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An intercepting mound, erected in any part of a fortification to protect the defenders from a rear or ricochet fire; a traverse. Farrow.

enet or proposition contrary to received opinion; an assertion or sentiment seemingly contradictory, or opposed to common sense; that which in appearance or terms is absurd, but yet may be true in fact. A gloss there is to color that paradox, and make it appear in show not to be altogether unreasonable. Hooker. This wa…

Paradoxical. [Obs.]

One who proposes a paradox.

Of the nature of a paradox.

A genus of large trilobites characteristic of the primordial formations.

The use of paradoxes. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Any species of Paradoxurus, a genus of Asiatic viverrine mammals allied to the civet, as the musang, and the luwack or palm cat (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus). See Musang.

A paradoxical statement; a paradox.

By chance; perhaps; it may be; if; supposing. "If peradventure he speak against me." Shak. Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city. Gen. xviii. 24.

Situated around the radii, or radial tubes, of a radiate.

Any siphonophore which has an air sac for a float, as the Physalia.

Same as Pinnipedia.

An animal of the seal tribe, moving by short feet that serve as paddles.

A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.

Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the studies pursued after graduation, esp., after receiving the bachelor's degree at a college; graduate. -- n.

A horse. [Colloq. Eng.]

Swimming by the expansion and contraction, or lunglike movement, of the body, or of the disk, as do the medusæ.

Lit., one who has been reconcentrated; specif., in Cuba, the Philippines, etc., during the revolution of 1895-98, one of the rural noncombatants who were concentrated by the military authorities in areas surrounding the fortified towns, and later were reconcentrated in the smaller limits of the towns themselves.…