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To do chores. [U. S.]

St. Vitus's dance; a disease attended with convulsive twitchings and other involuntary movements of the muscles or limbs.

See Choreus.

Pertaining to choregraphy.

The art of representing dancing by signs, as music is represented by notes. Craig.

Of the nature of, or pertaining to, chorea; convulsive.

Pertaining to a chorepiscopus or his change or authority.

A "country" or suffragan bishop, appointed in the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural district.

a trochee.

A contractile cell or vesicle containing liquid pigment and capable of changing its form or size, thus causing changes of color in the translucent skin of such animals as possess them. They are highly developed and numerous in the cephalopods.

Any chemical group or residue (as NO

A suckerlike organ at the base of the abdomen of insects belonging to the Collembola.

(Zoöl.) One of the Ctenophora.

Perspiration, or an increase of perspiration.

A medicine or agent which promotes perspiration.

Having the power to increase perspiration.

One of several shores used to hold a ship firmly and prevent her moving while the blocks are knocked away before launching.

The slender, hollow thread of a nettling cell or cnida. See Nettling cell. [Written also ecthoræum.]

A sexual zooid produced as a medusoid bud upon a hydroid, sometimes becoming a free hydromedusa, sometimes remaining attached. See Hydroidea, and Illusts. of Athecata, Campanularian, and Gonosome.

A ventral canal or groove, in which the males of some dioecious trematodes carry the female. See Illust. of Hæmatozoa.