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A spiritual or ghostly double or counterpart; esp., an apparitional double of a living person; a cowalker.

An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger.

A short rope grafted on a harpoon, to which a longer lin Totten.

Having the ganglia of the nervous system unsymmetrically arranged; -- said of certain invertebrate animals.

Having the ganglia of the nervous system symmetrically arranged, as in certain invertebrates; -- opposed to heterogangliate.

Between and uniting the nervous ganglions; as, interganglionic cords.

See Bovate.

Surrounding a ganglion; as, the periganglionic glands of the frog.

Same as Plowgate.

See Press gang, under Press.

A passage for water, such as was usually made in a sea wall, to drain water out of marshes. Burrill.

ons. -- Accommodation ladder (Naut.), a light ladder hung over the side of a ship at the gangway, useful in ascending from, or descending to, small boats.

A group of Annelida remarkable for having no external segments or distinct ventral nerve ganglions.

An oxgang, or as much land as an ox can plow in a year; an ancient measure of land, of indefinite quantity, but usually estimated at fifteen acres.

The anterior or cephalic ganglion in insects and other invertebrates.

A lawless fellow who lives by plunder; one of a band of robbers; especially, one of a gang living in mountain retreats; a highwayman; a freebooter. Giving them not a little the air of brigands or banditti. Jeffery.

large and commodious, but generally cumbrous and sluggish boat, used for journeys on the Ganges.

Diseased or gangrenous condition of the mouth.

A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth; -- called also water canker, canker of the mouth, and noma.

an object. (b) (Railroad) Supplementary coupling together of cars with a chain. -- Chain gang, a gang of convicts chained together. -- Chain hook (Naut.), a hook, used for dragging cables about the deck. -- Chain mail, flexible, defensive armor of hammered metal links wrought into the form of a garment. -- Chain mo…