(n. pl.) An ancient Low German tribe, that settled in Britain, which came to be called Engla-land (Angleland or England). The Angles probably came from the district of Angeln (now within the limits of Schleswig), and the country now Lower Hanover, etc.

(n.) A table or tray strewn with sand, anciently used for drawing, calculating, etc.

(n.) A calculating table or frame; an instrument for performing arithmetical calculations by balls sliding on wires, or counters in grooves, the lowest line representing units, the second line, tens, etc. It is still employed in China.

(n.) The uppermost member or division of the capital of a column, immediately under the architrave. See Column.

(n.) A tablet, panel, or compartment in ornamented or mosaic work.

(n.) A board, tray, or table, divided into perforated compartments, for holding cups, bottles, or the like; a kind of cupboard, buffet, or sideboard.

(n.) Animating spirit; intention; temper.

(n. pl.) A relation of events in chronological order, each event being recorded under the year in which it happened.

(n. pl.) Historical records; chronicles; history.

(n. pl.) The record of a single event or item.

(n. pl.) A periodic publication, containing records of discoveries, transactions of societies, etc.; as "Annals of Science."

(n. pl.) Alt. of Annates

(n.) A genus of lizards which belong to the family Iguanidae. They take the place in the New World of the chameleons in the Old, and in America are often called chameleons.

(pl. ) of Agami

(n.) An Egyptian deity, the conductor of departed spirits, represented by a human figure with the head of a dog or fox.

(n.) A genus of large and voracious two-winged flies, including the bee killer and robber fly.

(pl. ) of Apex

(pl. ) of Apex

(n. pl.) See Apex.

(pl. ) of Agon

(pl. ) of Apode

(n. pl.) An order of fishes without ventral fins, including the eels.

(n. pl.) A group of holothurians destitute of suckers. See Apneumona.

(adv.) Perhaps; possibly.

(n.) A female pope; i. e., the fictitious pope Joan.

(n.) An upper garment worn by Grecian and Roman women.

(n.) A kind of kerchief formerly worn by Englishwomen.

(n.) A band of singers and dancers.

(n.) A company of persons supposed to behold what passed in the acts of a tragedy, and to sing the sentiments which the events suggested in couplets or verses between the acts; also, that which was thus sung by the chorus.

(n.) An interpreter in a dumb show or play.

(n.) A company of singers singing in concert.

(n.) A composition of two or more parts, each of which is intended to be sung by a number of voices.

(n.) Parts of a song or hymn recurring at intervals, as at the end of stanzas; also, a company of singers who join with the singer or choir in singer or choir in singing such parts.

(n.) The simultaneous of a company in any noisy demonstration; as, a Chorus of shouts and catcalls.

(v. i.) To sing in chorus; to exclaim simultaneously.

(pl. ) of Chose

(pl. ) of Copy

(pl. ) of Corf

(n.) See Corm.

(n.) A vegetable or animal made up of a number of individuals, such as, for example, would be formed by a process of budding from a parent stalk wherre the buds remain attached.

(n.) A small, low pillar, square or round, commonly having an inscription, used by the ancients for various purposes, as for indicating the distances of places, for a landmark, for sepulchral inscriptions, etc.

(n.) A level oblong space surrounded on three sides by seats of wood, earth, or stone, rising in tiers one above another, and divided lengthwise through the middle by a barrier around which the track or course was laid out. It was used for chariot races, games, and public shows.

(n.) A circular inclosure for the exhibition of feats of horsemanship, acrobatic displays, etc. Also, the company of performers, with their equipage.

(n.) Circuit; space; inclosure.

(n.) A tendril or clasper.

(n.) A soft tactile appendage of the mantle of many Mollusca, and of the parapodia of Annelida. Those near the head of annelids are Tentacular cirri; those of the last segment are caudal cirri.

(n.) The jointed, leglike organs of Cirripedia. See Annelida, and Polychaeta.

(n.) The external male organ of trematodes and some other worms, and of certain Mollusca.

(n.) See under Cloud.

(n.) A city woman

(n.) A body, living or dead; the corporeal substance of a thing.

(n.) A genus of trees including the orange, lemon, citron, etc., originally natives of southern Asia.

(pl. ) of City

(n.) The science of civil government.

(n. pl.) The legislative assembly, composed of nobility, clergy, and representatives of cities, which in Spain and in Portugal answers, in some measure, to the Parliament of Great Britain.

(n.) Plain India muslin, of various qualities and widths.

(n.) The act of going out or leaving, or the power to leave; departure.

(n.) The passing off from the sun's disk of an inferior planet, in a transit.

(v. i.) To go out; to depart; to leave.

(v. t.) To shake off; to discard.

(v. t.) To inspect; to investigate; to decipher.

(v. t.) To seize and detain by law, as goods.

(n.) A genus of palms.

(n.) Same as Fetus.

(pl. ) of Fogy

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the thymus gland.

(n.) The thymus gland.

(pl. ) of Dogma

(pl. ) of Folio

(n.) A style of printing calico, paper hangings, etc., in which the colors are in bands and graduated into each other.

(n.) One of the separable carpels of a dry fruit.

(n.) A genus of hemipterous insects, including scale insects, and the cochineal insect (Coccus cacti).

(n.) A form of bacteria, shaped like a globule.

(n.) A plant of several species of the Mint family, cultivated for its bright-colored or variegated leaves.

(pl. ) of Junto

(n.) A genus of plants, mostly herbs, with acid-tasting trifoliolate or multifoliolate leaves; -- called also wood sorrel.

(n.) The mayweed. Cf. Maghet.

(n. pl.) A tribe of Indians that formerly occupied the country between the Wabash and Maumee rivers.

(n. pl.) See Small, n., 2, 3.

(n.) A coarse linen cloth made in the north of England and in Scotland, now nearly replaced by calico.

(pl. ) of Doxy

(pl. ) of Dozen

(n.) A serpent whose bite was fabled to produce intense thirst.

(n.) A genus of harmless colubrine snakes.

(n.) A genus of magnoliaceous trees. Drimys aromatica furnishes Winter's bark.

(n.) The innermost of the ossicles of the ear; the stirrup, or stirrup bone; -- so called from its form. See Illust. of Ear.

(n.) A very vascular superficial opacity of the cornea, usually caused by granulation of the eyelids.

(n.) A slackening or arrest of the blood current in the vessels, due not to a lessening of the heart's beat, but presumably to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls. It is one of the phenomena observed in the capillaries in inflammation.

(n.) Foul matter; excretion; dregs; filthy, useless, or rejected matter of any kind; specifically (Med.), the foul matter that collects on the teeth and tongue in low fevers and other conditions attended with great vital depression.

(pl. ) of Ruby

(pl. ) of Redia

(n.) The spine; the vertebral column.

(n.) Same as Rhachis.

(a.) Wanting in muscle; without flesh.

(n.) A genus of fishes, remarkable for their power of living long out of water, and of making their way on land for considerable distances, and for climbing trees; the climbing fishes.

(v.) To value; to make a valuation or official estimate of for the purpose of taxation.

(v.) To apportion a sum to be paid by (a person, a community, or an estate), in the nature of a tax, fine, etc.; to impose a tax upon (a person, an estate, or an income) according to a rate or apportionment.

(v.) To determine and impose a tax or fine upon (a person, community, estate, or income); to tax; as, the club assessed each member twenty-five cents.

