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sheet-iron cover for articles in a leer or annealing arch, to protect them from drafts. Omnibus bill, a legislative bill which provides for a number of miscellaneous enactments or appropriations. [Parliamentary Cant, U.S.] -- Omnibus box, a large box in a theater, on a level with the stage and having communication with…

One of the Pectinibranchiata. Also used adjectively.

A division of Gastropoda, including those that have a comblike gill upon the neck.

Having pectinated gills.

Painstaking; assidous. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Those Batrachia which retain their gills through life, as the menobranchus.

Belonging to the Perennibranchiata.

The capability of being placed or located. [Obs.] Barrow.

Same as Pulmonata.

Same as Pulmonate.

An interval of a fifth; also, a part sung with such intervals. [Obs.] "He sang . . . a loud quynyble." Chaucer.

To check; to sneap; to sneb. [Obs.] Him would he snib sharply for the nones. Chaucer.

Having but one gill, as certain molluscs.

Cannibals; man-eaters; anthropophagi. [R.]

Man eaters; cannibals. Shak.

Relating to cannibalism or anthropophagy.

A cannibal. W. Taylor.

Feeding on human flesh; cannibal.

The eating of human flesh; cannibalism.

A large omnibus used for excursions. [Local, U.S.]