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Any species of Goliathus, a genus of very large and handsome African beetles.

s, which have been ground in water and mingled with a preparation of gum; also, a picture thus painted.

andard or unit. This standard is usually water for solids and liquids, and air for gases. Thus, 19, the specific gravity of gold, expresses the fact that, bulk for bulk, gold is nineteen times as heavy as water.

ind it. -- Gregorian year, the year as now reckoned according to the Gregorian calendar. Thus, every year, of the current reckoning, which is divisible by 4, except those divisible by 100 aud not by 400, has 366 days; all other years have 365 days. See Bissextile, and Note under Style, n., 7.

The process of filling in or finishing with grout; also, the grout thus filled in. Gwilt.

To murmur; to grumble. [Obs.] What aileth you, thus for grucche and groan. Chaucer.

To make a sentimental or untimely exhibition of affection; to display enthusiasm in a silly, demonstrative manner. [Colloq.]

An African fruit bat (Hypsignathus monstrosus); -- so called from its large blunt nozzle.

To have; have. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. Him thanken all, and thus they han an end. Chaucer.

A large and valuable food fish (Polyprion prognathus) of New Zealand. It sometimes weighs one hundred pounds or more.

To usher in; to be a harbinger of. "Thus did the star of religious freedom harbinger the day." Bancroft.

in common. In 1803, a portion of this sect settled in Pennsylvania and called the village thus established, Harmony.

o frequently; to visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon. You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house. Shak. Those cares that haunt the court and town. Swift.

through the narrow passage between the depressed soft palate and the root of the tongue, thus aiding in the removal of foreign substances.

To restore to original purity or integrity. Thus saith the Lord, I have healed these waters. 2 Kings ii. 21.

ch, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood. Why does my blood thus muster to my heart! Shak.

to bet upon both sides; that is, after having bet on one side, to bet also on the other, thus guarding against loss.

To subject to petty authority; -- said of a wife who thus treats her husband. Commonly used in the past participle (often adjectively).

y, or manage; as he holds himself erect; he holds his head high. Let him hold his fingers thus. Shak. To hold a wager, to lay or hazard a wager. Swift. -- To hold forth, to offer; to exhibit; to propose; to put forward. "The propositions which books hold forth and pretend to teach." Locke. -- To held in, to restrain;…

and structure in parts embryonically distinct (other writers using the term homoplasmy). Thus, there is homogeny between the fore limb of a mammal and the wing of a bird; but the right and left ventricles of the heart in both are only in homoplasy with each other, these having arisen independently since the divergence…