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A mucilagenous secretion of certain birds found as the characteristic ingredient of edible bird's-nests.

ape of the Body is exposed; hence, naked or uncovered. Exposed in cuerpo to their rage. Hudibras.

s; Who well it wards, and quitten cuff with cuff. Spenser. Many a bitter kick and cuff. Hudibras.

A small edible fish of the Atlantic coast (Ctenolabrus adspersus); -- called also chogset, burgall, blue perch, and bait stealer. [Written also conner.]

A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries. [Obs.] Hudibras.

The edible flower head of certain brassicaceous plants, as the broccoli and cauliflower. Broccoli should be cut while the curd, as the flowering mass is termed, is entire. R. Thompson. Cauliflowers should be cut for use while the head, or curd, is still close and compact. F. Burr.

e of being a cur; one who is currish. [Jocose] How durst he, I say, oppose thy curship! Hudibras.

A large, edible, marine fish (Brosmius brosme), allied to the cod, common on the northern coasts of Europe and America; -- called also tusk and torsk.

ving a roundish or ovate fruit the size of a small orange, containing a soft, yellowish, edible pulp. -- Custard coffin, pastry, or crust, which covers or coffins a custard [Obs.] Shak.

iculated suckers, by means of which it secures its prey. The name is sometimes applied to dibranchiate cephalopods generally.

Bear baiting with a dog. Hudibras.

jerking motion. he'd rather on a gibbet dangle Than miss his dear delight, to wrangle. Hudibras. From her lifted hand Dangled a length of ribbon. Tennyson. To dangle about or after, to hang upon importunately; to court the favor of; to beset. The Presbyterians, and other fanatics that dangle after them, are well incli…

A dark blue, edible berry with a white bloom, and its shrub (Gaylussacia frondosa) closely allied to the common huckleberry. The bush is also called blue tangle, and is found from New England to Kentucky, and southward.

A tropical aroid (of the genus Caladium, syn. Colocasia) having an edible farinaceous root. It is related to the taro and to the tanier, but is much superior to it in quality and is as easily cooked as the potato. It is a staple food plant of the tropics, being prepared like potatoes, and has been introduced into the S…

thers having ten arms or tentacles; -- called also Decapoda. [Written also Decacera.] See Dibranchiata.

A division of the dibranchiate cephalopods including the cuttlefishes and squids. See Decacera.

Destructive; poisonous. [Obs.] "Deletery medicines." Hudibras.

An edible European marine fish (Sparus dentex, or Dentex vulgaris) of the family Percidæ.

To lay, as a stake; to wager. [Obs.] Hudibras.

A group of nudibranch mollusks without special gills.