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pods, including those having spiral shells. The two sides of the body are unequally developed.

To molest, incommode, or harm; as, to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade.

Pertaining to, or having the form of, a ring; forming a ring; ringed; ring-shaped; as, annular fibers.

Ring-shaped structures or markings, found in, or upon, various animals.

A genus of extinct quadrupeds of the order Ungulata, whose were first found in the gypsum quarries near Paris; characterized by the shortness and feebleness of their canine teeth (whence the name).

One of the small white egg-shaped pupæ or cocoons of the ant, often seen in or about ant-hills, and popularly supposed to be eggs.

One of a group of ruminant quadrupeds, intermediate between the deer and the goat. The horns are usually annulated, or ringed. There are many species in Africa and Asia. The antelope and wolf both fierce and fell. Spenser.

Shaped like antennæ.

Shaped like an anther; anther-shaped.

The stipe when developed into an internode between calyx and corolla, as in the Pink family. Gray.

An infectious disease of cattle and sheep. It is ascribed to the presence of a rod-shaped bacterium (Bacillus anthracis), the spores of which constitute the contagious matter. It may be transmitted to man by inoculation. The spleen becomes greatly enlarged and filled with bacteria. Called also splenic fever.…

otesque; ludicrous. The antic postures of a merry-andrew. Addison. The Saxons . . . worshiped many idols, barbarous in name, some monstrous, all antic for shape. Fuller.

An iron block, usually with a steel face, upon which metals are hammered and shaped.

An African sheeplike quadruped (the Ammotragus tragelaphus) having a long mane on the breast and fore legs. It is, perhaps, the chamois of the Old Testament.

A group of cirripeds, destitute of footlike organs.

The apartment at the entrance of the baths, or in the palestra, where one stripped; a dressing room.

An enlargement at the top of a pedicel or stem, as seen in certain mosses. Gray.

n to be tried. We must all appear before the judgment seat. * Cor. v. 10. One ruffian escaped because no prosecutor dared to appear. Macaulay.

A genus of small free-swimming Tunicata, shaped somewhat like a tadpole, and remarkable for resemblances to the larvæ of other Tunicata. It is the type of the order Copelata or Larvalia. See Illustration in Appendix.

of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped.