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The manufacture of slops, or cheap ready-made clothing; also, such clothing; hence, hasty, slovenly work of any kind. No slopwork ever dropped from his [Carlyle's] pen. Froude.

Sloping; inclined.

The operation for restoring or replacing the soft palate when it has been lost. Dunglison. -- Staph`y*lo*plas"tic, a.

An expansion at the base of the style, as in umbelliferous plants.

A genus of minute insects parasitic, in their larval state, on bees and wasps. It is the typical genus of the group Strepsiptera, formerly considered a distinct order, but now generally referred to the Coleoptera. See Strepsiptera.

h asexual and sexual reproduction, often of a complex type, occur in these forms. The Thallophyta exist almost exclusively as gametophytes, the sporophyte being absent or rudimentary. By those who do not separate the Myxophyta from the Tallophyta as a distinct phylum the latter is treated as the lowermost group in the…

Same as Thallogen.

A stroller; a loiterer; esp., an idle, untidy woman; a slattern; a slut; a whore.

A kind of loose dress for women. [Obs.] Goldsmith.

A tribe of ungulates comprising the camels.

To move quickly, but with great effort; to gallop. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

See Water buck.

A genus of marine bivalves which bore holes in wood. They are allied to Pholas.

Any species of Xylophaga.

A tribe or family of dipterous flies whose larvæ live in decayed wood. Some of the tropical species are very large.

Of or pertaining to the genus Xylophaga.

One of a tribe of beetles (Xylophili) whose larvæ live on decayed wood.

Of or pertaining to the xylophilans.

An instrument common among the Russians, Poles, and Tartars, consisting of a series of strips of wood or glass graduated in length to the musical scale, resting on belts of straw, and struck with two small hammers. Called in Germany strohfiedel, or straw fiddle.

Formed of wood pulp by molds; relating to casts made of wood pulp in molds.