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An order of marsipobranchs including the lampreys. The suckerlike moth contains numerous teeth; the nasal opening is in the middle of the head above, but it does not connect with the mouth. See Cyclostoma, and Lamprey.

An order of marsipobranchs, including the Myxine or hagfish and the genus Bdellostoma. They have barbels around the mouth, one tooth on the plate, and a communication between tionnasal aperture and the throat. See Hagfish. [Written also Hyperotreti.]

that; granting, allowing, or supposing that; -- introducing a condition or supposition. Tisiphone, that oft hast heard my prayer, Assist, if OEdipus deserve thy care. Pope. If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. Matt. iv. 3.

f North American Indians, which formerly occupied the region between the Wabash and Mississippi rivers.

The siphon of Cephalopoda. See Cephalopoda.

The liquid extract obtained by this process. Sips meek infusion of a milder herb. Cowper.

Tasteless; insipid. Sir T. Browne.

Insipid; dull; stupid. [Obs.] Milton.

Insipidity; stupidity; dullness. [Obs.] The insulsity of mortal tongues. Milton.

connected with natural reservoirs in hills or mountains by passages having the form of a siphon, the water beginning to flow when it has accumulated so as to fill the upper part of the siphon, and ceasing when, by running through it, it has fallen below the orifice of the upper part of the siphon in the reservoir.…

A sheath which surrounds the base of the lasso cells in the Siphonophora.

To talk idly; to prate; to babble; to chatter; to gossip. "Thou janglest as a jay." Chaucer.

or to protect a harbor; a mole; as, the Eads system of jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi River. Jetty ad (Naut.), a projecting part at the end of a wharf; the front of a wharf whose side forms one of the cheeks of a dock.

of treating disease by appropriate muscular movements; - - also termed kinesitherapy, kinesipathy, lingism, and the movement cure.

To prate; to gossip; to babble; to blab. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An eel-like marsipobranch of the genus Petromyzon, and allied genera. The lampreys have a round, sucking mouth, without jaws, but set with numerous minute teeth, and one to three larger teeth on the palate (see Illust. of Cyclostomi). There are seven small branchial openings on each side. [Written also lamper eel, lamp…

left him to his reflections; I leave my hearers to judge. I will leave you now to your gossiplike humor. Shak.

An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi; sometimes, the steep bank of a river. [U. S. ]

Sipping; touching lightly. [R.] Landor.

Any species of Siphonaria, a genus of limpet-shaped Pulmonifera, living between tides, on rocks.