing silk. It is violently emetic, and is used in the treatment of tapeworm.

(n.) A native of the Sandwich Islands.

(n.) a New Zealand tree, the Cypress cedar (Libocedrus Doniana), having a valuable, fine-grained, reddish wood.

(n.) An apparition; a phantom; an appearance.

(n.) One of a class of sacred Hindoo poetical works in the Sanskrit language which treat of the creation, destruction, and renovation of worlds, the genealogy and achievements of gods and heroes, the reigns of the Manus, and the transactions of their descendants. The principal Puranas are eighteen in number, and there are the same number of supplementary books called Upa Puranas.

(pl. ) of Pallium

(n.) A large voracious fresh-water fish (Serrasalmo piraya) of South America, having lancet-shaped teeth.