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One of an ancient sect of philosophers, who cultivated learned conversation at meals.

One of a sect of Anabaptists who maintain that the demons or devils will finally be saved.

To exhibit and explain (a dissection or other anatomical preparation).

The exhibition and explanation of a dissection or other anatomical preparation.

A class, or society of individuals, called by the same name; a sect; as, a denomination of Christians.

Pertaining to a denomination, especially to a sect or society. "Denominational differences." Buckle.

A denominational or class spirit or policy; devotion to the interests of a sect or denomination.

In a denominational manner; by denomination or sect.

applied to a group of passerine birds, having the bill notched, and feeding chiefly on insects, as the shrikes and vireos. See Illust. (N) under Beak.

A genus of coleopterous insects, the larvæ of which feed animal substances. They are very destructive to dries meats, skins, woolens, and furs. The most common species is D. lardarius, known as the bacon beetle.

The division of insects which includes the earwigs (Forticulidæ).

An insect which has the anterior pair of wings coriaceous, and does not use them in flight, as the earwig.

rd the south. -- Descending node (Astron.), that point in a planet's orbit where it intersects the ecliptic in passing southward. -- Descending series (Math.), a series in which each term is numerically smaller than the preceding one; also, a series arranged according to descending powers of a quantity.…

An amphibious, insectivorous mammal found in Russia (Myogale moschata). It is allied to the moles, but is called muscrat by some English writers. [Written also dæsman.]

as fraud is surely detected at last. Burke. Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect. Pope.

er; to develop the mind. The sound developed itself into a real compound. J. Peile. All insects . . . acquire the jointed legs before the wings are fully developed. Owen.

scribed by a moving right line, and such that consecutive positions of the generator intersect each other. Hence, the surface can be developed into a plane.

) (a) The black rove beetle (Ocypus olens). [Eng.] (b) A large, predacious, hemipterous insect (Prionotus cristatus); the wheel bug. [U.S.] -- Devil's darning-needle. (Zoöl.) See under Darn, v. t. -- Devil's fingers, Devil's hand (Zoöl.), the common British starfish (Asterias rubens); -- also applied to a sponge with…

A curved formed by the consecutive intersections of rays of light refracted through a lens.

of a set of parallel lines, with other lines crossing them obliquely, so that their intersections furnish smaller subdivisions of the unit of measure than could be conveniently marked on a plain scale. -- Diagonal stratification. (Geol.) Same as Cross bedding, under Cross, a.