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To comprise in, or reduce to, a summary; to present briefly. Chambers.

A division of monotremes which comprises the spiny ant-eaters of Australia and New Guinea. See Illust. under Echidna.

The division of cestode worms which comprises the tapeworms. See Tapeworm.

d ride a horse. -- To take in. (a) To inclose; to fence. (b) To encompass or embrace; to comprise; to comprehend. (c) To draw into a smaller compass; to contract; to brail or furl; as, to take in sail. (d) To cheat; to circumvent; to gull; to deceive. [Colloq.] (e) To admit; to receive; as, a leaky vessel will take in…

The body of the Jewish civil and canonical law not comprised in the Pentateuch.

Of or pertaining to a theorem or theorems; comprised in a theorem; consisting of theorems.

appendages, either bent beneath the body to form a spring, or projecting as bristles. It comprises the Cinura, or bristletails, and the Collembola, or springtails. Called also Thysanoura. See Lepisma, and Podura.

A suborder of Neuroptera usually having the wings covered with minute hairs. It comprises the caddice flies, and is considered by some to be a distinct order.

A division of chelonians which comprises Trionyx and allied genera; -- called also Trionychoides, and Trionychina.

An extensive group of mammals including all those that have hoofs. It comprises the Artiodactyla and Perissodactyla.

out having any college connected with it, or it may consist of but one college, or it may comprise an assemblage of colleges established in any place, with professors for instructing students in the sciences and other branches of learning. The present universities of Europe were, originally, the greater part of them, e…

An order of amphibians having the tail well developed and often long. It comprises the salamanders, tritons, and allied animals.

A tribe of Old World lizards which comprises the chameleon. They have long, flexible tongues.

A genus of carnivores which comprises the civets.

A Romanic people inhabiting that part of Belgium which comprises the provinces of Hainaut, Namur, Liége, and Luxembourg, and about one third of Brabant; also, the language spoken by this people. Used also adjectively. [Written also Wallons.] "A base Walloon . . . thrust Talbot with a spear." Shak. Walloon guard, the bo…

e wealth to lose. Shak. Each day new wealth, without their care, provides. Dryden. Wealth comprises all articles of value and nothing else. F. A. Walker. Active wealth. See under Active.

s, as distinguished from the prophetic and liturgical literature, and from the law. It is comprised chiefly in the books of Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiasticus, Ecclesiastes, and Wisdom of Solomon. The "wisdom" (Hokhmah) of these writings consists in detached sage utterances on concrete issues of life, without the effort at…

the heavens, 16º or 18º broad, in the middle of which is the ecliptic, or sun's path. It comprises the twelve constellations, which one constituted, and from which were named, the twelve signs of the zodiac.

A genus of birds that comprises the white-eyes. See White-eye.