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Having the maxillo-palatine bones united; -- applied to a group of carinate birds (Desmognathæ), including various wading and swimming birds, as the ducks and herons, and also raptorial and other kinds.

A universal remedy; -- name formerly to a purgative electuary.

Relating to the correcting or straightening out of something; corrective.

wel sounds pronounced in one syllable; as, ou in out, oi in noise; -- called a proper diphthong.

Relating or belonging to a diphthong; having the nature of a diphthong. -- Diph*thon"gal*ly, adv.

To make into a diphthong; to pronounce as a diphthong.

See Diphthongization.

Of the nature of diphthong; diphthongal. H. Sweet.

The act of changing into a diphthong. H. Sweet.

To change into a diphthong, as by affixing another vowel to a simple vowel. "The diphthongized long vowels." H. Sweet.

To deprive of credit or authority; to discredit. [R.] W. Wotton.

A house for the reception of waste matter; a privy. [Obs.] 2 Kings x. 27.

Having the structure of the palate like that of the ostrich and emu.

he slender, hollow thread of a nettling cell or cnida. See Nettling cell. [Written also ecthoræum.]

A drawing of the body forward, in consequence of the spasmodic action of some of the muscles. Gross.

An internal process of the sternal plates in the thorax of insects.

An optical toy; a card on which confused or imperfect figures are drawn, but which form to the eye regular figures when the card is rapidly revolved. See Thaumatrope.

The granule within the nucleolus or entoblast of a nucleated cell. Agassiz.

See Endothorax.

A figure by which a speaker recalls a word or words, in order to substitute something else stronger or more significant; as, Most brave! Brave, did I say most heroic act!