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Having twisted nostrils; -- said of the lemurs. -- n. (Zoöl.)

Exertion or contention for superiority; contest of emulation, either by intellectual or physical efforts. Doting about questions and strifes of words. 1 Tim. vi. 4. Thus gods contended -- noble strife -Who most should ease the wants of life. Congreve.

In a wider sense, an extensive group of birds including the ostriches, cassowaries, emus, moas, and allied birds incapable of flight. In this sense it is equivalent to Ratitæ, or Dromæognathæ.

juicy leaves or stems, as the houseleek, the live forever, and the species of Mesembryanthemum.

Characterized by a shaking motion, especially an up and down movement, and not merely tremulous oscillation; as, the succussive motion in earthquakes.

ice; a sweet singer. To make his English sweet upon his tongue. Chaucer. A voice sweet, tremulous, but powerful. Hawthorne.

A ferment resembling diastase, found in bitter almonds. Cf. Amygdalin, and Emulsin.

hat grows among wheat and other grain; -- alleged by modern naturalists to be the Lolium temulentum, or darnel. Didst not thou sow good seed in thy field From whence then hath it tares Matt. xiii. 27. The "darnel" is said to be the tares of Scripture, and is the only deleterious species belonging to the whole order. Ba…

A genus of nocturnal lemurine mammals having very large eyes and ears, a long tail, and very long proximal tarsal bones; -- called also malmag, spectral lemur, podji, and tarsier.

The proximal segment of the hind limb between the knee and the trunk. See Femur.

Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Polynemus and allied genera. They have numerous long pectoral filaments.

A sensation as of being thrilled; a tremulous excitement; as, a thrill of horror; a thrill of joy. Burns.

Causing a thrill; causing tremulous excitement; deeply moving; as, a thrilling romance. -- Thrill"ing*ly, adv. -- Thrill"ing*ness, n.

The large bone between the femur and tarsometatarsus in the leg of a bird. It is formed by the union of the proximal part of the tarsus with the tibia.

To quaver or shake, as sound; to be tremulous; as the voice trembles.

The rapid reiteration of tones without any apparent cessation, so as to produce a tremulous effect.

To utter trills or a trill; to play or sing in tremulous vibrations of sound; to have a trembling sound; to quaver. To judge of trilling notes and tripping feet. Dryden.

One of two processes near the head of the femur, the outer being called the great trochanter, and the inner the small trochanter.

A plant of the genus Hypericum (H. Androsoemum), from which a healing ointment is prepared in Spain; -- called also parkleaves.

To make a succession of small, tremulous, intermitted noises. The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed. Gray.