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g ancient writings, and determining their origin, period, etc., from external characters; diplomatics.

se. Among the most beautiful species are the superb (Lophorina superba); the magnificent (Diphyllodes magnifica); and the six-shafted paradise bird (Parotia sefilata). The long-billed paradise birds (Epimachinæ) also include some highly ornamental species, as the twelve-wired paradise bird (Seleucides alba), which is b…

Combining forms from L. pes, pedis, foot, as pedipalp, pedireme, pedometer.

emselves to obstacles even such as steps or stairs. The pedrail was invented by one B. J. Diplock of London, Eng.

The dipper, or watter ouzel. [Scot.]

name in the West Indies for the wood of several very different kinds of trees, species of Dipholis, Diospyros, and Coccoloba. -- Pigeon woodpecker (Zoöl.), the flicker. -- Prairie pigeon. (Zoöl.) (a) The upland plover. (b) The golden plover. [Local, U.S.]

A small wooden pail or tub with an upright stave for a handle, -- often used as a dipper.

ned from certain fatty substances, and subsequently shown to be a mixture of suberic and adipic acids.

m used in designating an East Indian tree (the Vateria Indica or piney tree, of the order Dipterocarpeæ, which grows in Malabar, etc.) or its products. Piney dammar, Piney resin, Piney varnish, a pellucid, fragrant, acrid, bitter resin, which exudes from the piney tree (Vateria Indica) when wounded. It is used as a var…

The sailor's choice (Diplodus, or Lagodon, rhomboides).

The balancer of dipterous insects.

the end of the vertebral column, like that which is first formed in the embryo of fishes; diphycercal.

An agreement of diplomatists indicating the results reached by them at a particular stage of a negotiation.

s of certain insects (Stylops). They resemble the halteres, or rudimentary hind wings, of Diptera.

or Obtected, pupa, a pupa which is incased in the dried-up skin of the larva, as in many Diptera. -- Masked pupa, a pupa whose limbs are bound down and partly concealed by a chitinous covering, as in Lepidoptera.

Bearing or containing a pupa; -- said of dipterous larvæ which do not molt when the pupa is formed within them.

A division of Diptera in which the young are born in a stage like the pupa. It includes the sheep tick, horse tick, and other parasites. Called also Homaloptera.

Bearing, or containing, a pupa; -- said of the matured larvæ, or larval skins, of certain Diptera.

Any grasshopper or locust of the genus (Edipoda; -- so called from the quaking noise made during flight. Quaker buttons. (Bot.) See Nux vomica. -- Quaker gun, a dummy cannon made of wood or other material; -- so called because the sect of Friends, or Quakers, hold to the doctrine, of nonresistance. -- Quaker ladies (…

Turning or dipping in any or every direction.