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A pale ubspotted variety of the wrymouth.

Without life or spirit. [R.]

Like a ghost; ghastly.

The quality of being ghostly.

Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual; as, a ghostly confessor. Save and defend us from our ghostly enemies. Book of Common Prayer [Ch. of Eng. ] One of the gostly children of St. Jerome. Jer. Taylor.

Ghost lore. [R.] It seemed even more unaccountable than if it had been a thing of ghostology and witchcraft. Hawthorne.

One of a pair of broad plates, developed from the outer maxillipeds of crabs, and forming a cover for the other mouth organs.

ith the leptocardians and marsipobranchs (Cyclostoma), which lack them. [Written also Gnathostomata.]

The central keel-bearing part of the sternum in birds.

A chiton, or loose, ungirded tunic, falling in straight folds.

A longitudinal rank, or row, of leaves along a stem.

A division of ganoid fishes which includes the paddlefish, in which the mouth is armed with small teeth.

A salt of sulphostannic acid.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a sulphacid of tin (more exactly called metasulphostannic acid), which is obtained as a dark brown amorphous substance, H

working; in force; -- opposed to quiescent, dormant, or extinct; as, active laws; active hostilities; an active volcano.

divine honors to; to honor as deity or as divine. Bishops and priests, . . . bearing the host, which he [James adored. Smollett.

Hostile. [R.] Southey.

In hostile opposition to; unfavorable; unpropitious; contrary to one's wishes; unfortunate; calamitous; afflictive; hurtful; as, adverse fates, adverse circumstances, things adverse. Happy were it for us all if we bore prosperity as well and wisely as we endure an adverse fortune. Southey. Adverse possession (Law), a p…

o face in defiance; to confront; as, to confront; as, to affront death; hence, to meet in hostile encounter. [Archaic]

To commit the first act of hostility or offense; to begin a quarrel or controversy; to make an attack; -- with on.