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A group of fossil amphibians allied to the labyrinthodonts, having the head defended by bony, sculptured plates, as in some ganoid fishes.

al valve, and the optic nerves united by a chiasma. Many of the species are covered with bony plates, or with ganoid scales; others have cycloid scales.

A peculiar bony tissue beneath the enamel of a ganoid scale.

An aëriform fluid; -- a term used at first by chemists as synonymous with air, but since restricted to fluids supposed to be permanently elastic, as oxygen, hydrogen, etc., in distinction from vapors, as steam, which become liquid on a reduction of temperature. In present usage, since all of the supposed permanent gase…

Of or pertaining to Gascony, in France, or to the Gascons; also, braggart; swaggering. -- n.

Pertaining to gastromony.

ees called guelder-rose (Viburnum Opulus), cornel (Cornus sanguinea), and spindle tree (Euonymus Europæus).

A feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and gaudy day. [Oxford Univ.] Conybeare.

To deprive of anything essential. Bereft and gelded of his patrimony. Shak.

See Conys.

A lead-gray or grayish blue mineral with a metallic luster, consisting of sulphur, antimony, and lead, with a small proportion of arsenic.

Of or pertaining to geogony, or to the formation of the earth.

-- German sarsaparilla, a substitute for sarsaparilla extract. -- German sausage, a polony, or gut stuffed with meat partly cooked. -- German silver (Chem.), a silver-white alloy, hard and tough, but malleable and ductile, and quite permanent in the air. It contains nickel, copper, and zinc in varying proportions,…

An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony. [Obs.] Mede.

noid scales, a heterocercal tail, paired fins without an axis, fulcra on the fins, and a bony skeleton, with the vertebræ convex in front and concave behind, forming a ball and socket joint. See Ganoidel.

r; hence, one who fought with weapons in public, either on the occasion of a funeral ceremony, or in the arena, for public amusement.

organism (Volvox globator), once throught to be an animal, afterward supposed to be a colony of microscopic algæ. -- Globe of compression (Mil.), a kind of mine producing a wide crater; -- called also overcharged mine. -- Globe daisy (Bot.), a plant or flower of the genus Globularing, common in Europe. The flowers a…

Sometimes synonymous with Gelatin. [R.]

Given to gluttony; eating to excess; indulging the appetite; voracious; as, a gluttonous age. -- Glut"ton*ous*ly, adv. -- Glut"ton*ous*ness, n.

To bite in agony or rage. They gnawed their tongues for pain. Rev. xvi. 10.