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hich the ova sometimes undegro the first stages of their development. See Illust. of Chilostoma.

Acid; producing acid; -applied especially to certain glands and cells in the stomach.

degree of intensity; to torment; to torture; as, his dinner or his wound pained him; his stomach pained him. Excess of cold, as well as heat, pains us. Lock

Same as Merostomata. [Written also Palæocarida.]

The stomach of a hawk. Ainsworth.

a sucking mouth, as the lerneans. They are mostly parasites on fishes. Called also Siphonostomata.

To trade with customarily; to frequent as a customer. [Commercial Cant]

The belly and its contents; the abdomen; also, the first stomach, or rumen, of ruminants. See Rumen.

A payment; a tribute; something paid or given. [Obs.] The stomach's pension, and the time's expense. Sylvester.

An unorganized proteolytic ferment or enzyme contained in the secretory glands of the stomach. In the gastric juice it is united with dilute hydrochloric acid (0.2 per cent, approximately) and the two together constitute the active portion of the digestive fluid. It is the active agent in the gastric juice of all anima…

Surrounding the stomach; -- applied to the body cavity of Bryozoa and various other Invertebrata.

Any bat of the genus Phyllostoma, or allied genera, having large membranes around the mouth and nose; a nose-leaf bat.

Any lophobranch fish of the genus Siphostoma, or Syngnathus, and allied genera, having a long and very slender angular body, covered with bony plates. The mouth is small, at the end of a long, tubular snout. The male has a pouch on his belly, in which the incubation of the eggs takes place.

See Pit of the stomach (below).

A kind of stomacher, often adorned with jewels, worn in the fifteenth century and later.

An order of fishes including the sharks and rays; -- called also Plagiostomata.

Of or pertaining to the lungs and the stomach. -- n.

By some recent writers applied to the Merostomata.

also, a measure of length equal to 5 Bacon. Pole bean (Bot.), any kind of bean which is customarily trained on poles, as the scarlet runner or the Lima bean. -- Pole flounder (Zoöl.), a large deep-water flounder (Glyptocephalus cynoglossus), native of the northern coasts of Europe and America, and much esteemed as a f…

Frequently repeated or customary action; habitual performance; a succession of acts of a similar kind; usage; habit; custom; as, the practice of rising early; the practice of making regular entries of accounts; the practice of daily exercise. A heart . . . exercised with covetous practices. 2 Pet. ii. 14.…