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the genus Picumnus and allied genera. Their tail feathers are not stiff and sharp at the tips, as in ordinary woodpeckers.

The first antiphon of the vespers for the dead.

g (Bot.), an aromatic Australian tree (Atherosperma moschata), whose numerous carpels are tipped with long plumose persistent styles.

To multiply; to make manifold. [R.]

An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer. [Cant, U. S.]

Multiplying or magnifying sound. -- n.

The art of multiplying or magnifying sounds.

The act or practice of multiplying copies of one's own handwriting, or of manuscripts, by printing from stone, -- a species of lithography.

An instrument for multiplying copies of a writing; a manifold writer; a copying machine.

A polyscope, or multiplying glass.

A glass through which objects appear multiplied, but diminished in size. [R.]

Having or producing two or more phases; multiphase; as, a polyphase machine, a machine producing two or more pressure waves of electro-motive force, differing in phase; a polyphase current.

A machine generating more than one pressure wave; a multiphaser.

Having a multiplicity of sounds.

A proficient in the art of multiplying sounds; a ventriloquist.

Multiplicity of sounds, as in the reverberations of an echo.

A glass which makes a single object appear as many; a multiplying glass. Hutton.

Characterized by polysyndeton, or the multiplication of conjunctions. -- Pol`y*syn*det"ic*al*ly, adv.

The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants.

en the body is inflated. See Diodon, and Globefish. -- Porcupine grass (Bot.), a grass (Stipa spartea) with grains bearing a stout twisted awn, which, by coiling and uncoiling through changes in moisture, propels the sharp-pointed and barbellate grain into the wool and flesh of sheep. It is found from Illinois westwar…