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hort telescope with concave eye lenses of low power, usually made double, that is, with a tube and set of glasses for each eye; a lorgnette; -- so called because adapted for use at the opera, theater, etc. -- Opera hat, a gentleman's folding hat. -- Opera house, specifically, a theater devoted to the performance of o…

Any lid-shaped structure closing the aperture of a tube or shell.

pitch, and a compass of three octaves; -- now generally supplanted by bass and contrabass tubas. Moore (Encyc. of Music).

An American ranunculaceous plant (Hidrastis Canadensis), having a yellow tuberous root; -- also called yellowroot, golden seal, etc.

ate zone, and consisting of about eighty species. They are perennial herbs growing from a tuber (beside which is usually found the last year's tuber also), and are valued for their showy flowers. See Orchidaceous.

A genus of small oceanic fishes, remarkable for the large conical tubercles which cover the under surface.

A mouth or aperture, as of a tube, pipe, etc.; an opening; as, the orifice of an artery or vein; the orifice of a wound. Shak. Etna was bored through the top with a monstrous orifice. Addison.

One of the tubes of which the ovaries of most insects are composed.

A tube, or duct, for the passage of ova from the ovary to the exterior of the animal or to the part where further development takes place. In mammals the oviducts are also called Fallopian tubes.

One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. See Illust. of Teredo.

One of the lateral appendages of an annelid; -- called also foot tubercle.

A small body containing convoluted tubules, situated near the epididymis in man and some other animals, and supposed to be a remnant of the anterior part of the Wolffian body.

A small mass of tubules near the ovary in some animals, and corresponding with the parepididymis of the male.

A group of tubules, a remnant of the Wolffian body, often found near the ovary or oviduct; the epoöphoron.

The auricle of the ear; also, the fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.

One of the circle of tubercles which form the bur on a deer's antler.

A retort or still having a curved tube or tubes leading back from the head to the body for continuous condensation and redistillation.

Around the bronchi or bronchial tubes; as, the peribronchial lymphatics.

Situated around the radii, or radial tubes, of a radiate.

Obstinate in the wrong; stubborn; intractable; hence, wayward; vexing; contrary. To so perverse a sex all grace is vain. Dryden.