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One who rides on a velocipede.

Sick at the stomach; also, crestfallen; dejected. [Slang]

Cast down; crushed by misery; dejected. [Obs.]

Broad and truncate at the summit, and tapering down to the base; as, a wedge-shaped leaf.

Having good success.

Shaped like a wheel.

Shaped like the lash of a whip; long, slender, round, and tapering; as, a whip-shaped root or stem.

A form of self-propelling torpedo.

Shaped like a worm; as, a worm-shaped root.

l fair to ben yclept madame. Chaucer. But come, thou goddess fair and free. In heaven ycleped Euphrosyne. Milton. Those charming little missives ycleped valentines. Lamb.

A carnivorous quadruped (Proteles Lalandii), of South Africa, resembling the fox and hyena. See Proteles.

A group of cirripeds having abdominal appendages.

Rendered abortive or sterile; undeveloped; checked in normal development at a very early stage; as, spines are aborted branches. The eyes of the cirripeds are more or less aborted in their mature state. Owen.

Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile; as, an abortive organ, stamen, ovule, etc.

Broached; in a condition for letting out or yielding liquor, as a cask which is tapped. Hogsheads of ale were set abroach. Sir W. Scott.

Authoritative; peremptory. [R.] The peddler stopped, and tapped her on the head, With absolute forefinger, brown and ringed. Mrs. Browning.

Shaped like or resembling a mite.

Acerose; needle-shaped.

Needle-shaped, having a sharp, rigid point, as the leaf of the pine.

Heaped, or growing in heaps, or closely compacted clusters.