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Having a bill shaped like the colter of a plow, or like a knife, as the heron, stork, etc.

A tribe of wading birds including the stork, heron, crane, etc.

A form of cloud. See Cloud.

Having bent ribs.

Having a crooked beak, as the crossbill.

A group of passerine birds, including the creepers and nuthatches.

A division of Bryozoa, in which the cells have circular apertures.

Pertaining to the Cyclostomi.

A glass of fishes having a suckerlike mouth, without jaws, as the lamprey; the Marsipobranchii.

Relating to a structure composed of a circular range of columns, without a core or building within. Weale.

A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred with an inked roller.

A circular projecting portion.

Pertaining to, or in the style of, Demosthenes, the Grecian orator.

A dentirostral bird.

Having a toothed bill; -- applied to a group of passerine birds, having the bill notched, and feeding chiefly on insects, as the shrikes and vireos. See Illust. (N) under Beak.

Dentirostral.

Fully prostrate; humble; low; rude. [Obs.] How may weak mortal ever hope to file His unsmooth tongue, and his deprostrate style. G. Fletcher.

Ossification of the dermis.

Pertaining to, or furnishing, a diagnosis; indicating the nature of a disease.

To make a diagnosis of; to recognize by its symptoms, as a disease.