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The cephalata.

One of the Cephalopoda.

The highest class of Mollusca.

Belonging to, or resembling, the cephalopods.

One of the generic names of the gigantic ray (Manta birostris), known as devilfish and sea devil. It is common on the coasts of South Carolina, Florida, and farther south. Some of them grow to enormous size, becoming twenty feet of more across the body, and weighing more than a ton.

The process of forming an artificial tip or part of a lip, by using for the purpose a piece of healthy tissue taken from some neighboring part.

See Ch.

A myriapod of the order Chilopoda.

s. They have a single pair of elongated legs attached laterally to each segment; well developed jaws; and a pair of thoracic legs converted into poison fangs. They are insectivorous, very active, and some species grow to the length of a foot.

See Bilirubin.

Concerned in the formation of chyle; as, the chylopoetic organs.

A small slice of meat; a piece of flesh. God knows thou art a collop of my flesh. Shak. Sweetbread and collops were with skewers pricked. Dryden.

Having ridges or bunches of flesh, like collops. With that red, gaunt, and colloped neck astrain. R. Browning.

A suckerlike organ at the base of the abdomen of insects belonging to the Collembola.

See Colophony.

A colorless, oily liquid, formerly obtained by distillation of colophony. It is regarded as a polymeric form of terebenthene. Called also diterebene.

e of publication, printer's name, etc., formerly placed on the last page of a book. The colophon, or final description, fell into disuse, and . . . the title page had become the principal direct means of identifying the book. De Morgan. The book was uninjured from title page to colophon. Sir W. Scott.…

A coarsely granular variety of garnet.

Rosin.

An arthropod.