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They inhabit the warmest parts of Asia and Africa, and feed on ants. Called also Scaly anteater. See Pangolin.

The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the breast or mamma; the mammilla; a teat; a pap.

A nipple; a mammilla; a teat. Dryden. The paps which thou hast sucked. Luke xi. 27.

The condition of having more than two teats, or nipples.

A variety of steatite sometimes manufactured into culinary vessels.

from several tropical American leguminous trees of the genus Copaifera (C. pubiflora, bracteata, and officinalis). Used for decorative veneering. See Copaiba.

That part of a testeator's estate wwhich is not disposed of in his will by particular and special legacies and devises, and which remains after payment of debts and legacies.

See Steatite, and Talc.

nd two single blocks. Luce (Textbook of Seamanship). -- Spanish chalk (Min.), a kind of steatite; -- so called because obtained from Aragon in Spain. -- Spanish cress (Bot.), a cruciferous plant (lepidium Cadamines), a species of peppergrass. -- Spanish curiew (Zoöl.), the long-billed curlew. [U.S.] -- Spanish dagge…

y; to draw the last milk from; hence, to milk with a peculiar movement of the hand on the teats at the last of a milking; as, to strip a cow.

A teat. [Obs.] Sir T. Herbert.

To suck. [Obs. or Archaic] The lambkins swig the teat. Creech.

grayish color, usually occurring in foliated masses. It is hydrous silicate of magnesia. Steatite, or soapstone, is a compact granular variety. Indurated talc, an impure, slaty talc, with a nearly compact texture, and greater hardness than common talc; -- called also talc slate.

Captious; testy. [Written also teatish.] [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

A little teat; a nipple. [Familiar]

is therefore commonly made up of simple stripes. -- Venetian chalk, a white compact or steatite, used for marking on cloth, etc. -- Venetian door (Arch.), a door having long, narrow windows or panes of glass on the sides. -- Venetian glass, a kind of glass made by the Venetians, for decorative purposes, by the comb…