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The ichneumon flies.

Exhibition of colors like those of the rainbow; the quality or state of being iridescent; a prismatic play of color; as, the iridescence of mother-of-pearl.

lors like the rainbow; exhibiting a play of changeable colors; nacreous; prismatic; as, iridescent glass.

A cuirassier or cuirassiers; also, hardy veteran soldiers; -- applied specifically to Cromwell's cavalry.

The state or quality of being lapidescent.

Undergoing the process of becoming stone; having the capacity of being converted into stone; having the quality of petrifying bodies.

The typical butterflies.

A genus of large trilobites characteristic of the primordial formations.

udes the caddice flies; -- called also Trichoptera. See Trichoptera. [Written also Phryganides.]

The Muses.

A group of fishes including the sharks and rays; the Elasmobranchii; -- called also Placoidei.

See Rhaphides.

sparent, often needlle-shaped, crystals found in the tissues of plants. [Written also raphides.]

The class of skin disease developed by the dartrous diathesis. See under Dartrous.

A rhomboid. [R.] Milton.

dle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted. Sidesaddle flower (Bot.), a plant with hollow leaves and curiously shaped flowers; -- called also huntsman's cup. See Sarracenia.

A party man; a partisan. Milton.

ery abundant. Called also silverside, sand smelt, friar, tailor, and tinker. Brook silversides (Zoöl.), a small fresh-water North American fish (Labadesthes sicculus) related to the marine silversides.

The smooth, striated, or partially polished surfaces of a fissure or seam, supposed to have been produced by the sliding of one surface on another.

Same as Slickensides.