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ve no large claws. The fresh-water crayfishes are sometimes called lobsters. Lobster caterpillar (Zoöl.), the caterpillar of a European bombycid moth (Stauropus fagi); -- so called from its form. Lobster louse (Zoöl.), a copepod crustacean (Nicothoë astaci) parasitic on the gills of the European lobster.…

many species of small parrots of the family Trichoglossidæ, generally having the tongue papillose at the tip, and the mandibles straighter and less toothed than in common parrots. They are found in the East Indies, Australia, New Guinea, and the adjacent islands. They feed mostly on soft fruits and on the honey of flow…

ach wing has a lunate spot surrounded by rings of light yellow, blue, and black. The caterpillar commonly feeds on the hickory, sassafras, and maple.

as from ingredients or parts; to shape, prepare, or fabricate; as, to make up a mass into pills; to make up a story. He was all made up of love and charms! Addison.

oftening by mixing with a thinner substance; the formation of ingredients into a mass for pills or plasters. [R.]

A rover in quest of booty or plunder; a plunderer; one who pillages. De Quincey.

inal substance made into a cohesive, homogeneous lump, of consistency suitable for making pills; as, blue mass.

A mast may also consist of several pieces of timber united by iron bands, or of a hollow pillar of iron or steel. The tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral. Milton.

A sulphide of nickel, commonly occurring in delicate capillary crystals, also in incrustations of a bronze yellow; -- sometimes called hair pyrites.

A single stone, especially one of large size, shaped into a pillar, statue, or monument.

A building, pillar, stone, or the like, erected to preserve the remembrance of a person, event, action, etc.; as, the Washington monument; the Bunker Hill monument. Also, a tomb, with memorial inscriptions. On your family's old monument Hang mournful epitaphs, and do all rites That appertain unto a burial. Shak.…

tumors, i. e., those consisting mainly of blood vessels, as dilated arteries, veins, or capillaries.

ral species of bombycid moths belonging to Notodonta, Nerice, and allied genera. The caterpillar of these moths has a hump, or spine, on its back.

An upright, four-sided pillar, gradually tapering as it rises, and terminating in a pyramid called pyramidion. It is ordinarily monolithic. Egyptian obelisks are commonly covered with hieroglyphic writing from top to bottom.

A genus of bombycid moths whose caterpillars (esp. those of Orgyia leucostigma) are often very injurious to fruit trees and shade trees. The female is wingless. Called also vaporer moth.

opagated by animal parents, to wit, butterflies, after the common origination of all caterpillars. Ray.

Adhering closely; embracing; -- applied to certain creeping animals, as caterpillars.

To surpass in preaching. And for a villain's quick conversion A pillory can outpreach a parson. Trumbull.

In the United States, Seiurus aurocapillus; -- called also golden-crowned thrush.

An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.