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A small apartment next a hall, where certain persons were accustomed to dine; a sort of recess. [Obs.] Cowell.

A polystome worm (Palolo viridis) that burrows in the coral reefs of certain of the Pacific Islands. A little before the last quarter of the moon in October and November, they swarm in vast numbers at the surface of the sea for breeding, and are gathered and highly esteemed as food by the natives. An allied species inh…

One of the two lobes which form the lower lip, or metastome, of Crustacea.

To make up into a parcel; as, to parcel a customer's purchases; the machine parcels yarn, wool, etc. To parcel a rope (Naut.), to wind strips of tarred canvas tightly arround it. Totten. -- To parcel a seam (Naut.), to cover it with a strip of tarred canvas.

A large flat-bottomed trading boat peculiar to the river Ganges; -- called also puteli.

To trade with customarily; to frequent as a customer. [Commercial Cant]

To sell from place to place; to retail by carrying around from customer to customer; to hawk; hence, to retail in very small quantities; as, to peddle vegetables or tinware.

Accustomed to, or employed in, desperate enterprises; hence, reckless; hopeless. "A perdue captain." Beau. & Fl.

One who, or that which, perforates; esp., a cephalotome.

Same as Peristome.

Of or pertaining to a peristome.

Same as Peristome.

A combining form from Gr. fw^s, fwto`s, light; as, photography, phototype, photometer.

To engrave by a photomechanical process; to make a photo- engraving of. -- Pho`to-en*grav"er (#), n.

To engrave, or make an engraving of, by any photomechanical process involving etching of the plate.

A colored print made photomechanically.

Any print made by a photomechanical process.

Designating a photomechanical process for making reproductions in natural colors by three printings.

ntacles are arranged on a horseshoe-shaped lophophore, and the mouth is covered by an epistome. Called also Lophopoda, and hippocrepians.

A phyllostome.