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A genus of dipterous insects whose young (called rat-tailed larvæ) are remarkable for their long tapering tail, which spiracles at the tip, and for their ability to live in very impure and salt waters; -- also called drone fly.

An insect in the larval state; a caterpillar; a larva.

Having the form of a caterpillar; -- said of insect larvæ.

One of a sect among the Jews in the time of our Savior, remarkable for their strictness and abstinence.

An order of insects, including the earwig. The anterior wings are short, in the form of elytra, while the posterior wings fold up beneath them. See Earwig.

fusion of Lutherans and Calvinists in Germany in 1817. -- Evangelical Union, a religion sect founded in Scotland in 1843 by the Rev. James Morison; -- called also Morisonians.

Having but one joint; -- said of certain insects.

To cut off or out. [Obs.] See Exsect. Harvey.

See Exsection.

expanded in diameter while boring. -- Expanding pulley (Mach.), a pulley so made, as in sections, that its diameter can be increased or diminished.

Destitute of true, or red, blood, as insects.

Without, or apparently without, a scutellum; -- said of certain insects.

ratively; to destroy wholly; as, to extirpate weeds; to extirpate a tumor; to extirpate a sect; to extirpate error or heresy.

Inserted exterior to the eyes; -- said of the antennæ of certain insects.

One of the numerous small eyes which make up the compound eyes of insects and crustaceans.

harrow, and break up, as land, without seeding, for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects, and rendering it mellow; as, it is profitable to fallow cold, strong, clayey land.

One of afanatical Antinomian sect originating in Holland, and existing in England about 1580, called the Family of Love, who held that religion consists wholly in love.

t the same pivot, so as when opened to radiate from the center and assume the figure of a section of a circle.

ins arranged in a radiating manner; -- said of certain leaves, and of the winfs of some insects.

thereof, seemeth well cut out and proportioned to signify what is meant thereby, even the sectaries of our age. Fuller (1660). Fanatics are governed rather by imagination than by judgment. Stowe.