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Having four teeth; as, a quadridentate leaf.

Quarterage. [Obs.]

Dewy; bedewed. [R.] T. Granger.

lly (Mil.), a noncommissioned officer in the British cavalry, whose duty is to assist the riding master.

To form into round ridges by plowing. B. Edwards.

Of or pertaining to a rural dean; as, a ruridecanal district; the ruridecanal intellect. [R.]

A screed; a shred; a fragment. [R.]

The gilthead (Crenilabrus melops), a fish of the British coasts.

One of an extinct family of cryptagamous trees, including the genus Sigillaria and its allies.

A fluosilicate; a salt of silicofluoric acid.

Any fish of the family Silurid or of the order Siluroidei.

s between high and low water marks and have both lunglike organs and gills. -- Si`pho*na"rid, a.

Any one of numerous small species of springtails, of the family Sminthurid, -- usually found on flowers. See Illust. under Collembola.

A peculiar sense organ found upon the exterior of most kinds of sea urchins, and consisting of an oval or sherical head surmounting a short pedicel. It is generally supposed to be an olfactory organ.

A sporidium. Lindley.

Bearing sporidia.

A secondary spore, or a filament produced from a spore, in certain kinds of minute fungi.

Any one of a series of double fluorides of tin (stannum) and some other element.

A starfish.

An extensive group of echinoderms, comprising the starfishes and ophiurans.