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A gnathopodite or maxilliped. See Maxilliped.

Any leglike appendage of a crustacean, when modified wholly, or in part, to serve as a jaw, esp. one of the maxillipeds.

One of a pair of broad plates, developed from the outer maxillipeds of crabs, and forming a cover for the other mouth organs.

t with the leptocardians and marsipobranchs (Cyclostoma), which lack them. [Written also Gnathostomata.]

The horney covering of the lower mandible of a bird.

A small gnat.

The aquatic larva of a gnat; -- called also, colloquially, wiggler.

Naturally mild in temper; not easily provoked.

With maldness of temper.

See Garnet.

Mannite; -- so called because found in the pomegranate.

See Staurolite.

To cook, as macaroni, in a savory juice or sauce until juice is absorbed and a crisp surface forms.

To govern. [Obs.] Cockeram.

The act of governing; government [Obs.] I. Watts.

Governing. [Obs.]

Pertaining to a governor, or to government.

To wander; to go astray; to err; to blunder; -- used of mental processes. [R.] Byron.

The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; error; mistake; a blunder. This must have been the hallucination of the transcriber. Addison.

One whose judgment and acts are affected by hallucinations; one who errs on account of his hallucinations. N. Brit. Rev.