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The framework of some pods, as the cress, which remains after the valves drop off. Gray.

The second stomach of ruminants, in which folds of the mucous membrane form hexagonal cells; -- also called the honeycomb stomach.

A connecting band; a frænum; as, the retinacula of the ileocæcal and ileocolic valves.

A kind of alum occuring in small fragments; -- so called from Rocca, in Syria, whence alum is said to have been obtained; -- also called rock alum.

A small beaklike process or extension of some part; a small rostrum; as, the rostellum of the stigma of violets, or of the operculum of many mosses; the rostellum on the head of a tapeworm.

A little rostrum, or beak, as of an insect.

A genus of trees with entire opposite leaves and small apetalous flowers. There are less than a dozen species, occuring from India to Australia and the Pacific Islands. See Sandalwood.

A defamatory speech or writing published to the injury of a person of dignity; -- usually abbreviated scan. mag.

racic segment of an insect. It follows the scutum, and is followed by the small postscutellum; a scutella. See Thorax.

Possessing in itself the property of emitting light. Sir D. Brewster.

A half column; a column bisected longitudinally, or along its axis.

Like a semicolumn; flat on one side and round on the other; imperfectly columnar.

A feather which has a plumelike web, with the shaft of an ordinary feather.

A little septum; a division between small cavities or parts.

A seal.

A scoundrel. [Obs. or Scot.] Pepys. Burns.

ulation; any low neighborhood or dark retreat; -- usually in the plural; as, Westminster slums are haunts for theives. Dickens.

pecially, to sleep lightly; to doze. Piers Plowman. He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. Ps. cxxi. 4.

One who slumbers; a sleeper.

In a slumbering manner.