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A native of Croatia, in Austria; esp., one of the native Slavic race.

The language of the Czechs (often called Bohemian), the harshest and richest of the Slavic languages.

The most westerly branch of the great Slavic family of nations, numbering now more than 6,000,000, and found principally in Bohemia and Moravia.

A projection, formed by a separate ossification, at the scapular end of the clavicle of many birds.

A median bone connected with the sternum, in many vertebrates; the interclavicle.

hich the grains become black, and often spur-shaped. It is caused by a parasitic fungus, Claviceps purpurea.

The wishbone or merrythought of birds, formed by the united clavicles.

Like lava, or composed of lava; lavic.

Of or pertaining to a branch of the Slavic family, subdivided into Lettish, Lithuanian, and Old Prussian. -- n.

The clavichord or clarichord; -- called also dumb spinet.

The anterior element of the sternum which projects forward from between the clavicles in many batrachians and is usually tipped with cartilage.

One of a family of clavicorn beetles, including those which have very long maxillary palpi.

A scheme or desire to unite all the Slavic races into one confederacy.

See Panslavic.

s are articulated; the shoulder girdle. In man it consists of two bones, the scapula and clavicle, on each side. -- Pectorial cross (Eccl.), a cross worn on the breast by bishops and abbots, and sometimes also by canons. -- Pectorial fins, or Pectorials (Zoöl.), fins situated on the sides, behind the gills. See Illus…

ral region of the skull; -- applied especially to a bone which usually connects the supraclavicle with the skull in the pectoral arch of fishes. -- n.

The anterior part of the coracoid (often closely united with the clavicle) in the shoulder girdle of many reptiles and amphibians.

manic languages descended from Latin, but containing many words from other languages, as Slavic, Turkish, and Greek.

indicate connection with, or relation to, the scapula or the shoulder; as, the scapulo- clavicular articulation, the articulation between the scapula and clavicle.

A hardened body formed by certain fungi, as by the Claviceps purpurea, which produced ergot.