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See Press gang, under Press.

The college of the Propaganda, instituted by Urban VIII. (1623- 1644) to educate priests for missions in all parts of the world.

The art or practice of propagating tenets or principles; zeal in propagating one's opinions.

A person who devotes himself to the spread of any system of principles. "Political propagandists." Walsh.

An organism whose nature is so difficult to determine that it might be referred to either the animal or the vegetable kingdom.

Any grouse of the genus Lagopus, of which numerous species are known. The feet are completely feathered. Most of the species are brown in summer, but turn white, or nearly white, in winter.

The act of reorganizing; a reorganized existence; as, reorganization of the troops.

To organize again or anew; as, to reorganize a society or an army.

To paganize anew; to bring back to paganism.

Prodicing roots.

A ganoid fish having rhombic enameled scales; one of the Rhomboganoidei.

Same as Ginglymodi.

[So named from its first describer, J. C. Rosenmüller, a German anatomist.] (Anat.) The parovarium.

The esculent swallow. See under Esculent.

The salagane.

One of a tribe of beetles which feed upon dacaying animal and vegetable substances; a carrion beetle.

Any animal which eats flesh, especially any carnivorous marsupial.

Breaking or destroying stones; saxifragous. [R.] -- n.

Half pagan.

The war cry, or gathering word, of a Highland clan in Scotland; hence, any rallying cry. Sir W. Scott.