(v.) To fix or determine the rate or amount of.

(n. pl.) Property of a deceased person, subject by law to the payment of his debts and legacies; -- called assets because sufficient to render the executor or administrator liable to the creditors and legatees, so far as such goods or estate may extend.

(n. pl.) Effects of an insolvent debtor or bankrupt, applicable to the payment of debts.

(n. pl.) The entire property of all sorts, belonging to a person, a corporation, or an estate; as, the assets of a merchant or a trading association; -- opposed to liabilities.

(n.) A right line drawn or extending from the center of a circle to the periphery; the semidiameter of a circle or sphere.

(n.) The preaxial bone of the forearm, or brachium, corresponding to the tibia of the hind limb. See Illust. of Artiodactyla.

(n.) A ray, or outer floret, of the capitulum of such plants as the sunflower and the daisy. See Ray, 2.

(n.) The barbs of a perfect feather.

(n.) Radiating organs, or color-markings, of the radiates.

(n.) The movable limb of a sextant or other angular instrument.

(n.) The pineapple (Ananassa sativa).

(a.) Same as Binate.

(a.) Coal-black; very black.

(n.) A coarse kind of thick woolen cloth, worn by the poor in the Middle Ages; also, a woolen cap or hood worn over the shoulders or over the head.

(n.) A resin, called also galipot.

(pl. ) of Bass

(n. pl.) The name of a kind of in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape, and residue of the wine press.

(n. pl.) Soot flying in the air.

(n. pl.) Black garments, etc. See Black, n., 4.

(a.) Containing gold.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, gold; -- said of those compounds of gold in which this element has its lower valence; as, aurous oxide.

(n.) A vernier.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the algae, or seaweeds; abounding with, or like, seaweed.

(pl. ) of Alley

(pl. ) of Alley

() pl. of Arch, n.

(pl. ) of Ally

(n.) Alt. of Abattis

(n.) A female superior or governess of a nunnery, or convent of nuns, having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have over the monks. See Abbey.

(n.) The channel of a river.

(adv.) At all times; ever; perpetually; throughout all time; continually; as, God is always the same.

(adv.) Constancy during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals; invariably; uniformly; -- opposed to sometimes or occasionally.

(n. sing. & pl.) Compensation for a loss or injury; recompense; reparation.

(n.) Same as Amnion.

(pl. ) of Quipu

(a.) Elevated, -- as a toe, when raised so high that the tip does not touch the ground.

(pl. ) of Rabbi

(n.) Same as Hydrophobia (b); canine madness.

(n.) A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.

(pl. ) of Bayou

(a.) A name given to several different species of plants having blue flowers, as the Houstonia coerulea, the Centaurea cyanus or bluebottle, and the Vaccinium angustifolium.

(a.) Wanting reverence; void of respectful fear.

(a.) Inspiring no awe.

(pl. ) of Baby

(n.) plural of Beef, the animal.

(pl. ) of Body

(pl. ) of Bogy

(n.) A cloth of exceedingly fine texture, used by the ancients. It is disputed whether it was of cotton, linen, or silk.

(n.) A tuft of long, tough filaments which are formed in a groove of the foot, and issue from between the valves of certain bivalve mollusks, as the Pinna and Mytilus, by which they attach themselves to rocks, etc.

(n.) An obsolete name for certain fungi composed of slender threads.

(n.) Asbestus.

(n.) Any plant of the order Cactacae, as the prickly pear and the night-blooming cereus. See Cereus. They usually have leafless stems and branches, often beset with clustered thorns, and are mostly natives of the warmer parts of America.

(n.) The larva of a caddice fly. These larvae generally live in cylindrical cases, open at each end, and covered externally with pieces of broken shells, gravel, bits of wood, etc. They are a favorite bait with anglers. Called also caddice worm, or caddis worm.

(n.) A kind of worsted lace or ribbon.

(a.) Reddish; of a yellowish red or brownish red color; tawny.

(a.) Wrinkled; rugose.

(n.) A disturbance; noise and confusion; a quarrel.

(v. t.) To toss back or again.

(n. pl.) See Calx.

(pl. ) of Calf

(n.) Same as Callosity

(n.) The material of repair in fractures of bone; a substance exuded at the site of fracture, which is at first soft or cartilaginous in consistence, but is ultimately converted into true bone and unites the fragments into a single piece.

(n.) The new formation over the end of a cutting, before it puts out rootlets.

(pl. ) of Calx

(pl. ) of Calx

(n.) A blue-flowered liliaceous plant (Camassia esculenta) of northwestern America, the bulbs of which are collected for food by the Indians.

(n.) A sac.

(pl. ) of Cameo

(n.) See Camass.

(n.) The principal grounds of a college or school, between the buildings or within the main inclosure; as, the college campus.

(n.) State; condition; position of affairs.

(n.) pl. of Staff.

(pl.) pl. of Stave.

(pl. ) of Sors

(n.) A quoit; a circular plate of some heavy material intended to be pitched or hurled as a trial of strength and skill.

(n.) The exercise with the discus.

(n.) A disk. See Disk.

(n.) Alt. of Bank

(n.) A northern constellation, containing the bright star Arcturus.

(n.) The north wind; -- usually a personification.

(v. t.) To put in violent motion; to agitate; to disturb; to toss.

(pl. ) of Bosh

(pl. ) of Bevy

(n.) Same as Bower.

(pl. ) of Bias

(pl. ) of Boyau

(pl. ) of Boss

(n.) A sort of bridle with wooden side pieces.

(n.) A scolding bridle, an instrument formerly used for correcting scolding women. It was an iron frame surrounding the head and having a triangular piece entering the mouth of the scold.

(a.) Ramose.

(n.) A monkey; the bhunder.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a king; royal.

(a.) That which makes one rich; an abundance of land, goods, money, or other property; wealth; opulence; affluence.

(a.) That which appears rich, sumptuous, precious, or the like.

(n.) The gape of the mouth, as of birds; -- often resricted to the corners of the mouth.

(n.) A narrow space between the foot of the rampart and the scarp of the ditch, serving to receive the earth that may crumble off or be washed down, and prevent its falling into the ditch.

(n.) The raspberry.

(a.) Rimose.

(n.) The deep sensitive layer of the skin beneath the scarfskin or epidermis; -- called also true skin, derm, derma, corium, cutis, and enderon. See Skin, and Illust. in Appendix.

(pl. ) of Ditto

(pl. ) of Sigma

(pl. ) of Silva

(n. pl.) Alt. of Selvas

(n. pl.) Vast woodland plains of South America.

(pl. ) of Catso

(n.) A meeting, especially a preliminary meeting, of persons belonging to a party, to nominate candidates for public office, or to select delegates to a nominating convention, or to confer regarding measures of party policy; a political primary meeting.

(v. i.) To hold, or meet in, a caucus or caucuses.

(n. pl.) The hair on the eyelids of a horse.

(pl. ) of Caulis

(n.) An herbaceous or woody stem which bears leaves, and may bear flowers.

(pl. ) of Cavy

(pl. ) of Cello

(n.) See 1st Scape.

(pl. ) of Scarf

(n.) A Mediterranean food fish (Sparisoma scarus) of excellent quality and highly valued by the Romans; -- called also parrot fish.

(n.) A numbering of the people, and valuation of their estate, for the purpose of imposing taxes, etc.; -- usually made once in five years.

