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g yellow and black hairs. They usually pupate in July and the moth appears in August. The eggs are laid on tree trunks, rocks, etc., and hatch in the spring.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the halcyon, which was anciently said to lay her eggs in nests on or near the sea during the calm weather about the winter solstice.

Imperfectly hatched; as, half-hatched eggs. Gay.

A male fallow deer gelded. Pegge (1814).

The feast of All Saints, or Allhallows. To speak puling, like a beggar at Hallowmas. Shak.

paque white rings which are seen outside the blastoderm, on the surface of the developing egg of the hen and other birds.

To produce, as young, from an egg or eggs by incubation, or by artificial heat; to produce young from (eggs); as, the young when hatched. Paley. As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not. Jer. xvii. 11. For the hens do not sit upon the eggs; but by keeping them in a certain equal heat they [the husbandmen…

phalopods, which is specially modified in various ways to effect the fertilization of the eggs. In a special sense, the greatly modified arm of Argonauta and allied genera, which, after receiving the spermatophores, becomes detached from the male, and attaches itself to the female for reproductive purposes.…

The true, or six-legged, insects; insects other than myriapods and arachnids.

who spends his life traveling from place to place, esp. by stealing rides on trains, and begging for a living. [U. S.] -- Ho"bo*ism (#), n.

A sauce consisting essentially of a seasoned emulsion of butter and yolk of eggs with a little lemon juice or vinegar.

of hexagonal waxen cells, formed by bees, and used by them to hold their honey and their eggs.

To cover with icing, or frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg; to frost, as cakes, tarts, etc.

n species(H. ichneumon), which ranges to Spain and Palestine, is noted for destroying the eggs and young of the crocodile as well as various snakes and lizards, and hence was considered sacred by the ancient Egyptians. The common species of India (H. griseus), known as the mongoose, has similar habits and is often dome…

A substance from the egg yolk of osseous fishes.

A nitrogenous substance resembling vitellin, present in the egg yolk of cartilaginous fishes.

A substance from the yolk of salmon's egg.

A coating or covering resembling ice, as of sugar and milk or white of egg; frosting.

rance; foolish; silly. His shipping, Poor ignorant baubles! -- on our terrible seas, Like eggshells moved. Shak.

oöl.), masses of hypodermic cells, carried by the larvæ of some insects after leaving the egg, from which masses the wings and legs of the adult are subsequently formed.