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Shaped like a small fungus.

An oyster which has the gills tinged with a green pigment, said to be due to an abnormal condition of the blood.

A sealing up. [Obs.] Maunder.

Proud; haughty. [Obs.] Shak.

Having flat, or leaflike, gills, as the bivalve mollusks.

Little images or figures of earthenware exposed for sale, or given as presents, on the last two days of the Saturnalia; hence, the last two, or the sixth and seventh, days of the Saturnalia.

One of an extinct family of cryptagamous trees, including the genus Sigillaria and its allies.

Decorated by means of stamps; -- said of pottery.

Fit to seal; belonging to a seal; composed of wax. [R.]

A seal.

A genus of siliceous spongea found in fresh water.

Set with stiff, slender bristles.

To beat livid, or black and blue. Wiseman.

A livid, or black and blue, mark; a blow; a bruise.

Without gills.

To increase; to grow. [Obs.] Gillespie.

One of a tribe of Amphibia, which have both lungs and gills at the same time, as the proteus and siren.

n United States, having a serpentlike form, but with four minute limbs and two persistent gill openings; the Congo snake.

ions to a different organ in another species or group, or even in the same group; as, the gill of a fish is the analogue of a lung in a quadruped, although the two are not of like structural relations.

A division of nudibranchiate Mollusca, in which the gills form a wreath or cluster upon the posterior part of the back. See Nudibranchiata, and Doris.