(n.) An official registration of the number of the people, the value of their estates, and other general statistics of a country.

(pl. ) of Cento

(a.) Knowing; having knowledge.

(n.) See Cercopod.

(n.) A genus of plants of the Cactus family. They are natives of America, from California to Chili.

(n.) A species of oak (Quercus cerris) native in the Orient and southern Europe; -- called also bitter oak and Turkey oak.

(adv.) Certainly; in truth; verily.

(n.) A genus of ruminants, including the red deer and other allied species.

(pl. ) of Bubo

(n.) A girdle; particularly that of Aphrodite (or Venus) which gave the wearer the power of exciting love.

(n.) A genus of Ctenophora. The typical species (Cestus Veneris) is remarkable for its brilliant iridescent colors, and its long, girdlelike form.

(n.) A covering for the hands of boxers, made of leather bands, and often loaded with lead or iron.

(a.) Having a very flat or snub nose, with the end turned up.

(n.) The separation of the parts of a compound word by the intervention of one or more words; as, in what place soever, for whatsoever place.

(n.) A name given to a vase having a rounded body

(n.) A closed vessel of nearly spherical form on a high stem or pedestal.

(n.) A drinking cup having a foot and stem.

(n.) A youth beloved by Venus for his beauty. He was killed in the chase by a wild boar.

(n.) A preeminently beautiful young man; a dandy.

(n.) A genus of plants of the family Ranunculaceae, containing the pheasant's eye (Adonis autumnalis); -- named from Adonis, whose blood was fabled to have stained the flower.

(n. pl.) A name designating the East Indies, also the West Indies.

(n.) Alt. of Indri

(a.) Abounding in tone or sound.

(pl. ) of Tony

(n.) A fine cotton cloth of India.

(n. pl.) Dried grain, as oats or wheat, hulled and broken or crushed; in high milling, cracked fragments of wheat larger than grits.

(pl. ) of Delta

(pl. ) of Talma

(n.) A genus of ground squirrels, including the chipmunk.

(pl. ) of Sutra

(pl. ) of Guano

(n. pl.) A body of picked troops; as, "The Household Guards."

(n.) See Trass.

(n.) The ankle; the bones or cartilages of the part of the foot between the metatarsus and the leg, consisting in man of seven short bones.

(n.) A plate of dense connective tissue or cartilage in the eyelid of man and many animals; -- called also tarsal cartilage, and tarsal plate.

(n.) The foot of an insect or a crustacean. It usually consists of form two to five joints.

(pl. ) of Ephor

(n.) A brilliant glass, used in the manufacture of artificial paste gems, which consists essentially of a complex borosilicate of lead and potassium. Cf. Glass.

(n.) Distress.

(n.) Pressure, strain; -- used chiefly of immaterial things; except in mechanics; hence, urgency; importance; weight; significance.

(n.) The force, or combination of forces, which produces a strain; force exerted in any direction or manner between contiguous bodies, or parts of bodies, and taking specific names according to its direction, or mode of action, as thrust or pressure, pull or tension, shear or tangential stress.

(n.) Force of utterance expended upon words or syllables. Stress is in English the chief element in accent and is one of the most important in emphasis. See Guide to pronunciation, // 31-35.

(n.) Distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.

(v. t.) To press; to urge; to distress; to put to difficulties.

(v. t.) To subject to stress, pressure, or strain.

(n.) A hard tumor developed from the gums.

(n.) A place of nether darkness, being the gloomy space through which the souls passed to Hades. See Milton's "Paradise Lost," Book II., line 883.

(n.) The son of Chaos and brother of Nox, who dwelt in Erebus.

(n.) An avenging deity; one of the Furies; sometimes, conscience personified.

(pl. ) of Self

(n.) pl. of Self.

(n.) That branch of geometry which treats of the cone and the curves which arise from its sections.

(n.) Conic sections.

(n.) A genus including many species of small mites.

(n. pl.) See Cates.

(n.) A garland carried before the bier of a maiden.

(n.) A mixture of constituents, as of the blood; constitution; temperament.

(n.) A contraction of two vowels (as the final and initial vowels of united words) into one long vowel, or into a diphthong; synaeresis; as, cogo for coago.

(pl. ) of Sepia

(n.) The poisoning of the system by the introduction of putrescent material into the blood.

(pl. ) of Canto

(n.) A strong cloth made of hemp, flax, or cotton; -- used for tents, sails, etc.

(n.) A coarse cloth so woven as to form regular meshes for working with the needle, as in tapestry, or worsted work.

(n.) A piece of strong cloth of which the surface has been prepared to receive painting, commonly painting in oil.

(n.) Something for which canvas is used: (a) A sail, or a collection of sails. (b) A tent, or a collection of tents. (c) A painting, or a picture on canvas.

(n.) A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or musical composition; esp. one to show a poet the measure of the verses he is to make.

(a.) Made of, pertaining to, or resembling, canvas or coarse cloth; as, a canvas tent.

(n.) A writ or process commanding the officer to take the body of the person named in it, that is, to arrest him; -- also called writ of capias.

(adv.) Perhaps.

(a.) Not energetic or exact in duty or business; not careful or prompt in fulfilling engagements; negligent; careless; tardy; behindhand; lagging; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow.

(n.) The act of being remiss; inefficiency; failure.

(n.) A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides.

(n.) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.

(n.) Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school.

(n.) Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc.

(n.) A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.

(n.) Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science.

(n.) A sinus.

(v. t.) To make a recess in; as, to recess a wall.

(n.) A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.

(v. t.) To pass again; to pass or travel over in the opposite direction; to pass a second time; as, to repass a bridge or a river; to repass the sea.

(v. i.) To pass or go back; to move back; as, troops passing and repassing before our eyes.

(n.) A straight muscle; as, the recti of the eye.

(n.) A female ogre.

(a.) Nodose; knotty; knotted.

(pl. ) of Clavis

(n.) A key; a glossary.

(n.) A callous growth, esp. one the foot; a corn.

(n.) A ragout of partly roasted game stewed with sauce, wine, bread, and condiments suited to provoke appetite.

(pl. ) of Salpa

(pl. ) of Salvo

(n.) A piece of metal bent in the form of an oxbow, with the two ends perforated to receive a pin, used on the end of the tongue of a plow, wagen, etc., to attach it to a draft chain, whiffletree, etc.; -- called also clavel, clevy.

(n.) An act of endearment; any act or expression of affection; an embracing, or touching, with tenderness.

(n.) A thin, serous fluid commonly discharged from ulcers or foul wounds.

(n.) To treat with tokens of fondness, affection, or kindness; to touch or speak to in a loving or endearing manner; to fondle.

(pl. ) of Carib

(n.) Ulceration of bone; a process in which bone disintegrates and is carried away piecemeal, as distinguished from necrosis, in which it dies in masses.

(pl. ) of Cloth

(n.) A game in which questions are asked for the purpose of enabling the questioners to discover a word or thing previously selected by two persons who answer the questions; -- so called because the players take sides in two "clumps" or groups, the "clump" which guesses the word winning the game.

(n.) Broth or pottage.

(n.) Bread soaked in broth, drippings of roast meat, milk, or water and butter.

(n. pl.) A tribe of Indians who inhabited the south side of the Missouri River. They are now partly civilized and occupy a reservation in Nebraska.

(pl. ) of Coly

(a.) Abounding with bushes and briers.

