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enerative tissue primitively alike in both sexes, but giving rise to either an ovary or a testis; a generative gland; a germ gland. Wiedersheim.

s, allied to the Ammonites. The earliest forms are found in the Devonian formation, the latest, in the Triassic.

A large land tortoise (Testudo Carilina) of the Southern United States, which makes extensive burrows.

hawk or other fowl. And all the way, most like a brutish beast,gorge, that all did him detest. Spenser.

Like gossamer; flimsy. The greatest master of gossamery affectation. De Quincey.

ularly in the digestive organs. It may also attack internal organs, as the stomach, the intestines, etc. Dunglison.

Tapered; -- said of a bird's tail when the outer feathers are shortest, and the others successively longer. Graduated tube, bottle, cap, or glass, a vessel, usually of glass, having horizontal marks upon its sides, with figures, to indicate the amount of the contents at the several levels. -- Graduated spring (Railroa…

Of large size or extent; great; extensive; hence, relatively great; greatest; chief; principal; as, a grand mountain; a grand army; a grand mistake. "Our grand foe, Satan." Milton. Making so bold . . . to unseal Their grand commission. Shak.

granular rock, consisting of feldspar and quartz intimately mixed; -- sometimes called whitestone, and leptynite.

apple, as in wrestling; to close; to seize one another. To grapple with, to enter into contest with, resolutely and courageously. And in my standard bear the arms of York, To grapple with the house of Lancaster. Shak.

Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines; -- chiefly used in the plural.

To examine; to test; to sound. [Obs.] Chaucer. Felix gropeth him, thinking to have a bribe. Genevan Test. (Acts xxiv. ).

aining to disciplinary exercises for the intellect; athletic; as, gymnastic exercises, contests, etc.

iew to protect the right to personal liberty; also, one to bring a prisoner into court to testify in a pending trial. Bouvier.

A story, anecdote, or legend in the Talmud, to explain or illustrate the text of the Old Testament. [Written also hadaga.]

The last of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament, or that portion not contained in the Law and the Prophets. It comprises Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Canticles, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Chronicles.

s' Company and other assay offices, in the United Kingdom, on gold and silver articles, attesting their purity. Also used figuratively; -- as, a word or phrase lacks the hall-mark of the best writers.

of progress. Without any halt they marched. Clarendon. [Lovers] soon in passion's war contest, Yet in their march soon make a halt. Davenant.

A hold in which an arm of one contestant is held twisted and bent behind his back by his opponent.

either right or left. On this hand and that hand, were hangings. Ex. xxxviii. 15. The Protestants were then on the winning hand. Milton.