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A genus of bright-colored Siphonophora found floating in the warmer parts of the ocean. The individuals are round and disk-shaped, with a large zooid in the center of the under side, surrounded by smaller nutritive and reproductive zooids, and by slender dactylozooids near the margin. The disk contains a central float,…

Any small kangaroo belonging to Hypsiprymnus, Bettongia, and allied genera, native of Australia and Tasmania. Called also kangaroo rat.

rass, and usually characterized by a deep, fertile soil. They abound throughout the Mississippi valley, between the Alleghanies and the Rocky mountains. From the forests and the prairies, From the great lakes of the northland. Longfellow.

ion of expense; extravagantly; wasteful; profusely; lavishly; as, an estate prodigally dissipated. Nature not bounteous now, but lavish grows; Our paths with flowers she prodigally strows. Dryden.

That which is puerile or childish; especially, an expression which is flat, insipid, or silly.

A carouse; any reckless dissipation. [Slang]

red fins. Called also red dace, and shiner. Applied also to Notropis ardens, of the Mississippi valley.

ruit, nor known till now True relish, tasting. Milton. When liberty is gone, Life grows insipid, and has lost its relish. Addison.

One who retails anything; as, a retailer of merchandise; a retailer of gossip.

One of the Rhipiptera, a group of insects having wings which fold like a fan; a strepsipter.

To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.

The erysipelas. Dunglison.

y's cross, a T-shaped cross. See Illust. 6, under Cross. -- Saint Anthony's fire, the erysipelas; -- popularly so called because it was supposed to have been cured by the intercession of Saint Anthony. -- Saint Anthony's nut (Bot.), the groundnut (Bunium flexuosum); -- so called because swine feed on it, and St. Anth…

lly qualified by old. [Colloq.] Around the door are generally to be seen, laughing and gossiping, clusters of old salts. Hawthorne.

Destitute of salt; insipid.

Having no savor; destitute of smell or of taste; insipid.

different directions; to reduce from a close or compact to a loose or broken order; to dissipate; to disperse. Scatter and disperse the giddy Goths. Shak.

Dispersed; dissipated; sprinkled, or loosely spread.

iolent commotion; to be hot; to boil. 1 Sam. ii. 13. A long Pointe, round which the Mississippi used to whirl, and seethe, and foam. G. W. Cable.

One of the cells or division formed by segmentation, as in egg cleavage or in fissiparous cell formation.