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Pertaining to both tongue and epiglottis; as, glossoepiglottic folds.

Yellow. [Obs.] Tusser.

A white tropical tern (Cygis candida).

A complex mixture of several substances extracted from Irish moss.

p. p. of Go. [Obs.]

One who, or that which, goes; a runner or walker; as:

Invocation of evil spirits; witchcraft. [Obs.] Hallywell.

A galoche.

A contagious inflammatory disease of the genitourinary tract, affecting especially the urethra and vagina, and characterized by a mucopurulent discharge, pain in urination, and chordee; clap.

Of or pertaining to gonorrhea; as, gonorrheal rheumatism.

A hydrous oxide of iron, occurring in prismatic crystals, also massive, with a fibrous, reniform, or stalactitic structure. The color varies from yellowish to blackish brown.

A short jacket or cloak, made of very thick, coarse cloth, with a hood attached, worn by the Greeks and others in the Levant. [Written also griego.]

Dioecious, but having some hermaphrodite or perfect flowers on an individual plant which bears mostly pistillate flowers.

The pistils of a flower, taken collectively. See Illust. of Carpophore.

A parasite inhabiting the blood; esp.:

Surrounded with a halo; invested with an ideal glory; glorified. Some haloed face bending over me. C. Bronté.

A heroine. [Obs.] Dryden.

One who treats of heroes. [R.] T. Warton.

Passing through the different stages in its life history on an alternation of hosts, as the common wheat-rust fungus (Puccinia graminis), and certain other parasitic fungi; -- contrasted with autocious. -- Het`er*o"cism (#), n.

The European green woodpecker or yaffle. [Written also high- hoo.]