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An animal, probably the hippopotamus, described in Job xl. 15- 24.

Same as Pantheism. [R.]

ssuming or positing the actual existence or reality of the physical or external world. Cosmothetic idealists (Metaph.), those who assume, without attempting to prove, the reality of external objects as corresponding to, and being the ground of, the ideas of which only the mind has direct cognizance. The cosmothetic ide…

The eelpout.

A female ancestor.

A woman who becomes sponsor for a child in baptism. See Godfather

The mother of one's father or mother.

Like a grandmother in age or manner; kind; indulgent.

The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.

A tussock moth (Ocneria dispar) native of the Old World, but accidentally introduced into eastern Massachusetts about 1869, where its caterpillars have done great damage to fruit, shade, and forest trees of many kinds. The male gypsy moth is yellowish brown, the female white, and larger than the male. In both sexes the…

Any moth of the family Sphingidæ, of which there are numerous genera and species. They are large, handsome moths, which fly mostly at twilight and hover about flowers like a humming bird, sucking the honey by means of a long, slender proboscis. The larvæ are large, hairless caterpillars ornamented with green and other…

An effusion of blood into the cavity of the pleura.

The basking or liver shark; -- called also homer. See Liver shark, under Liver.

Warm-blooded; homoiothermal; hæmatothermal.

A large and handsome American moth (Hyperchiria Io), having a large, bright-colored spot on each hind wing, resembling the spots on the tail of a peacock. The larva is covered with prickly hairs, which sting like nettles.

A common American moth (Pyrrharctia isabella), of an isabella color. The larva, called woolly bear and hedgehog caterpillar, is densely covered with hairs, which are black at each end of the body, and red in the middle part.

Resembling the mammoth in size; very large; gigantic; as, a mammoth ox.

A child brought up by its grandmother; a spoiled child. [R.] O, you are a more mammothrept in judgment. B. Jonson.

Feeding upon ants; -- said of certain birds.

A lawgiver. [R.]