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A genus of fresh-water or river turtles which have the shell imperfectly developed and covered with a soft leathery skin. They are noted for their agility and rapacity. Called also soft tortoise, soft-shell tortoise, and mud turtle.

th. The primitive stage is that of simple cones, as in reptiles. The simple cone then developed a smaller cone in front and another behind. Next, a cingulum was developed, and the three cones became arranged in a triangle, the two smaller cusps having moved to the outer side in upper and to the inner in lower molars. T…

larval form of many annelids, mollusks, and bryozoans, in which a circle of cilia is developed around the anterior end.

Happening at a bad time; unseasonable; inconvenient. A. Trollope.

A promise or pledge; a guarantee. A. Trollope.

Not fledged; not feathered; hence, not fully developed; immature. Dryden.

To open; to expand; to become disclosed or developed. The wind blows cold While the morning doth unfold. J. Fletcher.

Something not true; a false statement. [Recent & R.] A. Trollope.

An order of amphibians having the tail well developed and often long. It comprises the salamanders, tritons, and allied animals.

The organ of a female mammal in which the young are developed previous to birth; the womb.

The place of meeting of two slopes of a roof, which have their plates running in different directions, and form on the plan a reëntrant angle.

ndyke collar or cape, a broad collar or cape of linen and lace with a deep pointed or scalloped edge, worn lying on the shoulders; - - so called from its appearance in pictures by Vandyke. -- Vandyke edge, an edge having ornamental triangular points.

essa and allied genera. Many of these species have the edges of the wings irregularly scalloped.

To tend downward; to bend; to slope; as, a hill verges to the north. Our soul, from original instinct, vergeth towards him as its center. Barrow. I find myself verging to that period of life which is to be labor and sorrow. Swift.

The slope of a side of a mountain chain; hence, the general slope of a country; aspect.

A garment or garments; a robe; clothing; dress; apparel; vestment; covering; envelope. Piers Plowman. Approach, and kiss her sacred vesture's hem. Milton. Rocks, precipices, and gulfs, appareled with a vesture of plants. Bentley. There polished chests embroidered vestures graced. Pope.

Covered with vesture or garments; clothed; enveloped. We be vestured with poor cloth. Ld. Berners.

Having the nature, properties, or qualities, of an adult man; characteristic of developed manhood; hence, masterful; forceful; specifically, capable of begetting; -- opposed to womanly, feminine, and puerile; as, virile age, virile power, virile organs.

The quality or state of being virile; developed manhood; manliness; specif., the power of procreation; as, exhaustion. "Virility of visage." Holland.

Developed in manhood; hence, able to beget; marriageable. [Obs.] Being not of ripe years, not viripotent. Holinshed.