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An order of curious parasitic worms found on crinoids. The body is short and disklike, with four pairs of suckers and five pairs of hook-bearing parapodia on the under side.

arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science; as, the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology.

Not possessing a mantle; -- said of certain gastropods.

Naked; having no floral envelope, neither calyx nor corolla.

A chronic infectious disease of cattle and man due to the presence of Actinomyces bovis. It causes local suppurating tumors, esp. about the jaw. Called also lumpy jaw or big jaw. -- Ac`ti*no*my*cot"ic (#), a.

Dissection of, or incision into, a gland or glands.

The division or defective coherence of an organ that is usually entire.

Adynamia. [R.] Morin.

The management of land; rural economy; agriculture.

used for various utensils; hence, a trumpet. [Obs.] Put to their mouths the sounding alchemy. Milton.

See Alchemic, Alchemist, Alchemistic, Alchemy.

Fertilization of the pistil of a plant by pollen from another of the same species; cross-fertilization.

A friend. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Wanting the spinal cord.

An almond.

Akin to, or derived from, the almond.

A salt amygdalic acid.

Of or pertaining to almonds; derived from amygdalin; as, amygdalic acid.

Almond-bearing.

A glucoside extracted from bitter almonds as a white, crystalline substance.