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Nursers, -- a term applied to those birds whose young are hatched in a very immature and helpless condition, so as to require the care of their parents for some time; -- opposed to præcoces.

A square of white linen worn at first on the head, but now about the neck and shoulders, by priests of the Roman Catholic Church while saying Mass.

In English; in the English manner; as, Livorno, Anglice Leghorn.

Of or in the Christian church or era, anterior to the first council of Nice, held a. d. 325; as, antenicene faith.

See Apex.

Excision of the vermiform appendix.

One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a mechanic, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him.

Apprenticeship. [Obs.]

Apprenticeship. [Obs.]

The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement.

A cessation of arms for a short time, by convention; a temporary suspension of hostilities by agreement; a truce.

Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work. The material universe.. in the artifice of God, the artifice of the best Mechanist. Cudworth.

One who makes or contrives; a deviser, inventor, or framer. "Artificer of fraud." Milton. The great Artificer of all that moves. Cowper.

A soothsayer of ancient Rome. Same as Aruspex. [Written also haruspice.]

Protection; patronage and care; guidance. Which by his auspice they will nobler make. Dryden.

tousness; cupidity. To desire money for its own sake, and in order to hoard it up, is avarice. Beattie.

One of the small hooklike processes on the barbules of feathers.

The second joint of the antennæ of crustaceans.

See under Ice.

The prickly fruit or seed of certain plants (as some species of Echinospermum and Cynoglossum) which cling to the clothing of those who brush by them.