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Outside of the uterus, or womb. Extra-uterine pregnancy (Med.), a condition of pregnancy in which the fetus is not in the uterus, but in the Fallopian tube or in the abdominal cavity.

cidæ, of many species. They have strong posterior legs and leap like fleas. The turnip flea- beetle (Phyllotreta vittata) and that of the grapevine (Graptodera chalybea) are common injurious species.

The bite of a flea, or the red spot caused by the bite.

Bitten by a flea; as, a flea-bitten face.

A jumping plant louse of the family Psyllidæ, of many species. That of the pear tree is Psylla pyri.

An agent exciting secretion of milk.

Producing twins. [R.] Bailey.

A director (usually one holding a number of directorships) who serves merely or mainly for the fee (in England, often a guinea) paid for attendance. [Colloq.]

A concrete juice produced by various trees found in the Malayan archipelago, especially by the Isonandra, or Dichopsis, Gutta. It becomes soft, and unpressible at the tamperature of boiling water, and, on cooling, retains its new shape. It dissolves in oils and ethers, but not in water. In many of its properties it res…

A sunk fence; a fence, wall, or ditch, not visible till one is close upon it. [Written also haw-haw.]

Combining forms indicating relation or resemblance to blood, association with blood; as, hæmapod, hæmatogenesis, hæmoscope.

Suicide, by slashing the abdomen, formerly practiced in Japan, and commanded by the government in the cases of disgraced officials; disembowelment; -- also written, but incorrectly, hari-kari. W. E. Griffis.

Same as Hæma-.

About this place; in this vicinity.

Dipped in the gall of the fabulous hydra; poisonous; deadly. Cowper.

Situated below the axil, as a bud.

Lying outside the visible spectrum at its red end; -- said of rays less refrangible than the extreme red rays.

A prefix signifying in, within, interior; as, intraocular, within the eyeball; intramarginal.

A little dandy; a little, foppish, impertinent fellow.

A small stuffed puppet to be pelted in Lent; hence, a simple fellow.