(a.) Having a compact, bushy form.

(n.) A number of things or events standing or succeeding in order, and connected by a like relation; sequence; order; course; a succession of things; as, a continuous series of calamitous events.

(n.) Any comprehensive group of animals or plants including several subordinate related groups.

(n.) An indefinite number of terms succeeding one another, each of which is derived from one or more of the preceding by a fixed law, called the law of the series; as, an arithmetical series; a geometrical series.

(a.) Thin; watery; like serum; as the serous fluids.

(a.) Of or pertaining to serum; as, the serous glands, membranes, layers. See Serum.

(n.) A thin layer of peculiar contractile tissue directly beneath the skin of the scrotum.

(a.) Thickly set with bristles or bristly hairs.

(n.) The crawfish.

(n. pl.) See Dyaks.

(pl. ) of Crisis

(n.) The point of time when it is to be decided whether any affair or course of action must go on, or be modified or terminate; the decisive moment; the turning point.

(n.) That change in a disease which indicates whether the result is to be recovery or death; sometimes, also, a striking change of symptoms attended by an outward manifestation, as by an eruption or sweat.

(pl. ) of Arena

(n.) A genus of American monkeys with prehensile tails, and having the thumb wanting or rudimentary. See Spider monkey, and Coaita.

(n.) A genus of iridaceous plants, with pretty blossoms rising separately from the bulb or corm. C. vernus is one of the earliest of spring-blooming flowers; C. sativus produces the saffron, and blossoms in the autumn.

(n.) A deep yellow powder; the oxide of some metal calcined to a red or deep yellow color; esp., the oxide of iron (Crocus of Mars or colcothar) thus produced from salts of iron, and used as a polishing powder.

(n.) A coming to, or near approach; admittance; admission; accessibility; as, to gain access to a prince.

(n.) The means, place, or way by which a thing may be approached; passage way; as, the access is by a neck of land.

(n.) Admission to sexual intercourse.

(n.) Increase by something added; addition; as, an access of territory. [In this sense accession is more generally used.]

(n.) An onset, attack, or fit of disease.

(n.) A paroxysm; a fit of passion; an outburst; as, an access of fury.

(n. pl.) Glandular scrofulous swellings in the neck.

(pl. ) of Crux

(pl. ) of Crux

(n.) Broken and detached fragments, taken collectively; especially, fragments detached from a rock or mountain, and piled up at the base.

(n.) Rubbish, especially such as results from the destruction of anything; remains; ruins.

(pl. ) of Canoe

(n.) The wrist; the bones or cartilages between the forearm, or antibrachium, and the hand or forefoot; in man, consisting of eight short bones disposed in two rows.

(n.) A strong broth of meat, strained and made clear for invalids; also, a savory jelly.

(n.) A gutter in a roof; a channel or groove.

(n.) A division, at one end of a tennis court, for spectators.

(n. sing. & pl.) Established or accepted religious rites or usages of worship; state of religious development. Cf. Cult, 2.

(a.) Oily.

(n.) Hardship; constraint; pressure; imprisonment; restraint of liberty.

(n.) The state of compulsion or necessity in which a person is influenced, whether by the unlawful restrain of his liberty or by actual or threatened physical violence, to incur a civil liability or to commit an offense.

(v. t.) To subject to duress.

(a.) Hard.

(pl. ) of Duty

(pl. ) of Dwarf

(pl. ) of Staff

(pl. ) of Staff

(pl. ) of Staff

(pl. ) of Espy

(pl. ) of Essay

(n.) The science of human duty; the body of rules of duty drawn from this science; a particular system of principles and rules concerting duty, whether true or false; rules of practice in respect to a single class of human actions; as, political or social ethics; medical ethics.

(n.) The Bull; the second in order of the twelve signs of the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of April; -- marked thus [/] in almanacs.

(n.) A zodiacal constellation, containing the well-known clusters called the Pleiades and the Hyades, in the latter of which is situated the remarkably bright Aldebaran.

(n.) A genus of ruminants comprising the common domestic cattle.

(n.) A Scotch pudding made of the heart, liver, lights, etc., of a sheep or lamb, minced with suet, onions, oatmeal, etc., highly seasoned, and boiled in the stomach of the same animal; minced head and pluck.

(n.) One of the mineral concretions about the joints, and in other situations, occurring chiefly in gouty persons. They consist usually of urate of sodium; when occurring in the internal organs they are also composed of phosphate of calcium.

(n.) Calcareous tufa.

(pl. ) of Hoof

(a.) Torose.

(pl. ) of Torso

(pl. ) of Tory

(pl. ) of Houri

(pl. ) of House

(n.) Long-continued contraction of the pupil of the eye.

(n. sing. & pl.) A natural passage or canal; as, the external auditory meatus. See Illust. of Ear.

(pl. ) of Larva

(pl. ) of Lasso

(a.) Of or pertaining to a vein or veins; as, the venous circulation of the blood.

(a.) Contained in the veins, or having the same qualities as if contained in the veins, that is, having a dark bluish color and containing an insufficient amount of oxygen so as no longer to be fit for oxygenating the tissues; -- said of the blood, and opposed to arterial.

(a.) Marked with veins; veined; as, a venous leaf.

(n.) A genus of trees including, according to modern authors, only the true laurel (Laurus nobilis), and the larger L. Canariensis of Madeira and the Canary Islands. Formerly the sassafras, the camphor tree, the cinnamon tree, and several other aromatic trees and shrubs, were also referred to the genus Laurus.

(n.) A genus of herbs, some species of which, especially the Isatis tinctoria, yield a blue dye similar to indigo; woad.

(n.) A common, large, handsome, American swallowtail butterfly, now regarded as one of the forms of Papilio, / Jasoniades, glaucus. The wings are yellow, margined and barred with black, and with an orange-red spot near the posterior angle of the hind wings. Called also tiger swallowtail. See Illust. under Swallowtail.

() pl. of Turf.

(n.) A genus of parasitic Acarina, which includes various species of ticks. See Tick, the insect.

(n.) Alt. of Jambeux

(n.) The son or husband of Gaia (Earth), and father of Chronos (Time) and the Titans.

(n.) One of the primary planets. It is about 1,800,000,000 miles from the sun, about 36,000 miles in diameter, and its period of revolution round the sun is nearly 84 of our years.

(n.) See Aurochs.

(n. pl.) Alt. of Usbeks

(n. pl.) A Turkish tribe which about the close of the 15th century conquered, and settled in, that part of Asia now called Turkestan.

(n.) The organ of a female mammal in which the young are developed previous to birth; the womb.

(n.) A receptacle, or pouch, connected with the oviducts of many invertebrates in which the eggs are retained until they hatch or until the embryos develop more or less. See Illust. of Hermaphrodite in Append.

(a.) Resembling a grape.

(n.) A footman; a flunky.

(n.) From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river.

(adv.) From side to side; crosswise; as, with arms folded across.

(v. t.) To put upon the back or outside of anything; -- the older spelling of endorse.

(n.) A series of strata, of the Middle Tertiary period, of France, abounding in shells, and used by Lyell as the type of his Miocene subdivision.

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, garum.

(a.) Celebrated in fame or public report; renowned; mach talked of; distinguished in story; -- used in either a good or a bad sense, chiefly the former; often followed by for; as, famous for erudition, for eloquence, for military skill; a famous pirate.

(n.) The Dog Star. See Dog Star.

