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pocket inclosing a number of spermatozoa. They are present in many annelids, brachiopods, mollusks, and crustaceans. In cephalopods the structure of the capsule is very complex.

A marine animal that spouts water; -- applied especially to certain bivalve mollusks, like the long clams (Mya), which spout, or squirt out, water when retiring into their holes.

march upon one's political rivals. She yesterday wanted to steal a march of poor Liddy. Smollett. Fifty thousand men can not easily steal a march over the sea. Walpole.

Of or pertaining to the mouth and the stomach; as, the stomatogastric ganglion of certain Mollusca.

An extensive division of gastropod Mollusca in which the loop or visceral nerves is twisted, and the sexes separate. It is nearly to equivalent to Prosobranchiata.

See Stripping, 2. Smollett.

Any marine univalve mollusk of the genus Strombus and allied genera. See Conch, and Strombus.

ons of either the animal, or vegetable kingdom, as, in zoölogy, the Vertebrata, Tunicata, Mollusca, Articulata, Molluscoidea, Echinodermata, Coelentera, and the Protozoa; in botany, the Phanerogamia, and the Cryptogamia.

Next to the median (on either side); as, the submedian teeth of mollusks.

e the branchiæ; -- applied especially to the upper division of the gill cavity of bivalve mollusks.

Situated above the foot of a mollusk; as, the suprapedal gland.

A prominent, overhanging belly. Smollett.

le, of both sexes, . . . devouring sliced beef, and swilling pork, and punch, and cider. Smollett.

The cross, or church, of St. Antony. See Illust. (6), under Cross, n. Mollett.

An extensive division of gastropod mollusks in which the odontophore is long and narrow, and usually bears seven rows of teeth. It includes a large number of families both marine and fresh- water.

arly barred, with greenish gray. Called also blackfish, oyster fish, salt-water chub, and moll. [Written also tautaug.]

An order, or suborder, of gastropod Mollusca in which the gills are usually situated on one side of the back, and protected by a fold of the mantle. When there is a shell, it is usually thin and delicate and often rudimentary. The aplysias and the bubble shells are examples.

A tectibranchiate mollusk.

A genus of marine bivalve mollusks having thin, delicate, and often handsomely colored shells.

ify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage; to soothe; to calm. Puritan austerity was so tempered by Dutch indifference, that mercy itself could not have dictated a milder system. Bancroft. Woman! lovely woman! nature made thee To temper man: we had bee…