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To deceive, or get the better of, by artifice or cunning; to outwit; to cheat. Shak.

during the last century, that the egg was the real animal germ, and that at the time of fecundation the spermatozoa simply gave the impetus which caused the unfolding of the egg, in which all generations were inclosed one within the other. Also called ovist.

Arch; cunning; sly. [Scot.] Jamieson.

Destitute of money; impecunious; poor. -- Pen"ni*less*ness, n.

. Black perch. (a) The black bass. (b) The flasher. (c) The sea bass. -- Blue perch, the cunner. -- Gray perch, the fresh-water drum. -- Red perch, the rosefish. -- Red-bellied perch, the long-eared pondfish. -- Perch pest, a small crustacean, parasitic in the mouth of the perch. -- Silver perch, the yellowtail.…

over; braided; figuratively, involved; intricate; artful. Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides. Shak.

One who plays on an instrument of music. "A cunning player on a harp." 1 Sam. xvi. 16.

er than on principles of equity or honor; hence, worldly wisdom; dexterity of management; cunning; stratagem.

nce, in a good sense, wise; prudent; sagacious; and in a bad sense, artful; unscrupulous; cunning; -- said of persons. Politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy. Shak.

Cunning; using artifice; politic; artful. "Ill-meaning politician lords." Milton.

The fecundating dustlike cells of the anthers of flowers. See Flower, and Illust. of Filament. Pollen grain (Bot.), a particle or call of pollen. -- Pollen mass, a pollinium. Gray. -- Pollen sac, a compartment of an anther containing pollen, -- usually there are four in each anther. -- Pollen tube, a slender tube wh…

Made or done after the date assigned. Of these [predictions] some were postdate; cunningly made after the thing came to pass. Fuller.

Artful; deceitful; skillful. [Obs.] "Cunning sleights and practick knavery." Spenser.

nditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or occupation; emolument; as, a profit on the sale of goods. Let no man anticipate uncertain profits. Rambler.

om, or dictated or characterized by, prudence; prudent; discreet; sometimes, selfish or pecuniary as distinguished from higher motives or influences; as, prudential motives. " A prudential line of conduct." Sir W. Scott.

One of the carpal bones. See Cuneiform, n., 2 (b).

Craft; subtlety; cunning. [Obs.] Chaucer. R. of Glouces.

for information or a quarantes of any kind, as in respect to one's integrity, capacity, pecuniary ability, and the like; as, I referred to his employer for the truth of his story.

to excess; an affected subtilty; as, refinements of logic. "The refinements of irregular cunning." Rogers.

ine to accept; to reject; to deny the request or petition of; as, to refuse a suitor. The cunning workman never doth refuse The meanest tool that he may chance to use. Herbert.