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The hard integument of Crustacea.

l occurring in orthorhombic crystals. It is a hydrous arseniate of iron. [Written also skorodite.]

A young codfish, especially when cut open on the back and dressed. [Written also escrod.] [Local, U.S.]

Mottled pottery made from scraps of differently colored clays.

See Scorodite.

A salmon in its second year. [Prov. Eng.]

See Strude. [Obs.]

Synarthrosis. -- Syn`ar*thro"di*al, a. Dunglison.

A rod carrying a tappet or tappets, as one for closing the valves in a Cornish pumping engine.

Any one of numerous species of plectognath fishes belonging to Tetrodon and allied genera. Each jaw is furnished with two large, thick, beaklike, bony teeth. [Written also tetradon.]

Of or pertaining to the tetrodons. -- n.

To grow; to thrive. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.

Swung by the tide when at anchor; -- opposed to wind-rode.

A rod used as a tie. See Tie.

imp. & p. p. of Tread.

p. p. of Tread.

imp. of Tread. On burnished hooves his war-horse trode. Tennyson.

The production of less than is demanded or of less than the usual supply. F. A. Walker.

An order of amphibians having the tail well developed and often long. It comprises the salamanders, tritons, and allied animals.

One of the Urodela.