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Having a hoodlike crest on the head, as certain birds, mammals, and reptiles.

A colorless, inflammable, poisonous gas, C2N2, with a peach- blossom odor, so called from its tendency to form blue compounds; obtained by heating ammonium oxalate, mercuric cyanide, etc. It is obtained in combination, forming an alkaline cyanide when nitrogen or a nitrogenous compound is strongly ignited with carbon a…

Any disease of the tonsils, throat, or windpipe, attended with inflammation, swelling, and difficulty of breathing and swallowing.

Inflammation of the bladder.

An inflammatory affection of the fingers. Gross.

A small herbivorous mammal of the genus Hyrax. The species found in Palestine and Syria is Hyrax Syriacus; that of Northern Africa is H. Brucei; -- called also ashkoko, dassy, and rock rabbit. See Cony, and Hyrax.

See Dammar.

abrupt change in its construction, a long or significant pause, or an unexpected or epigrammatic turn of sentiment. Dashes are also sometimes used instead of marks or parenthesis. John Wilson.

A group of Mammalia in which a decidua is thrown off with, or after, the fetus, as in the human species.

Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases.

To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of; as, to decline a noun or an adjective.

ors or fluid matter, as from the nose in catarrh; -- sometimes used synonymously with inflammation. Dunglison.

The sudden disappearance of inflammation.

g apparatus to a three-phase circuit, the three corners of the delta or triangle, as diagrammatically represented, being connected to the three wires of the supply circuit.

An East Indian carnivorous mammal (Prionodon gracilis), resembling the civets, but without scent pouches. It is handsomely spotted.

(Zoöl.), a brief notation used by zoölogists to denote the number and kind of teeth of a mammal. -- Dental surgeon, a dentist.

To deprive of phlogiston, or the supposed principle of inflammability. Priestley. Dephlogisticated air, oxygen gas; -- so called by Dr. Priestly and others of his time. -- De`phlo*gis`ti*ca"tion, n.

The act of tracing origin or descent, as in grammar or genealogy; as, the derivation of a word from an Aryan root.

Inflammation of the skin.

A group of lemuroid mammals having a parachutelike web of skin between the fore and hind legs, of which the colugo (Galeopithecus) is the type. See Colugo.