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An electric generator or dynamo for producing alternating currents.

Succession by turns; alternation. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

The five united jaws and accessory ossicles of certain sea urchins.

To spurn; to despise. [Obs.] Sir T. More.

In or at the hinder part of a ship; toward the hinder part, or stern; backward; as, to go astern.

Not sternal; -- said of ribs which do not join the sternum.

Of or pertaining to Avernus, a lake of Campania, in Italy, famous for its poisonous vapors, which ancient writers fancied were so malignant as to kill birds flying over it. It was represented by the poets to be connected with the infernal regions.

A Brazilian dipterous insect of the genus Trypeta, which lays its eggs in the nostrils or in wounds of man and beast, where the larvæ do great injury.

See Barnacle.

Of or pertaining to St. Bernard of Clairvaux, or to the Cistercian monks. -- n.

A native or natives of Bern.

A bernicle goose. [Written also barnacle.] Bernicle goose (Zoöl.), a goose (Branta leucopsis), of Arctic Europe and America. It was formerly believed that it hatched from the cirripeds of the sea (Lepas), which were, therefore, called barnacles, goose barnacles, or Anatifers. The name is also applied to other related s…

Some as Burnoose.

The quality of being better or superior; superiority. [R.] Sir P. Sidney.

An anvil ending in a beak or point (orig. in two beaks); also, the beak or horn itself.

Doubly ternate, as when a petiole has three ternate leaflets. -- Bi*ter"nate*ly, adv. Gray.

A wading bird of the genus Botaurus, allied to the herons, of various species.

proach or sarcasm; deep distress, grief, or vexation of mind. The lip that curls with bitterness. Percival. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. Job vii. 11.

The swamp hickory (Carya amara). Its thin-shelled nuts are bitter.

An American tree (Juglans cinerea) of the Walnut family, and its edible fruit; -- so called from the oil contained in the latter. Sometimes called oil nut and white walnut.