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A genus of spinose, plectognath fishes, having the teeth of each jaw united into a single beaklike plate. They are able to inflate the body by taking in air or water, and, hence, are called globefishes, swellfishes, etc. fishes, and sea hedgehogs.

The staff for holding a bunch of flax, tow, or wool, from which the thread is drawn in spinning by hand. I will the distaff hold; come thou and spin. Fairfax.

cell becomes gradually constricted by a furrow transverse to the long axis of the nuclear spindle, followed, on the completion of the division of the nucleus, by a separation of the cell contents into two masses, called the daughter cells. -- Long division (Math.), the process of division when the operations are mostl…

any fish of the genus Acanthurus; the surgeon fish; -- so called from a sharp lancetlike spine on each side of the tail. Also called barber fish. See Surgeon fish.

A small shark, of many species, of the genera Mustelus, Scyllium, Spinax, etc.

d elongating the sliver from the carding machine, by revolving rollers, to prepare it for spinning.

An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier.

Same as Drought. Sandys. Another ill accident is drouth at the spindling of corn. Bacon. One whose drouth [thirst], Yet scarce allayed, still eyes the current stream. Milton. In the dust and drouth of London life. Tennyson.

The tough, fibrous membrane, which lines the cavity of the skull and spinal column, and surrounds the brain and spinal cord; -- frequently abbreviated to dura.

A variety of the zinc spinel or gahnite.

tremata found in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea. They are toothless and covered with spines; -- called also porcupine ant-eater, and Australian ant-eater.

less spheroidal or disk-shaped, composed of many united plates, and covered with movable spines. See Spatangoid, Clypeastroid. [Written also Echinidea, and Echinoida.]

Set with small spines or prickles.

) produced in the muscles of the limbs, when a current of electricity is passed along the spinal cord or nerves.

A twist or spinning motion given to a ball in striking it that influences the direction it will take after touching a cushion or another ball. The King's, or Queen's, English. See under King.

One of the orders of Nemertina, characterized by the presence of a peculiar armature of spines or plates in the proboscis.

A genus of spiders, including the common garden spider (E. diadema). They spin geometrical webs. See Garden spider.

The epithelial lining of the ventricles of the brain and the canal of the spinal cord; endyma; ependymis.

r Absolute. -- Equation box, or Equational box, a system of differential gearing used in spinning machines for regulating the twist of the yarn. It resembles gearing used in equation clocks for showing apparent time. -- Equation of the center (Astron.), the difference between the place of a planet as supposed to move…

Conveying impressions from the surface of the body to the spinal cord; -- said of certain nerves. Opposed to exodic.