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llars have done great damage to fruit, shade, and forest trees of many kinds. The male gypsy moth is yellowish brown, the female white, and larger than the male. In both sexes the wings are marked by dark lines and a dark lunule. The caterpillars, when full- grown, have a grayish mottled appearance, with blue tubercles…

The state of a gypsy.

A labiate plant (the Lycopus Europæus). Gypsies are said to stain their skin with its juice.

Contraction of only one ventricle of the heart.

Pertaining to a line of eleven syllables.

A metrical line of eleven syllables. J. Warton.

A cotquean; a man who intermeddles with women's concerns.

. . because every man took what opinion he pleased, each several opinion was called a heresy; which signified no more than a private opinion, without reference to truth or falsehood. Hobbes.

One of a mystical sect of the Greek Church in the fourteenth century; a quietist. Brande & C.

See Homogeny.

Developing, in the case of multicellular organisms, from the same embryonic systems into which the secondary unit (gastrula or plant enbryo) differentiates.

Pertaining to, or suggestive of, a horse, or of horse racing; as, horsy manners; garments of fantastically horsy fashions. [Colloq.]

A housewife or housekeeper. [Obs.]

A treatise upon, or a history and description of, the water of the earth.

Same as Dropsy.

the assuming of false appearance of virtue or religion; a simulation of goodness. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy. Rambler. Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue. La Rochefoucauld (Trans. ).

A disease resembling hysteria in its nature, and characterized by the occurrence of epileptiform convulsions, which can often be controlled or excited by pressure on the ovaries, and upon other definite points in the body. -- Hys`ter*o*ep`i*lep"tic, a.

stitution; that temperament, or state of constitution, which is peculiar to a person; idiosyncrasy.

ic belonging to, and distinguishing, an individual; characteristic susceptibility; idiocrasy; eccentricity. The individual mind . . . takes its tone from the idiosyncrasies of the body. I. Taylor.

Of peculiar temper or disposition; belonging to one's peculiar and individual character.