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An East Indian carnivorous mammal (Prionodon gracilis), resembling the civets, but without scent pouches. It is handsomely spotted.

The military force of the whole nation, consisting of all men able to bear arms. The national fyrd or militia. J. R. Green.

father's or mother's uncle.

A stinking tobacco.

A band of nervous or fibrous matter connecting different parts of the brain; as, the peduncles of the cerebellum; the peduncles of the pineal gland.

Having a peduncle; supported on a peduncle; pedunculate.

Of or pertaining to a peduncle; growing from a peduncle; as, a peduncular tendril.

A division of Cirripedia, including the stalked or goose barnacles.

Having a peduncle; growing on a peduncle; as, a pedunculate flower; a pedunculate eye, as in a lobster.

The quality or state of being redundant; superfluity; superabundance; excess.

Exceeding what is natural or necessary; superabundant; exuberant; as, a redundant quantity of bile or food. Notwithstanding the redundant oil in fishes, they do not increase fat so much as flesh. Arbuthnot.

In a refundant manner.

A tribe of ungulates which includes the horse, ass, and related species, constituting the family Equidæ.

Solipedous.

Same as Soliped.

Solipedous.

Somewhat hooked or curved.

Situated beneath the peduncle; as, the subpeduncular lobe of the cerebellum.

Supported on, or growing from, a very short stem; having a short peduncle.

abæus, Copris, Phanæus, and allied genera. The female lays her eggs in a globular mass of dung which she rolls by means of her hind legs to a burrow excavated in the earth in which she buries it.