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Rump
n.
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The hind or tail end; a fag-end; a remnant.
Upbreak
v. i.
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To break upwards; to force away or passage to the surface.
Corrigenda
pl.
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of Corrigendum
Throw
v. t.
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To divest or strip one's self of; to put off.
Swineery
n.
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Same as Piggery.
Thermogenic
a.
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Relating to heat, or to the production of heat; producing heat; thermogenous; as, the thermogenic tissues.
Scalene
a.
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Designating several triangular muscles called scalene muscles.
Dorsiferous
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Bearing, or producing, on the back; -- applied to ferns which produce seeds on the back of the leaf, and to certain Batrachia, the ova of which become attached to the skin of the back of the parent, where they develop; dorsiparous.
Estate
n.
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The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs.
Suffruticose
a.
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Woody in the lower part of the stem, but with the yearly branches herbaceous, as sage, thyme, hyssop, and the like.
Disorder
v. t.
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To depose from holy orders.
Basined
a.
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Inclosed in a basin.
Doth
3d pers. sing. pres.
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of Do.
Plume
v.
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A large and flexible panicle of inflorescence resembling a feather, such as is seen in certain large ornamental grasses.
Pleurocentrum
n.
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One of the lateral elements in the centra of the vertebrae in some fossil batrachians.
Consolidated
p. p. & a.
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Having a small surface in proportion to bulk, as in the cactus.
Windhover
n.
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The kestrel; -- called also windbibber, windcuffer, windfanner.
Helicin
n.
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A glucoside obtained as a white crystalline substance by partial oxidation of salicin, from a willow (Salix Helix of Linnaeus.)
Tyrian
n.
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A native of Tyre.
Strophulus
n.
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See Red-gum, 1.
Vaivode
n.
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See Waywode.
Ornitholite
n.
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A stone of various colors bearing the figures of birds.
Snob
n.
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A workman who accepts lower than the usual wages, or who refuses to strike when his fellows do; a rat; a knobstick.
Ornithosauria
n. pl.
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An order of extinct flying reptiles; -- called also Pterosauria.
Aspection
n.
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The act of viewing; a look.
Hodograph
n.
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A curve described by the moving extremity of a line the other end of which is fixed, this line being constantly parallel to the direction of motion of, and having its length constantly proportional to the velocity of, a point moving in any path; -used in investigations respecting central forces.
Fourth
a.
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Forming one of four equal parts into which anything may be divided.
Father
v. t.
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To take as one's own child; to adopt; hence, to assume as one's own work; to acknowledge one's self author of or responsible for (a statement, policy, etc.).
Wing
n.
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Passage by flying; flight; as, to take wing.
Plethysmograph
n.
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An instrument for determining and registering the variations in the size or volume of a limb, as the arm or leg, and hence the variations in the amount of blood in the limb.