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The parting of the hair on the head. [Obs.] Full straight and even lay his jolly shode. Chaucer.

See Shoad, Shoading.

A package of gold beater's skins in which gold is subjected to the second process of beating.

Wearing or having a snood. "The snooded daughter." Whittier.

See Solder.

The covering of a seed; -- sometimes limited to the outer coat or testa. Lindley.

An extensive division of marine Annelida, including those that are without oral tentacles or cirri, and have the gills, when present, mostly arranged along the sides of the body. They generally live in burrows or tubes.

A staminodium.

A division of swimming birds in which all four toes are united by a broad web. It includes the pelicans, cormorants, gannets, and others.

Any species of bat belonging to the genus Stenoderma, native of the West Indies and South America. These bats have a short or rudimentary tail and a peculiarly shaped nose membrane.

Of or pertaining to the genus Stenoderma, which includes several West Indian and South American nose-leaf bats.

Having a mouth; -- applied to certain Protozoa. -- n.

See Strude. [Obs.]

A sympodium.

A cutaneous affection due to syphilis.

Of or pertaining to the cutaneous manifestations of syphilis.

A division of Tunicata including the common attached ascidians, both simple and compound. Called also Tethioidea.

A threne, or threnody; a dirge; a funeral song.

Swung by the tide when at anchor; -- opposed to wind-rode.

One of the Trematodea. Also used adjectively.