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A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth.

Crushing sorrow or grief; a yielding to such grief. Shak.

Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.

A digestive gland in Crustacea, Mollusca, etc., usually called the liver, but different from the liver of vertebrates.

y for another. [Obs.] "We rest your hermits." Shak. Hermit crab (Zoöl.), a marine decapod crustacean of the family Paguridæ. The species are numerous, and belong to many genera. Called also soldier crab. The hermit crabs usually occupy the dead shells of various univalve mollusks. See Illust. of Commensal. -- Hermit t…

A genus of marine decapod crustaceans, which burrow rapidly in the sand by pushing themselves backward; -- called also bait bug. See Illust. under Anomura.

A division of phyllopod Crustacea, including those that are entirely covered by a bivalve shell.

scension day. (b) (R. C. Ch.) The Thursday in Holy Week; Maundy Thursday. -- Holy war, a crusade; an expedition carried on by Christians against the Saracens in the Holy Land, in the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries, for the possession of the holy places. -- Holy water (Gr. & R. C. Churches), water which h…

A genus of decapod Crustacea, including the common lobsters. -- Hom"a*roid, a.

s, with some phosphate of lime; also, any similar substance, as that which forms the hoof crust of horses, sheep, and cattle; as, a spoon of horn.

ed waters in dissolving, redepositing, and otherwise producing mineral changes within the crust of the globe.

The lower lip of trilobites, crustaceans, etc.

A division of copepod crustaceans, including numerous species parasitic on fishes.

A thin crust of some extraneous substance formed on minerals. [R.] A thin crust or illinition of black manganese. Kirwan.

the mind to a matter; heedless; careless; negligent; inattentive. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path. Cowper. -- In`ad*vert"ent*ly, adv.

ng on others; not subordinate; as, few men are wholly independent. A dry, but independent crust. Cowper.

natural heat and excitement of arterial action; as, an inflammatory disease. Inflammatory crust. (Med.) Same as Buffy coat, under Buffy. -- Inflammatory fever, a variety of fever due to inflammation.

Any small crustacean. In a wider sense, the word is often loosely applied to various small invertebrates.

Between the epimeral plates of insects and crustaceans.

Between the sternal; -- said of certain membranes or parts of insects and crustaceans.