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A chitinous structure which supports the gill in some invertebrates.

Having a small, distinct point; apiculate. Henslow.

one root form, or from many different root forms; polygenetic; -- opposed to Ant: monophyletic.

btained from an expenditure of one hundred kilogram-meters of energy per second. One poncelet equals g watts, when g is the value of the acceleration of gravity in centimeters.

A petty prince. [R.]

One of the common people; a low person; also, the common people as a class or estate in a country.

Having a numerous offspring. [R.]

Of or pertaining to the proletaries; belonging to the commonalty; hence, mean; vile; vulgar. "Every citizen, if he were not a proletarian animal kept at the public cost." De Quincey. -- n.

The indigent class in the State; the body of proletarians.

The lower classes; beggars. "The Italian proletariate." J. A. Symonds.

A citizen of the lowest class, who served the state, not with property, but only by having children; hence, a common person.

A division of birds including the sand grouse. They are in some respects intermediate between the pigeons and true grouse. Called also Pteroclomorphæ.

A pamphlet which, in some States of the United States having the initiative or referendum, is mailed to the voters to inform them as to the nature of a measure submitted by the initiative or referendum. The pamphlet contains a copy of the proposed law and arguments for and against it by those favoring and opposing it,…

A young hen, or female of the domestic fowl. Pullet sperm, the treadle of an egg. [Obs.] Shak.

A collection or combination of four of a kind.

A little quarrel. See 1st Quarrel, 2. [Obs.] "Quarrelets of pearl [teeth]." Herrick.

Subtilty; nicety; quibble. "Nice, sharp quillets of the law." Shak.

A collection or combination of five of a kind.

Any machine or vehicle that does not run smoothly. [Colloq.] A. Trollope.

To let anew, as a hous.