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Wet and dirty; slushy. [Prov. Eng.]

Solace. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A special class of small yachts developed in Germany under the patronage of Emperor William and Prince Henry of Prussia, and so called because these yachts do not conform to the restrictions for the regular classes established by the rules of the International Yacht Racing Union. In yachts of the sonderclass, as prescr…

Same as Spermoblast.

ermospore, each of which is destined to become a spermatozoid; a spermatocyte; a spermatoblast.

The protoplasm of the sperm cell. Haeckel.

To strike and dash about, as water, mud, etc.; to plash.

A guard in the front part of vehicle, to prevent splashing by a mud or water from the horse's heels; -- in the United States commonly called dashboard.

One who, or that which, splashes.

Full of dirty water; wet and muddy, so as be easily splashed about; slushy.

One of the cells which, in sponges, secrete the spongin, or the material of the horny fibers.

A small telescope for viewing distant terrestrial objects.

restoring or replacing the soft palate when it has been lost. Dunglison. -- Staph`y*lo*plas"tic, a.

One of a peculiar kind of internal buds, or germs, produced in the interior of certain Bryozoa and sponges, especially in the fresh- water species; -- also called winter buds.

Embracing the stem with its base; amplexicaul; as a leaf or petiole.

The solid or insoluble portion of the cell protoplasm. See Hygroplasm.

Of or pertaining to the operation of forming a mouth where the aperture has been contracted, or in any way deformed.

Plastic surgery of the mouth.

A glass vessel, usually cylindrical, filled with a solution which is sensitive to atmospheric changes, indicating by a clouded appearance, rain, snow, etc., and by clearness, fair weather.

of numerous species of delicate, usually pink, calcareous hydroid corals of the genus Stylaster.