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nal or commission having charge of the revenue derived from trade and navigation. [China] Hoppo men, Chinese customhouse officers.

A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground; -- called also hoppers.

A field where hops are raised.

Spine-bearing. Gray.

Having spinous petioles.

A group of teleostean fishes having spiny fins. See Acanthopterygii.

Acanthopterygious.

Belonging to the order of fishes having spinose fins, as the perch. -- n.

An order of fishes having some of the rays of the dorsal, ventral, and anal fins unarticulated and spinelike, as the perch.

Having fins in which the rays are hard and spinelike; spiny- finned.

A product of gastric digestion, a mixture of hemipeptone and antipeptone.

Distorted vision, in which straight lines appear bent.

Eating flowers; -- said of certain insects.

Lit., fond of flowers; hence, feeding upon, or living among, flowers.

The stipe when developed into an internode between calyx and corolla, as in the Pink family. Gray.

Flower bearing; supporting the flower.

A mineral of the hornblende group, of a yellowish gray or clove brown color. -- An`tho*phyl*lit"ic, a.

A chief bishop; a church dignitary of the first class (often called a metropolitan or primate) who superintends the conduct of the suffragan bishops in his province, and also exercises episcopal authority in his own diocese.

The jurisdiction or office of an archbishop; the see or province over which archbishop exercises archiepiscopal authority.

The substance from which attraction spheres develop in mitotic cell division, and of which they consist.