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ganized body; the first individual, or pair of individuals, of a species. A species is a class of individuals, each of which is hypothetically considered to be the descendant of the same protoplast, or of the same pair of protoplasts. Latham.

A division of fresh-water rhizopods including those that have a soft body and delicate branched pseudopodia. The genus Gromia is one of the best-known.

First-formed. Howell.

ndian leguminous tree Butea frondosa. See Gum Butea, under Gum. [Written also pales and palasa.]

To clasp or unite again.

Of or pertaining to rhinoplasty; as, a rhinoplastic operation.

Plastic surgery of the nose to correct deformity or to replace lost tissue. Tissue may be transplanted from the patient's cheek, forehead, arm, etc., or even from another person.

An instrument for measuring time by the running of sand. See Hourglass.

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

Pertaining to, or suiting, a scholar, a school, or schools; scholarlike; as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning. Sir K. Digby.

Scholastic.

In a scholastic manner.

The method or subtitles the schools of philosophy; scholastic formality; scholastic doctrines or philosophy. The spirit of the old scholasticism . . . spurned laborious investigation and slow induction. J. P. Smith.

Of the rank or degree below the best highest; inferior; second- rate; as, a second-class house; a second-class passage.

Formerly, a jocose term for a bank note greatly depreciated in value; also, for paper money of a denomination less than a dollar. [U. S.]

A disruptive discharge between a conductor traversed by an oscillatory current of high frequency (as lightning) and neighboring masses of metal, or between different parts of the same conductor.

To lash; to ply the whip to. [R.] King.

bensis) found in Southern Florida and the West Indies; -- so called because it grows in "slashes."

Marked or cut with a slash or slashes; deeply gashed; especially, having long, narrow openings, as a sleeve or other part of a garment, to show rich lining or under vesture. A gray jerkin, with scarlet and slashed sleeves. Sir W. Scott.

A machine for applying size to warp yarns.