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ery; heavy calamity. Thus saying, from her side the fatal key, Sad instrument of all our woe, she took. Milton. [They] weep each other's woe. Pope.

Beset or overwhelmed with woe; immersed in grief or sorrow; woeful. Chaucer. So woe-begone was he with pains of love. Fairfax.

Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted; wretched; unhappy; sad. How many woeful widows left to bow To sad disgrace! Daniel.

In a woeful manner; sorrowfully; mournfully; miserably; dolefully.

The quality or state of being woeful; misery; wretchedness.

Woeful. [Obs.] Langhorne.

One who wooes; one who courts or solicits in love; a suitor. "A thriving wooer." Gibber.

One who injures another, or who does wrong.

A genus of endogenous plants, native to Australia, having a thick, sometimes arborescent, stem, and long grasslike leaves. See Grass tree.

Having two toes in front and two behind, as the trogons and woodpeckers.

A hippopotamus.

A peculiar larval stage of certain decapod Crustacea, especially of crabs and certain Anomura. [Written also zoæa.]

An optical toy, in which figures made to revolve on the inside of a cylinder, and viewed through slits in its circumference, appear like a single figure passing through a series of natural motions as if animated or mechanically moved.

A combining form from Gr. zwo^,n an animal, as in zoögenic, zoölogy, etc.

Pertaining to zoöchemistry.

Animal chemistry; particularly, the description of the chemical compounds entering into the composition of the animal body, in distinction from biochemistry.

Animal chemistry; zoöchemistry. Dunglison.

One of the small green granulelike bodies found in the interior of certain stentors, hydras, and other invertebrates.

A cyst formed by certain Protozoa and unicellular plants which the contents divide into a large number of granules, each of which becomes a germ.

The common support, often branched, of certain species of social Infusoria.