(n. pl.) A tribe or confederacy of North American Indians, including the Muskogees, Seminoles, Uchees, and other subordinate tribes. They formerly inhabited Georgia, Florida, and Alabama.

(a.) Different in kind or species; diverse.

(a.) Several; sundry; various; more than one, but not a great number; as, divers philosophers. Also used substantively or pronominally.

(n. pl.) A kind of large, coarse, short trousers formerly worn.

(pl. ) of Djinnee

(pl. ) of Dodo

(pl. ) of Doing

(pl. ) of Diesis

(n.) A small interval, less than any in actual practice, but used in the mathematical calculation of intervals.

(n.) The mark /; -- called also double dagger.

(v.) Sledge runners on which a skip is dragged in a mine.

(pl. ) of Dory

(pl. ) of Dory

(n.) The teledu.

(n.) A circle, or disk, or any indication of radiant light around the heads of divinities, saints, and sovereigns, upon medals, pictures, etc.; a halo. See Aureola, and Glory, n., 5.

(n.) A rain cloud; one of the four principal varieties of clouds. See Cloud.

(n.) pl. of Sors.

(n. pl.) See Sowens.

(n. pl.) A nutritious article of food, much used in Scotland, made from the husk of the oat by a process not unlike that by which common starch is made; -- called flummery in England.

(n. pl.) See Sowens.

(n.) The second joint of a maxilla of an insect or a crustacean.

(n.) An eyestalk.

(n.) Stock; race; family.

(n.) A race, or a fixed and permanent variety.

(n.) A regulus consisting essentially of nickel, obtained as a residue in fusing cobalt and nickel ores with silica and sodium carbonate to make smalt.

(n.) An invocation of, or address to, the Supreme Being.

(pl. ) of Curio

(pl. ) of Sexto

(n.) A point; a sharp end.

(n.) A keeper; a custodian; a superintendent.

(n.) A long gown or surcoat (cut off in front), worn in the Middle Ages. It was sometimes embroidered or interwoven with gold. Also, a rich stuff from which the gown was made.

(n.) A constellation of the northern hemisphere east of, or following, Lyra; the Swan.

(prep.) Out of; without; foreign to; out of the agreement, record, will, or other instrument.

(n.) All sorts of outworks in general, at a distance from the main works; any advanced works for protection or cover.

(a.) Having the nature of a cyme, or derived from a cyme; bearing, or pertaining to, a cyme or cymes.

(n.) A rule for construing written instruments so as to conform as nearly to the intention of the parties as is consistent with law.

(n.) A genus of small, bivalve, fresh-water Crustacea, belonging to the Ostracoda; also, a member of this genus.

(n.) A thin, transparent stuff, the same as, or corresponding to, crape. It was either white or black, the latter being most common, and used for mourning.

(pl. ) of Delay

(n.) A cyst. See Cyst.

(n. pl.) The most westerly branch of the great Slavic family of nations, numbering now more than 6,000,000, and found principally in Bohemia and Moravia. D () The fourth letter of the English alphabet, and a vocal consonant. The English letter is from Latin, which is from Greek, which took it from Ph/nician, the probable ultimate origin being Egyptian. It is related most nearly to t and th; as, Eng. deep, G. tief; Eng. daughter, G. tochter, Gr. qyga`thr, Skr. duhitr. See Guide to Pronunciation, Ã178, 179, 229.

(n.) A cutting instrument.

(n.) An instrument consisting of two blades, commonly with bevel edges, connected by a pivot, and working on both sides of the material to be cut, -- used for cutting cloth and other substances.

(n.) A similar instrument the blades of which are extensions of a curved spring, -- used for shearing sheep or skins.

(n.) A shearing machine; a blade, or a set of blades, working against a resisting edge.

(n.) Anything in the form of shears.

(n.) A pair of wings.

(n.) An apparatus for raising heavy weights, and especially for stepping and unstepping the lower masts of ships. It consists of two or more spars or pieces of timber, fastened together near the top, steadied by a guy or guys, and furnished with the necessary tackle.

(n.) The bedpiece of a machine tool, upon which a table or slide rest is secured; as, the shears of a lathe or planer. See Illust. under Lathe.

(pl. ) of Dado

(n.) Retirement; retreat; secession.

(a.) Cast down; humble; submissive.

(pl. ) of Demy

(pl. ) of Envy

(pl.) A bundle of rods, having among them an ax with the blade projecting, borne before the Roman magistrates as a badge of their authority.

(n.) A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman.

(v. i.) To go about in an idle or slatternly fashion; to trape; to traipse.

(n.pl.) The narrow passage from the mouth to the pharynx, situated between the soft palate and the base of the tongue; -- called also the isthmus of the fauces. On either side of the passage two membranous folds, called the pillars of the fauces, inclose the tonsils.

(n.pl.) The throat of a calyx, corolla, etc.

(n.pl.) That portion of the interior of a spiral shell which can be seen by looking into the aperture.

(n.) See Faun.

(pl. ) of Faux

(n.) A good or evil spirit, or demon, supposed by the ancients to preside over a man's destiny in life; a tutelary deity; a supernatural being; a spirit, good or bad. Cf. Jinnee.

(n.) The peculiar structure of mind with whoch each individual is endowed by nature; that disposition or aptitude of mind which is peculiar to each man, and which qualifies him for certain kinds of action or special success in any pursuit; special taste, inclination, or disposition; as, a genius for history, for poetry, or painting.

(n.) Peculiar character; animating spirit, as of a nation, a religion, a language.

(n.) Distinguished mental superiority; uncommon intellectual power; especially, superior power of invention or origination of any kind, or of forming new combinations; as, a man of genius.

(n.) A man endowed with uncommon vigor of mind; a man of superior intellectual faculties; as, Shakespeare was a rare genius.

(pl. ) of Gens

(n.) A going out; particularly (the Exodus), the going out or journey of the Israelites from Egypt under the conduct of Moses; and hence, any large migration from a place.

(n.) The second of the Old Testament, which contains the narrative of the departure of the Israelites from Egypt.

(n. pl.) Alt. of Foolahs

(v. t.) To arise the surface of into bosses or protuberances; particularly, to ornament with raised work.

(v. t.) To raise in relief from a surface, as an ornament, a head on a coin, or the like.

(v. t.) To make to foam at the mouth, like a hunted animal.

(v. t.) To hide or conceal in a thicket; to imbosk; to inclose, shelter, or shroud in a wood.

(v. t.) To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset.

(v. i.) To seek the bushy forest; to hide in the woods.

(a.) Producing smoke; smoky.

(a.) Producing fumes; full of fumes.

(n.) The bottom or base of any hollow organ; as, the fundus of the bladder; the fundus of the eye.

(n.) Any one of the Fungi, a large and very complex group of thallophytes of low organization, -- the molds, mildews, rusts, smuts, mushrooms, toadstools, puff balls, and the allies of each.

(n.) A spongy, morbid growth or granulation in animal bodies, as the proud flesh of wounds.

(n.) A vomiting.

(n. pl.) See Fury, 3.

(pl. ) of Fury

(pl. ) of Extra

(n.) One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.

(n.) A grapestone.

(n.) One of the granular masses which constitute a racemose or compound gland, as the pancreas; also, one of the saccular recesses in the lobules of a racemose gland.

(n.) See Galleass.

(n.) The anterior part of the head; the face.

