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To pare off, as nails, the hoof, etc. [R.]

yllopod crustacean (Chirocephalus diaphanus); -- so called from its delicate colors, transparency, and graceful motions. The name is sometimes applied to similar American species. -- Fairy stone (Paleon.), an echinite.

insion from innocence or goodness. Specifically: The first apostasy; the act of our first parents in eating the forbidden fruit; also, the apostasy of the rebellious angels.

An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a sophism.

hat which is evidently false; an assertion or statement the falsity of which is plainly apparent; -- opposed to truism.

y of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as the case may be, lodgers or boarders.

One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent. A wise son maketh a glad father. Prov. x. 1.

e derivative of naphthalene. They are stable, but require protection from moisture. As prepared it is a compressed cylinder of the explosive, filled with loose powder of the same composition, all inclosed in waterproof wrappers. It is used for mining.

a joyous, anniversary. The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord. Ex. xiii. 6. Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover. Luke ii. 41.

The act by which, either in animals or plants, material prepared by the generative organs the female organism is brought in contact with matter from the organs of the male, so that a new organism results; impregnation; fertilization.

Having transparent spots, as the wings of certain butterflies.

A kind of marble or alabaster, sometimes used for windows on account of its transparency.

1. To repair; to prepare; to put in order. [Prov. Eng.] Carlyle.

A screen for the combatants in ships. [Obs.] Up with your fights, and your nettings prepare. Dryden. Running fight, a fight in which the enemy is continually chased; also, one which continues without definite end or result.

Vegetable fiber, as jute or ramie, prepared for manufacture.

Of or pertaining to a son or daughter; becoming to a child in relation to his parents; as, filial obedience.

The relationship of a son or child to a parent, esp. to a father. The relation of paternity and filiation. Sir M. Hale.

The act of murdering a son or a daughter; also, parent who commits such a murder.

Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it. Back filling. (Arch.) See under Back, a.

To make fine; to dress finically. [Obs.] Hath so pared and finified them [his feet.] B. Jonson.