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A shove; a push. [Obs.] Udall.

A fruit bat, esp. the Indian edible fruit bat (Pteropus edulis).

ge tail, while the fore legs are comparatively short and feeble. The giant kangaroo (Macropus major) is the largest species, sometimes becoming twelve or fourteen feet in total length. The tree kangaroos, belonging to the genus Dendrolagus, live in trees; the rock kangaroos, of the genus Petrogale, inhabit rocky situat…

(Zoöl.) An antelope (Cerphalopus pygmæus), found in South Africa. It is of very small size, being but one foot high at shoulder. It is remarkable for its activity, and for its mild and timid disposition. Called also guevi, and pygmy antelope.

er, often represented as resembling an island, but sometimes as resembling an immense octopus. To believe all that has been said of the sea serpent or kraken, would be credulity; to reject the possibility of their existence, would be presumption. Goldsmith. Like a kraken huge and black. Longfellow.

aid of blood rendered transparent by the action of some solvent agent on the red blood corpuscles.

a disposition to promote healing; not noxious; as, laudable juices of the body; laudable pus. Arbuthnot.

er (Lithocolletis geminatella). -- Leaf notcher (Zoöl.), a pale bluish green beetle (Artipus Floridanus), which, in Florida, eats the edges of the leaves of orange trees. -- Leaf roller (Zoöl.), the larva of any tortricid moth which makes a nest by rolling up the leaves of plants. See Tortrix. -- Leaf scar (Bot.), t…

ions on the legs; -- said of certain insects; as, the leaf-footed bug (Leptoglossus phyllopus).

lly conspicuous in the brain and nerve tissue, in yolk of eggs, and in the white blood corpuscles.

A colorless corpuscle, as one of the white blood corpuscles, or those found in lymph, marrow of hone, connective tissue, etc.

A disease in which the white corpuscles of the blood are largely increased in number, and there is enlargement of the spleen, or the lymphatic glands; leuchæmia.

A West Indian fish of the genus Ephippus, remarkable for its high dorsal fin and brilliant colors.

lobsters. Lobster caterpillar (Zoöl.), the caterpillar of a European bombycid moth (Stauropus fagi); -- so called from its form. Lobster louse (Zoöl.), a copepod crustacean (Nicothoë astaci) parasitic on the gills of the European lobster.

ostean fishes, having the gills arranged in tufts on the branchial arches, as the Hippocampus and pipefishes.

A large, thick, clumsy, marine fish (Cyclopterus lumpus) of Europe and America. The color is usually translucent sea green, sometimes purplish. It has a dorsal row of spiny tubercles, and three rows on each side, but has no scales. The ventral fins unite and form a ventral sucker for adhesion to stones and seaweeds. Ca…

The middle bone of the proximal series of the carpus; -- called also semilunar, and intermedium.

ongly marked yellow color, extracted from the yelk of eggs, and from the tissue of the corpus luteum.

group of Mammalia, including the marsupials and monotremes; - - so called because the corpus callosum is rudimentary.

id, contained in the lymphatic vessels, coagulable like blood, but free from red blood corpuscles. It is absorbed from the various tissues and organs of the body, and is finally discharged by the thoracic and right lymphatic ducts into the great veins near the heart.