(n. pl.) The inhabitants of the earth, living on different sides of the equator, whose shadows at noon are cast in opposite directions.

(pl. ) of Cicerone

(pl. ) of Cicisbeo

(n.) A game, somewhat resembling backgammon, originating in India.

(pl. ) of Pediculus

(n.) Long slender tubes made of a paste chiefly of wheat flour, and used as an article of food; Italian or Genoese paste.

(n.) A medley; something droll or extravagant.

(n.) A sort of droll or fool.

(n.) A finical person; a fop; -- applied especially to English fops of about 1775.

(n.) The designation of a body of Maryland soldiers in the Revolutionary War, distinguished by a rich uniform.

(n. pl.) An order of ganoid fishes of which Amia is the type. See Bowfin and Ganoidei.

(n. pl.) The division of fishes which includes the rays and skates.

(n.) An acute disease occurring in India, characterized by multiple inflammatory changes in the nerves, producing great muscular debility, a painful rigidity of the limbs, and cachexy.

(v. t.) An interwoven or latticed wall or inclosure; latticework, rails, or crossbars, as around the bar of a court of justice, between the chancel and the nave of a church, or in a window.

(v. t.) The interlacing osseous plates constituting the elastic porous tissue of certain parts of the bones, esp. in their articular extremities.

(pl. ) of Bandit

(n.) Any Brahman woman.

(n.) A plant of the Cabbage species (Brassica oleracea) of many varieties, resembling the cauliflower. The "curd," or flowering head, is the part used for food.

(n. pl.) A fabulous people reported by ancient writers to have heads.

(n. pl.) A Christian sect without a leader.

(n. pl.) Bishops and certain clergymen not under regular diocesan control.

(n. pl.) A class of levelers in the time of K. Henry I.

(n. pl.) An extensive division of ganoids, including the gar pike, bowfin, etc.; the bony ganoids. See Illustration in Appendix.

(n.) A kind of outer coat, or overcoat; -- said to be so named after a celebrated Italian family of professional dancers.

(pl. ) of Strategus

(n. pl.) An order of elasmobranchs including the sharks and rays; the Plagiostomi. Called also Selacha, Selache, and Selachoidei.

(pl. ) of Concetto

(n. pl.) An order of flying, drom/ognathous birds, including the tinamous of South America. See Tinamou.

(n.) A small, nocturnal, South American monkey (Nyctipthecus trivirgatus).

(pl. ) of Duumvir

(n.) The bearberry.

(n. pl.) One of the subclasses of fishes. They have an arterial cone and bulb, spiral intestinal valve, and the optic nerves united by a chiasma. Many of the species are covered with bony plates, or with ganoid scales; others have cycloid scales.

(v. t.) To intoxicate and ship (a person) as a sailor while in this condition.

(n.) A large and tall breed of domestic fowl.

(pl. ) of Funiculus

(pl. ) of Ginglymus

(pl. ) of Gladiolus

(n.) The triad, or trinity, of Hindu gods, consisting of Brahma, the Creator, Vishnu, the Preserver, and Siva, the Destroyer.

(n. pl.) A division of birds comprising the humming birds.

(pl. ) of Trochilus

(n.) Literally, God's house; a temple, usually of pyramidal form, such as were built by the aborigines of Mexico, Yucatan, etc.

(pl. ) of Pulvillus

(n. pl.) Inscriptions, figure drawings, etc., found on the walls of ancient sepulchers or ruins, as in the Catacombs, or at Pompeii.

(n. pl.) The order of birds which comprises the parrots.

(n.) A small copper coin of Spain, equal to three mils American money, less than a farthing sterling. Also, an ancient Spanish gold coin.

(pl. ) of Malleolus

(pl. ) of Thesaurus

(pl. ) of Flocculus

(n.) See Hara-kiri.

(pl. ) of Nucleolus

(pl. ) of Lemniscus

(pl. ) of Virtuoso

(pl. ) of Libretto

(n. pl.) Learned or literary men. See Literatus.

(pl. ) of Literatus

(pl. ) of Lienculus

(n.) See Wistit.

(n. pl.) Alt. of Perioecians

(n.) See Pachisi.

(n. pl.) Those who live within a polar circle, whose shadows, during some summer days, will move entirely round, falling toward every point of the compass.

(n.) A variety of the game of poker in which the joker is used, and called mistigris or mistigri.

(n.) Alt. of Kiwikiwi

(n.) Any species of Apteryx, esp. A. australis; -- so called in imitation of its notes. Called also kiwi. See Apteryx.