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A small, burrowing, South American edentate (Chlamyphorus truncatus), allied to the armadillos. The shell is attached only along the back. [Written also pichyciego.]

Fond of flogging; as, a plagose master. [R.]

Same as Graphite.

Eating, or subsisting on, many kinds of food; as, polyphagous animals.

A nitrogenous phosphorized principle found in brain tissue. By decomposition it yields neurine, fatty acids, and other bodies.

o takes lead in some great scene, enterprise, conflict, or the like. Shakespeare, the protagonist on the great of modern poetry. De Quincey.

Attractive; persuasive. J. Morley.

A necromancer. [R.]

A medicine that promotes the discharge of saliva.

a deputy of a State at the Amphictyonic council.

Of or pertaining to Pythagoras (a Greek philosopher, born about 582 b. c.), or his philosophy. The central thought of the Pythagorean philosophy is the idea of number, the recognition of the numerical and mathematical relations of things. Encyc. Brit. Pythagorean proposition (Geom.), the theorem that the square describ…

The doctrines of Pythagoras or the Pythagoreans. As a philosophic school Pythagoreanism became extinct in Greece about the middle of the 4th century [B. C.]. Encyc. Brit.

See Pythagorean, a.

The doctrines taught by Pythagoras.

To speculate after the manner of Pythagoras.

A plane figure with fifteen angles, and consequently fifteen sides.

A dish made of pieces of meat, stewed, and highly seasoned; as, a ragout of mutton.

Feeding on roots; root-eating.

One of the four pursuivants of the English college of arms.

Eating, or subsisting on, filth.