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A species of shell (Cypræa argus), beautifully variegated with spots resembling those in a peacock's tail.

A variety of the gazelle (Antilope, or Gazella, dorcas), found in Arabia and adjacent countries. (b) A squirrel-like Australian marsupial, a species of Petaurus. (c) A beautiful Brazilian toucan Ramphastos ariel).

A marine bivalve shell belonging to the genus Arca and its allies.

A bitter herb, probably the same as aster, or starwort. Spenser.

Of or pertaining to Atella, in ancient Italy; as, Atellan plays; farcical; ribald. -- n.

In the form of four unhusked filberts; as, an avellane cross.

A trifle; a thing of no importance. Rich trifles, serious bagatelles. Prior.

Having short, stiff hairs, often barbed at the point. Gray.

Barbellate with diminutive hairs or barbs.

Having a barrel; -- used in composition; as, a double-barreled gun.

An unidentified substance mentioned in the Bible (Gen. ii. 12, and Num. xi. 7), variously taken to be a gum, a precious stone, or pearls, or perhaps a kind of amber found in Arabia.

The order of Annulata which includes the leeches. See Hirudinea.

A cupping glass to which are attached a scarificator and an exhausting syringe. Dunglison.

An order of Nemertina, including the large leechlike worms (Malacobdella) often parasitic in clams.

,n.Same as Beadle.

One who lies with another in the same bed; a person who shares one's couch.

Anything in the form of a bell, as the cup or corol of a flower. "In a cowslip's bell I lie." Shak.

An infusorian of the family Vorticellidæ, common in fresh-water ponds.

A Brazilian leaf hopper (Bocydium tintinnabuliferum), remarkable for the four bell-shaped appendages of its thorax.

gle, or nearly a right angle, having its fulcrum at the apex of the angle. It is used in bell pulls and in changing the direction of bell wires at angles of rooms, etc., and also in machinery.