(n.) The general aspect or habit of a species, or group of species, esp. with reference to its adaptation to its environment.

(n.) The face of a bird, or the front of the head, excluding the bill.

(n.pl.) Excrement; ordure; also, settlings; sediment after infusion or distillation.

(n.pl.) The impure spirit which comes over first and last in the distillation of whisky; -- the former being called the strong faints, and the latter, which is much more abundant, the weak faints. This crude spirit is much impregnated with fusel oil.

(pl. ) of Money

(n.) Alt. of Tretys

(a.) Alt. of Tretys

(a.) Wandering; unsettled.

(n.) A very large marine mammal (Trichecus rosmarus) of the Seal family, native of the Arctic Ocean. The male has long and powerful tusks descending from the upper jaw. It uses these in procuring food and in fighting. It is hunted for its oil, ivory, and skin. It feeds largely on mollusks. Called also morse.

(n.) The hairy or feathery appendage of the achenes of thistles, dandelions, and most other plants of the order Compositae; also, the scales, awns, or bristles which represent the calyx in other plants of the same order.

(n. pl.) An extensive artificial division of the animal kingdom, including the parasitic worms, or helminths, together with the nemerteans, annelids, and allied groups. By some writers the branchiopods, the bryzoans, and the tunicates are also included. The name was used in a still wider sense by Linnaeus and his followers.

(n. pl.) A more restricted group, comprising only the helminths and closely allied orders.

(pl. ) of Leaf

(prep.) Against; as, John Doe versus Richard Roe; -- chiefly used in legal language, and abbreviated to v. or vs.

(pl. ) of Echo

(3d pers. sing. pres.) of Echo

(n. pl.) The tubers of Colocasia antiquorum. See Taro.

(pl. ) of Eddy

(v. t.) An uproar; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl.

(n.) The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness; superfluity; superabundance; extravagance; as, an excess of provisions or of light.

(n.) An undue indulgence of the appetite; transgression of proper moderation in natural gratifications; intemperance; dissipation.

(n.) The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another; remainder; as, the difference between two numbers is the excess of one over the other.

(pl. ) of Jess

(n.) Alt. of Vessets

(pl. ) of Veto

(n.) pl. of Leaf.

(n.) Food; diet.

(n.) A Roman copper coin, equal to one third of the as. See 3d As, 2.

(n.) A gentle slope, or a smooth, gently sloping bank; especially (Fort.), that slope of earth which inclines from the covered way toward the exterior ground or country (see Illust. of Ravelin).

(adv.) Obliquely; athwart; amiss; awry.

(n.) An instrument for writing. See Style, n., 1.

(n.) That needle-shaped part at the tip of the playing arm of phonograph which sits in the groove of a phonograph record while it is turning, to detect the undulations in the phonograph groove and convert them into vibrations which are transmitted to a system (since 1920 electronic) which converts the signal into sound; also called needle. The stylus is frequently composed of metal or diamond.

(n.) The needle-like device used to cut the grooves which record the sound on the original disc during recording of a phonograph record.

(n.) A pen-shaped pointing device used to specify the cursor position on a graphics tablet.

(n. pl.) An order of mammals; the Rodentia.

(n.) A tripod.

(n.) A university examination of questionists, for honors; also, a tripos paper; one who prepares a tripos paper.

(n.) A steelyard.

(n.) A form of weighing machine for heavy wares, consisting of two horizontal bars crossing each other, beaked at the extremities, and supported by a wooden pillar. It is now mostly disused.

(n.) The expressed juice of a plant, for medicinal use.

(n.) A crystalline rock, consisting, like granite, of quartz, feldspar, and mica, but having these materials, especially the mica, arranged in planes, so that it breaks rather easily into coarse slabs or flags. Hornblende sometimes takes the place of the mica, and it is then called hornblendic / syenitic gneiss. Similar varieties of related rocks are also called gneiss.

(n.) The deeper wisdom; knowledge of spiritual truth, such as was claimed by the Gnostics.

(pl. ) of Goaf

(n.) Old workings. See Goaf.

(pl. ) of Goby

(n.) A furrow; a groove; a fissure.

(n.) A dry measure, containing about a peck.

(n.) Science of medicine.

(n.) The third or middle finger; the third digit, or that which corresponds to it.

(pl. ) of Madam

(n.) A foot consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, as in /mans, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one, as invent; an iambic. See the Couplet under Iambic, n.

(pl. ) of Ibex

(pl. ) of Ibex

(pl. ) of Unguis

(n.) The nail, claw, talon, or hoof of a finger, toe, or other appendage.

(n.) One of the terminal hooks on the foot of an insect.

(n.) The slender base of a petal in some flowers; a claw; called also ungula.

(v. t.) To cancel or annul what was done or sealed by a kiss; to cancel by a kiss.

(a.) Pertaining to, or containing, iodine. See -ous (chemical suffix).

(pl. ) of Iris

(pl. ) of Iris

(n.) An inflammation of the iris of the eye.

(conj.) Upon any less condition than (the fact or thing stated in the sentence or clause which follows); if not; supposing that not; if it be not; were it not that; except; as, we shall fail unless we are industrious.

(a.) Glad; gay; merry; joyful; also, affording or inspiring joy; with of before the word or words expressing the cause of joy.

(n.) Magnet.

(interj.) A cry of encouragement to foxhounds.

(n.) See 3d Windlass.

(n.) Alt. of Megasse

(adv.) Hence.

(pl. ) of Henry

(pl. ) of Forum

(n.) See Mercury.

(n.) Originally, a boundary stone dedicated to Hermes as the god of boundaries, and therefore bearing in some cases a head, or head and shoulders, placed upon a quadrangular pillar whose height is that of the body belonging to the head, sometimes having feet or other parts of the body sculptured upon it. These figures, though often representing Hermes, were used for other divinities, and even, in later times, for portraits of human beings. Called also herma. See Terminal statue, under Terminal.

(pl. ) of Hero

(n.) An eruption of the skin, taking various names, according to its form, or the part affected; especially, an eruption of vesicles in small distinct clusters, accompanied with itching or tingling, including shingles, ringworm, and the like; -- so called from its tendency to creep or spread from one part of the skin to another.

(pl. ) of Hiatus

(n.) An opening; an aperture; a gap; a chasm; esp., a defect in a manuscript, where some part is lost or effaced; a space where something is wanting; a break.

(n.) The concurrence of two vowels in two successive words or syllables.

(pl. ) of Tidy

(n. pl.) Close-fitting garments, especially for the lower part of the body and the legs.

(a.) Wild; savage.

(pl. ) of Half

(n. pl.) See Phasel.

(pl. ) of Adieu

(n.) A play in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racket or with the open hand.

(v. t.) To drive backward and forward, as a ball in playing tennis.

(n.) pl. of Half.

(pl. ) of Tenuis

(n.) One of the three surd mutes /, /, /; -- so called in relation to their respective middle letters, or medials, /, /, /, and their aspirates, /, /, /. The term is also applied to the corresponding letters and articulate elements in other languages.

() Having the end hooked or curved.

(n.) The dung of the fox, wolf, boar, or badger.

(pl. ) of Fico

(pl. ) of Finch

(n.) A genus of Pseudoneuroptera including the white ants, or termites. See Termite.

(v. t.) To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out.

(n.) Devastation; waste.

(n.) Worry; harassment.

(n.) See /rass.

