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'' (Gruyère, Switzerland. It is a firm cheese containing numerous cells, and is known in the United States as Schweitzerkäse.

allow liquor greedily; to drink much or frequently. Those that came to guzzle in his wine cellar. Milton. Well-seasoned bowls the gossip's spirits raise, Who, while she guzzles, chats the doctor's praise. Roscommon. To fat the guzzling hogs with floods of whey. Gay.

(Biol.) A cytode without a proper cell wall, but with a nucleus. Haeckel.

A cytode without either a cell wall or a nucleus. Haeckel.

A cell or mass of protoplasm devoid of an envelope, as a white blood corpuscle.

An outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated. Internal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily (Nuphar).

n system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.

The quality of being handsome. Handsomeness is the mere animal excellence, beauty the mere imaginative. Hare.

x, and the like, in distinction from pine, poplar, hemlock, etc.- In hard condition, in excellent condition for racing; having firm muscles;-said of race horses.

n a deck or floor, affording passage from one deck or story to another; the entrance to a cellar.

Elevation in excellence of any kind, as in power, learning, arts; also, an advanced degree of social rank; preëminence or distinction in society; prominence. Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts. R. Browning. All would in his power hold, all make his subjects. Chapman.

A fossil coral of the genus Heliolites, having twelve-rayed cells. It is found in the Silurian rocks.

e, England. The Herefords are good working animals, and their beef-producing quality is excellent.

A cell annexed to an abbey, for the use of a hermit. Howell.

Unequal growth of a cell, or of a part of a plant.

A cell larger than the others, and of different appearance, occurring in certain algæ related to nostoc.

parts, supposed to be effected in thousands of years, by the gradual displacement of germ cells.

Germ history of cells, and of the tissues composed of cells. Haeckel.

The tribal history of cells, a division of morphophyly. Haeckel.

An eruptive disease (Varicella globularis), allied to the chicken pox.