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To praise greatly or extravagantly. Goldsmith.

A remarkable ganoid fish (Polypterus bichir) found in the Nile and other African rivers. See Brachioganoidei.

A trinket; a jewel; -- a word applied to anything small and of elegant workmanship.

Of or pertaining to the two sides of a central area or organ, or of a central axis; as, bilateral symmetry in animals, where there is a similarity of parts on the right and left sides of the body.

The chemistry of living organisms; the chemistry of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.

A doctrine that the genesis or production of living organisms can take place only through the agency of living germs or parents; -- opposed to abiogenesis.

Pertaining to psychical phenomena in their relation to the living organism or to the general phenomena of life.

The physical phenomena of organized bodies, in opposition to their organic or vital phenomena.

The classification of living organisms according to their structural character; taxonomy.

nera, inhabiting New Guinea and the adjacent islands. The males have brilliant colors, elegant plumes, and often remarkable tail feathers.

To puncture, abrade, or sting with an organ (of some insects) used in taking food.

Odd in manner or appearance; fantastic; whimsical; extravagant; grotesque. C. Kingsley.

An organization composed originally of Chinese rebels that had been driven into Tonkin by the suppression of the Taiping rebellion, but later increased by bands of pirates and adventurers. It took a prominent part in fighting the French during their hostilities with Anam, 1873-85.

he United States, September 24, 1869, and September 18, 1873, on which financial panics began.

To blow; to blow on a trumpet. [Obs.] Toke his blake trumpe faste And gan to puffen and to blaste. Chaucer.

The structureless, protoplasmic tissue of the embryo; the primitive basis of an organ yet unformed, from which it grows.

ght; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp. The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink. Wordsworth. The sun blinked fair on pool and stream . Sir W. Scott.

A piece of hard wood (as mahogany or cherry) on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted to make it type high.

; to flower or be in flower. A flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom. Milton.

The flower of a plant, or the essential organs of reproduction, with their appendages; florescence; bloom; the flowers of a plant, collectively; as, the blossoms and fruit of a tree; an apple tree in blossom.