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Feeding upon aphides, or plant lice, as do beetles of the family Coccinellidæ.

Of or pertaining to an archdeacon. This offense is liable to be censured in an archidiaconal visitation. Johnson.

A sulphide having two atoms of sulphur in the molecule; a disulphide, as in iron pyrites, FeS2; -- less frequently called bisulphuret.

The unwritten code of moral principles regulating the actions of the Japanese knighthood, or Samurai; the chivalry of Japan.

To rebuke; to reprove; to scold; to find fault with. Upbraided, chid, and rated at. Shak.

One who chides or quarrels. Shak.

She who chides. [Obs.]

A female scold. [Obs.]

In a chiding or reproving manner.

The hide of a cow.

Same as Didelphic.

ntaining two atoms of sulphur in each molecule; -- formerly called disulphuret. Cf. Bisulphide.

A monster, half maid and half serpent.

The clear, viscid fluid secreted by the poison glands of certain serpents; also, a nitrogenous base contained in this, and supposed to be the active poisonous principle of the virus. Brande & C.

The uppermost member of the cornice of an entablature.

Any compound of ethyl of a binary type; as, potassium ethide.

Ethylidene. [Obs.]

Having barbs; as, glochidiate bristles. Gray.

The larva or young of the mussel, formerly thought to be a parasite upon the parent's gills.

The ramus of the lower jaw of a bird as far as it is naked; -- commonly used in the plural.