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Self-contradictory; inconsistent. Brougham.

Self-repelling.

Noisy; loud. [R.] Shenstone.

Loud; boisterous. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

A division of birds, including the clamatorial and picarian birds, which do not have well developed singing organs.

One of the Strepsiptera.

A group of small insects having the anterior wings rudimentary, and in the form of short and slender twisted appendages, while the posterior ones are large and membranous. They are parasitic in the larval state on bees, wasps, and the like; -- called also Rhipiptera. See Illust. under Rhipipter.

Of or pertaining to Strepsiptera.

Same as Lemuroidea.

One of the Strepsorhina; a lemur. See Illust. under Monkey.

A so-called variety of bacterium, consisting in reality of several bacteria linked together in the form of a chain.

A long or short chain of micrococci, more or less curved.

An extensive division of gastropod Mollusca in which the loop or visceral nerves is twisted, and the sexes separate. It is nearly to equivalent to Prosobranchiata.

A genus of bacilli occurring of the form of long, smooth and apparently branched threads, either straight or twisted.

The act of obtaining a favor by surprise, or by unfair representation through suppression or fraudulent concealment of facts. Bp. Hall.

Surreptitious. [Obs.] -- Sub`rep*ti"tious*ly, adv. [Obs.]

Surreptitious. [Obs.]

The act or process of getting in a surreptitious manner, or by craft or stealth. Fame by surreption got May stead us for the time, but lasteth not. B. Jonson.

ithout proper authority; made or introduced fraudulently; clandestine; stealthy; as, a surreptitious passage in an old manuscript; a surreptitious removal of goods. -- Sur`rep*ti"tious*ly, adv.

A salt of terephthalic acid.