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Any free-swimming gonophore of a hydroid; a hydroid medusa.

A genus of ctenophores having an ovate body and two long plumose tentacles.

A cyst or sac of a siphonophore, containing air, and serving as a float, as in Physalia.

: A small promontory or cape; a tract of land extending into the water beyond the common shore line.

esh-water polyp, the hydra. -- Polyp stem (Zoöl.), that portion of the stem of a siphonophore which bears the polypites, or feeding zooids.

One of the feeding zooids, or polyps, of a coral, hydroid, or siphonophore; a hydranth. See Illust. of Campanularian.

An order of marine Bryozoa, having a bilobed lophophore and an axial cord. The genus Rhabdopleura is the type. Called also Podostomata. See Rhabdopleura.

ortulacaria Afra) with many small opposite fleshy obovate leaves. -- Sea purslane, a seashore plant (Arenaria peploides) with crowded opposite fleshy leaves. -- Water purslane, an aquatic plant (Ludwiqia palustris) but slightly resembling purslane.

-- To put off, to go away; to depart; esp., to leave land, as a ship; to move from the shore. -- To put on, to hasten motion; to drive vehemently. -- To put over (Naut.), to sail over or across. -- To put to sea (Naut.), to set sail; to begin a voyage; to advance into the ocean. -- To put up. (a) To take lodgings…

A transparent body found in the chromatophores of certain Infusoria.

Any one of several substances or mixtures which phosphoresce or ignite spontaneously on exposure to air, as a heated mixture of alum, potash, and charcoal, or a mixture of charcoal and finely divided lead.

sometimes two or three feet long, which swim at the surface of the sea and are very phosphorescent.

infected a malignant contagious disease, is obliged to forbear all intercourse with the shore; hence, such restraint or inhibition of intercourse; also, the place where infected or prohibited vessels are stationed.

bbon bearing the teeth of mollusks; -- called also lingual ribbon, and tongue. See Odontophore.

A prop or shore. [Scot.]

ack; to retreat; to withdraw. Like the hollow roar Of tides receding from the instituted shore. Dryden. All bodies moved circularly endeavor to recede from the center. Bentley.

To go on shore after having embarked; to land again.

To recede; to fall or bend back; as, the shore of the sea retires in bays and gulfs.

tubular cells have a centralchitinous axis and the tentacles are borne on a bilobed lophophore. It is the type of the order Pterobranchia, or Podostomata

sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore.