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One of the outer pinions or feathers of the wing of a bird, esp. of a hawk.

Cut through the middle.

The old squaw, or long-tailed duck.

ies of fine thin silk fabric, used for linings, etc. [Written also sarsenet.] Thou green sarcenet flap for a sore eye. Shak.

Same as Hypoxanthin.

ace in two directions, giving groups of four cubical cells. Also used adjectively; as, a sarcina micrococcus; a sarcina group. Sarcina form (Biol.), the tetrad form seen in the division of a dumb-bell group of micrococci into four; -- applied particularly to bacteria. See micrococcus.

To weed, or clear of weeds, with a hoe. [Obs.] Ainsworth.

A combining form from Gr. flesh; as, sarcophagous, flesh- eating; sarcology.

A fruit consisting of many dry indehiscent cells, which contain but few seeds and cohere about a common style, as in the mallows.

A minute yellowish body present in the interior of certain rhizopods.

the fleshy part of a stone fruit, situated between the skin, or epicarp, and the stone, or endocarp, as in a peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.

Any solid tumor of the testicle.

A gum resin obtained from certain shrubs of Africa (Penæa), -- formerly thought to cause healing of wounds and ulcers.

A name applied by Dujardin in 1835 to the gelatinous material forming the bodies of the lowest animals; protoplasm.

A sarcocarp.

Of or pertaining to sarcode.

Resembling flesh, or muscle; composed of sarcode.

relating to muscle and milk; as, sarcolactic acid. See Lactic acid, under Lactic.

The very thin transparent and apparently homogenous sheath which incloses a striated muscular fiber; the myolemma.

Flesh-colored.