(n.) pl. of Teste, or of Testis.

(pl. ) of Testis

(n.) A testicle.

(n.) A genus of a large naked mollusks having a very large, broad, fringed cephalic disk, and branched dorsal gills. Some of the species become a foot long and are brilliantly colored.

(pl. ) of Fish

(pl. ) of Thank

(n. pl.) Twisted guts.

(n.) The goddess of law and order; the patroness of existing rights.

(pl. ) of Hindu

(n.) Floccillation.

(v. t.) To form, or mold, by striking or stamping, as a coin or medal.

(n.) A genus of small hemipterous insects which injure trees by sucking the sap from the leaves. See Illustration in Appendix.

(pl. ) of Youth

(pl. ) of Zany

(pl. ) of Zero

(pl. ) of Wolf

(n.) pl. of Wolf.

(n.) A concise or abridged statement or view; an abstract; a summary.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of the genus Pholas, or family Pholadidae. They bore holes for themselves in clay, peat, and soft rocks.

(pl. ) of Photo

(n.) One of the bishops of the Episcopal Church of Scotland, who presides at the meetings of the bishops, and has certain privileges but no metropolitan authority.

(pl. ) of Pomey

(pl. ) of Pons

(pl. ) of Pony

(n.) A pledge or pawn.

(n.) A kind of skull cap of felt.

(n.) The expanded upper portion of many of the fungi. See Mushroom.

(n.) The top of the head of a bird, from the bill to the nape.

(a.) See Pilose.

(n.) Full of pores; having interstices in the skin or in the substance of the body; having spiracles or passages for fluids; permeable by liquids; as, a porous skin; porous wood.

(pl. ) of Pinna

(n.) The prominence in front of the external opening of the ear. See Illust. under Ear.

(pl. ) of Truth

(pl. ) of Gonad

(n.) A genus of singing birds including the true thrushes.

(pl. ) of Turf

(n.) Turquois.

(n.) A dictionary of prosody, designed as an aid in writing Greek or Latin poetry.

(n. pl.) See 5th Grain, n., 2 (b).

(n.) Pigeon's dung used in tanning. See Grainer. n., 1.

(n.) A quicksand.

(adv.) For nothing; without fee or recompense; freely; gratuitously.

(n.) A muscle having two heads or origins; -- applied particularly to a flexor in the arm, and to another in the thigh.

(n. pl.) The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.

(n.) The god of the winds.

(n.pl.) Alt. of Hyads

(pl. ) of Hydra

(n.) A constellation of the southern hemisphere, near the south pole.

(pl. ) of Hyena

(v. t.) To free from bias or prejudice.

(a.) Hooklike; hooked.

(n.) The dried bodies of the females of a scale insect (Coccus ilicis), allied to the cochineal insect, and found on several species of oak near the Mediterranean. They are round, about the size of a pea, contain coloring matter analogous to carmine, and are used in dyeing. They were anciently thought to be of a vegetable nature, and were used in medicine.

(n.) A small European evergreen oak (Quercus coccifera) on which the kermes insect (Coccus ilicis) feeds.

(n. pl.) A mountain tribe of Mexican Indians living near Acapulco. They are remarkable for having the dark skin of the face irregularly spotted with white. Called also speckled Indians.

(n.) That branch of physical science which treats of the nature and properties of light, the laws of its modification by opaque and transparent bodies, and the phenomena of vision.

(n.) A chick; a young bird in the downy stage.

(n.) Drooping of the upper eyelid, produced by paralysis of its levator muscle.

(n.) The way in which a leaf is sometimes folded in the bud.

(n.) A genus of trees with perigynous rosaceous flowers, and a single two-ovuled carpel which usually becomes a drupe in ripening.

(n.) Use; practice; especially, exercise or discipline for a specific purpose or object.

(n.) An example or form of exercise, or a collection of such examples, for practice.

(pl. ) of Pound

(pl. ) of Pound

(pl. ) of Villa

(pl. ) of Posy

(n.) A lingerer; a dull, drowsy fellow.

(n.) A marquis.

(pl. ) of Maori

(n.) Any one of numerous species of voracious orthopterous insects of the genus Mantis, and allied genera. They are remarkable for their slender grotesque forms, and for holding their stout anterior legs in a manner suggesting hands folded in prayer. The common American species is M. Carolina.

(pl. ) of Lory

(n.) An old Anglo Saxon coin both of gold and silver, and of variously estimated values. The silver mancus was equal to about one shilling of modern English money.

(n. pl.) The catamenial or menstrual discharge, a periodic flow of blood or bloody fluid from the uterus or female generative organs.

(a.) Muddy; slimy; thick.

(n.) An extramundane region where certain classes of souls were supposed to await the judgment.

(n.) Hence: Any real or imaginary place of restraint or confinement; a prison; as, to put a man in limbo.

(n.) A border or margin; as, the limbus of the cornea.

(fem.) A Hebrew woman.

(pl. ) of Lily

(n. pl.) The lungs of an animal or bird; -- sometimes coarsely applied to the lungs of a human being.

(n.) See Logic.

(n.) The pelvic arch, or the pelvic arch together with the sacrum. See Pelvic arch, under Pelvic, and Sacrum.

(n.) The calyx of a crinoid.

(pl. ) of Thesis

(n.) A position or proposition which a person advances and offers to maintain, or which is actually maintained by argument.

(n.) Hence, an essay or dissertation written upon specific or definite theme; especially, an essay presented by a candidate for a diploma or degree.

(n.) An affirmation, or distinction from a supposition or hypothesis.

(n.) The accented part of the measure, expressed by the downward beat; -- the opposite of arsis.

(n.) The depression of the voice in pronouncing the syllables of a word.

(n.) The part of the foot upon which such a depression falls.

(n.) A disease of horses, characterized by difficult breathing, with heaving of the flank, wheezing, flatulency, and a peculiar cough; broken wind.

(pl. ) of Flatus

(n.) A breath; a puff of wind.

(n.) Wind or gas generated in the stomach or other cavities of the body.

(n.) Any one of numerous small species of Thysanoptera, especially those which attack useful plants, as the grain thrips (Thrips cerealium).

(adv.) In no manner or degree; not at all; nowise.

(a.) Annoying; disagreeable.

(n. pl.) One's birth, or the circumstances attending it.

(n.) A genus of endogenous plants growing in the North Temperate zone, and consisting of about eighty species. They are perennial herbs growing from a tuber (beside which is usually found the last year's tuber also), and are valued for their showy flowers. See Orchidaceous.

(n.) Any plant of the same family with the orchis; an orchid.

(pl. ) of Navvy

(pl. ) of Navy

(n. pl.) A sacrifice accompanied by certain ceremonies in honor of some pagan deity; especially, the ceremonies observed by the Greeks and Romans in the worship of Dionysus, or Bacchus, which were characterized by wild and dissolute revelry.

(n. pl.) Drunken revelry; a carouse.

(pl. ) of Orgy

(pl. ) of Junta

(n.) A mark [thus /, or Ö ]; -- so called as resembling a needle. In old MSS. or editions of the classics, it marks suspected passages or readings.

(n.) An extinct genus of Brachiopoda, abundant in the Paleozoic rocks.

(n.) A small silver coin of Athens, the sixth part of a drachma, about three cents in value.

(n.) An ancient weight, the sixth part of a drachm.

