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Waste silk formed in winding off the threads from a cocoon.

Belonging to spoils; taken in war. [Obs.] Bailey.

Of or pertaining to a manubrium; shaped like a manubrium; handlelike.

A handlelike process or part; esp., the anterior segment of the sternum, or presternum, and the handlelike process of the malleus.

To cloud; to obscure. [Obs.] Burton. -- Ob*nu"bi*la"tion, n. [Obs.] Beddoes.

Presiding over marriage. [R.]

t with contempt or neglect, as a forward or pretentious person; to slight designedly. To snub a cable or rope (Naut.), to check it suddenly in running out. Totten.

Having a short, flat nose, slightly turned up; as, the snub- nosed eel. Snub-nosed cachalot (Zoöl.), the pygmy sperm whale.

The Abyssinian or Arabian ibex (Capra Nubiana). It is probably the wild goat of the Bible.

The huso or salmon of the Danube.

age; suitable or appropriate to the marriage state or to married persons; matrimonial; connubial. "Conjugal affection." Milton.

In a conjugal manner; matrimonially; connubially.

n. Quiet consummation have, And renownShak. Consummation of marrige, completion of the connubial relation by actual cohabition.

To insult; to flout; to mock; to snub. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

A large salmon (Salmo, or Salvelinus, hucho) inhabiting the Danube; -- called also huso, and bull trout.

One of the nutritive zooids of a hydroid colony. Also applied to the proboscis or manubrium of a hydroid medusa. See Illust. of Hydroidea.

A species of wild goat (Capra Nubiana) found in the mountains of Abyssinia, Upper Egypt, and Arabia; -- called also beden, and jaela.

A fish of the genus Leuciscus; the blue chub of the Danube.

lling up a leaf and fastening the edges together with silk, as if sewn; esp., Phoxopteris nubeculana, which feeds upon the apple tree. -- Leaf sight, a hinges sight on a firearm, which can be raised or folded down. -- Leaf trace (Bot.), one or more fibrovascular bundles, which may be traced down an endogenous stem fr…

s; the hammer. It is attached to the tympanic membrane by a long process, the handle or manubrium. See Illust. of Far.