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Thick-skinned; not sensitive to ridicule.

Of or pertaining to the placoderms; like the placoderms.

Same as Placodermi.

A fleshy covering of a seed, lying between the external and internal integuments.

A disease of adults, characterized by a diffuse rigidity and hardness of the skin.

The stony corals; the Madreporaria.

Same as Holothurioidea.

Situated immediately below the epidermis.

Of or pertaining to the cutaneous manifestations of syphilis.

Insufficiently furnished with men; short-handed.

Having masts smaller than the usual dimension; -- said of vessels. Totten.

A master subordinate to the principal master; an assistant master.

One who is not a match for another. Fuller.

Ichthyosis.

A class of Echinodermata including the true starfishes. The rays vary in number and always have ambulacral grooves below. The body is starshaped or pentagonal.

ice formerly corresponded to that of sheriff, but now corresponds to that of an English alderman.

An alderman of a corporation. [Eng.] Ashmole.

ery numerous and mostly parasitic upon birds. -- Bird mite (Zoöl.), a small mite (genera Dermanyssus, Dermaleichus and allies) parasitic upon birds. The species are numerous. -- Bird of passage, a migratory bird. -- Bird spider (Zoöl.), a very large South American spider (Mygale avicularia). It is said sometimes to…

The botfly or gadfly of cattle (Hypoderma bovis). See Gadfly.

nd turtles, perculiar in having a part of the vertebræ, ribs, and sternum united with the dermal plates so as to form a firm shell. The jaws are covered by a horny beak. See Reptilia; also, Illust. in Appendix.