(pl. ) of Wharf

(conj.) Whereas; while

(n.) One of the minute papillary processes on certain vascular membranes; a villosity; as, villi cover the lining of the small intestines of many animals and serve to increase the absorbing surface.

(n.) Fine hairs on plants, resembling the pile of velvet.

(a.) Of or pertaining to wine; having the qualities of wine; as, a vinous taste.

(n.) Meanwhile; meantime.

(n.) sometimes; at times.

(conj.) During the time that; while.

(pl. ) of Lens

(n. pl.) Leucorrh/a.

(n. pl.) The finest flour made from white wheat.

(n. pl.) Cloth or garments of a plain white color.

(n.) One of the organs, as the brain, heart, or stomach, in the great cavities of the body of an animal; -- especially used in the plural, and applied to the organs contained in the abdomen.

(n.) The six-legged young, or larva, of certain mites; -- sometimes used as a generic name. See Harvest mite, under Harvest.

(v. t.) The leavings or dung of beasts.

(pl. ) of Vista

(n. pl.) Organs that are necessary for life; more especially, the heart, lungs, and brain.

(n. pl.) Fig.: The part essential to the life or health of anything; as, the vitals of a state.

(n. pl.) Provisions; victuals.

(pl. ) of Levy

(n.) A dyestuff extracted from certain lichens (Roccella tinctoria, Lecanora tartarea, etc.), as a blue amorphous mass which consists of a compound of the alkaline carbonates with certain coloring matters related to orcin and orcein.

(n.) A curved staff used by the augurs in quartering the heavens.

(n.) An instrument of martial music; a kind of trumpet of a somewhat curved form and shrill note.

(n.) A spiral whose polar equation is r2/ = a; that is, a curve the square of whose radius vector varies inversely as the angle which the radius vector makes with a given line.

(pl. ) of Llano

(pl. ) of Loaf

(n.) A genus of Carnivora including the foxes.

(pl. ) of Wady

(n.) pl. of Loaf.

(n. pl.) A tribe of southern Sioux Indians, now living in the Indian Territory.

(n.) One of the principal divinities of Egypt, the brother and husband of Isis. He was figured as a mummy wearing the royal cap of Upper Egypt, and was symbolized by the sacred bull, called Apis. Cf. Serapis.

(v. t.) To besiege; to beset.

(n.) That quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, esp., that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality; as, the pathos of a picture, of a poem, or of a cry.

(n.) A dialect peculiar to the illiterate classes; a provincial form of speech.

(n.) Inflammation of the ear.

(n.) An eye; (Bot.) a leaf bud.

(n.) A round window, usually a small one.

(a.) Hateful; deserving or receiving hatred; as, an odious name, system, vice.

(a.) Causing or provoking hatred, repugnance, or disgust; offensive; disagreeable; repulsive; as, an odious sight; an odious smell.

(pl. ) of Pease

(n.) The breast of a bird.

(pl. ) of Abbey

() At the door; of the door; as, out adoors.

(n. pl.) The entrails and coarser parts of a deer; hence, sometimes, entrails, in general.

(n.) A contagious continued fever lasting from two to three weeks, attended with great prostration and cerebral disorder, and marked by a copious eruption of red spots upon the body. Also called jail fever, famine fever, putrid fever, spottled fever, etc. See Jail fever, under Jail.

(n.) The first day of August; -- called also Lammas day, and Lammastide.

(n.) An inflammation and swelling of the soft parts of the roof of the mouth immediately behind the fore teeth in the horse; -- called also lampers.

(pl. ) of Lady

(n. pl.) Lips.

(n.) A genus of marine fishes, including the wrasses of Europe. See Wrasse.

(n.) Alt. of Lache

(n.) See Litmus.

(n.) See Koumiss.

() See Vetiver.

(n.) The triangular middle part of each segment of the shell of a barnacle.

(pl. ) of Plexus

(n.) A network of vessels, nerves, or fibers.

(n.) The system of equations required for the complete expression of the relations which exist between a set of quantities.

(n. pl.) A kind of small pinchers with long jaws, -- used for bending or cutting metal rods or wire, for handling small objects such as the parts of a watch, etc.

(n.) A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen.

(interj.) An exclamation formerly used as an oath, and an expression of anger or wonder.

(n.) A Moorish dance, usually performed by a single dancer, who accompanies the dance with castanets.

(n.) A dance formerly common in England, often performed in pagenats, processions, and May games. The dancers, grotesquely dressed and ornamented, took the parts of Robin Hood, Maidmarian, and other fictious characters.

(n.) An old game played with counters, or men, which are placed angles of a figure drawn on a board or on the ground; also, the board or ground on which the game is played.

(n.) A marine fish having a very slender, flat, transparent body. It is now generally believed to be the young of the conger eel or some allied fish.

(n.) A genus of raptorial birds, including the European kite.

(pl. ) of Mouth

(pl. ) of Jugum

(pl. ) of July

(n.) A long and open portico, for athletic exercises, as wrestling, running, etc., for use in winter or in stormy weather.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, mucus; slimy, ropy, or stringy, and lubricous; as, a mucous substance.

(a.) Secreting a slimy or mucigenous substance; as, the mucous membrane.

(pl. ) of Mufti

(pl. ) of Miss

(n.) A mistress; a wife; -- so used by the illiterate.

(n.) A Nereid. See Nereid.

(n.) A genus, including numerous species, of marine chaetopod annelids, having a well-formed head, with two pairs of eyes, antennae, four pairs of tentacles, and a protrusile pharynx, armed with a pair of hooked jaws.

(n.) A feeler; especially, one of the jointed sense organs attached to the mouth organs of insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and annelids; as, the mandibular palpi, maxillary palpi, and labial palpi. The palpi of male spiders serve as sexual organs. Called also palp. See Illust. of Arthrogastra and Orthoptera.

(n. pl.) The twelfth sign of the zodiac, marked / in almanacs.

(n. pl.) A zodiacal constellation, including the first point of Aries, which is the vernal equinoctial point; the Fish.

(n. pl.) The class of Vertebrata that includes the fishes. The principal divisions are Elasmobranchii, Ganoidei, and Teleostei.

(n.) A kind of coloring matter obtained from lichens.

(n.) The son of Jason and Ceres, and the god of wealth. He was represented as bearing a cornucopia, and as blind, because his gifts were bestowed without discrimination of merit.

(n.) Alt. of Parvise

(pl. ) of Jury

(pl. ) of Passus

(n.) A division or part; a canto; as, the passus of Piers Plowman. See 2d Fit.

(n. pl.) A tribe of Indians allied to the Winnebagoes and Osages. They formerly inhabited the region which is now the State of Kansas, but were removed to the Indian Territory.

(n.) An armed constable; also, a government servant or courier.

(n. pl.) A game; ninepins.

(n.) A lighthouse or beacon for the guidance of seamen.

(pl. ) of Phase

(pl. ) of Phasis

(n.) See Phase.

(pl. ) of Phiz

(n. pl.) Vast plains in the central and southern part of the Argentine Republic in South America. The term is sometimes used in a wider sense for the plains extending from Bolivia to Southern Patagonia.

(pl. ) of Pity

(pl. ) of Pixie

(n. pl.) of Knife. See Knife.

(pl. ) of Knife

(pl. ) of Lemma

(n.) Pallas Athene, the Grecian goddess of wisdom, called also Athene, and identified, at a later period, with the Roman Minerva.