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See Legislature, Portugal.

Belonging to, or like, the genus Coryphæna. See Dolphin.

A genus of small, hardy trees, including the hawthorn, much used for ornamental purposes.

The circle or compass of the arts and sciences (originally, of the seven so-called liberal arts and sciences); circle of human knowledge. Hence, a work containing, in alphabetical order, information in all departments of knowledge, or on a particular department or branch; as, a cyclopedia of the physical sciences, or o…

A genus of mollusks, including the cowries. See Cowrie.

Cunningly or ingeniously formed or working; skillful; artistic; ingenious. Our bodies decked in our dædalian arms. Chapman. The dædal hand of Nature. J. Philips. The doth the dædal earth throw forth to thee, Out of her fruitful, abundant flowers. Spenser.

Having a variously cut or incised margin; -- said of leaves.

See Demon, Demonic.

Dasypædic.

Those birds whose young are covered with down when hatched.

Pertaining to the Dasypædes; ptilopædic.

Pertaining to, or in relation with, both dermal and hæmal structures; as, the dermohæmal spines or ventral fin rays of fishes.

The separation or resolution of one syllable into two; -- the opposite of synæresis.

Caustic. [Obs.]

Day of wrath; -- the name and beginning of a famous mediæval Latin hymn on the Last Judgment.

An insectivorous plant. See Venus's flytrap.

Ancient heretics who held that Christ's body was merely a phantom or appearance.

A genus of liliaceous plants with woody stems and funnel-shaped flowers.

The actors in a drama or play.

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