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A name given in Western South America to certain plants with shaggy tomentose leaves, as species of Culcitium, and Espeletia.

an instrument for measuring the intensity of light; a photometer.

A flat-bottomed boat with a pointed prow and square stern, using oars or sails or both, used esp. on the upper Great Lakes and their tributaries.

th magnitude or lower. The scale of the magnitudes is quite arbitrary, but by means of photometers, the classification has been made to tenths of a magnitude.

A round-bottomed glass flask having a long neck; a bolthead.

A combining form meaning part, portion; as, blastomere, epimere.

tle world; a miniature universe. Hence (so called by Paracelsus), a man, as a supposed epitome of the exterior universe or great world. Opposed to macrocosm. Shak.

One of the smaller cells, or blastomeres, resulting from the complete segmentation of a telolecithal ovum.

Of or pert. to the microtome or microtomy; cutting thin slices.

The art of using the microtome; investigation carried on with the microtome.

A man who sells milk or delivers is to customers.

kind, especially such as please the fancy of women. [Obs.] No milliner can so fit his customers with gloves. Shak.

A mocking bird. Mocker nut (Bot.), a kind of hickory (Carya tomentosa) and its fruit, which is far inferior to the true shagbark hickory nut.

The sphere or globular mass of cells (blastomeres), formed by the clevage of the ovum or egg in the first stages of its development; -- called also mulberry mass, segmentation sphere, and blastosphere. See Segmentation.

A gap or hole in a hedge, hence, wall, or the like, through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset. Find a hare without a muse. Old Prov.

A myotome.

Of or pertaining to a myotome or myotomes.

-- an expression probably derived from the former practice of shopkeepers, who were accustomed to nail bad or counterfeit pieces of money to the counter.

Not habituated; not familiar; unaccustomed. New to the plow, unpracticed in the trace. Pope.

amount of nitrogen or some of its compounds in any substance subjected to analysis; an azotometer.