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A two-masted, square-rigged vessel. Hermaphrodite brig, a two- masted vessel square-rigged forward and schooner-rigged aft. See Illustration in Appendix.

Of or pertaining to landed property. Cadastral survey, or Cadastral map, a survey, map, or plan on a large scale (Usually topographical map, which exaggerates the dimensions of houses and the breadth of roads and streams, for the sake of distinctness. Brande & C.

A map showing geographically, by shades or curves, statistics of various kinds; a statistical map.

One who make charts or maps.

The act business of forming chart's or maps.

A map; esp., a hydrographic or marine map; a map on which is projected a portion of water and the land which it surrounds, or by which it is surrounded, intended especially for the use of seamen; as, the United States Coast Survey charts; the English Admiralty charts.

Not mapped; uncharted; vague. Barlow.

An instrument for measuring charts or maps.

One who describes or makes a map of a district or region. "The chorographers of Italy." Sir T. Browne.

the mapping or description of a region or district. The chorography of their provinces. Sir T. Browne.

An apparatus by which a number of copies of written matter, maps, plans, etc., can be made; -- called also hectograph.

Complemental males (Zoöl.), peculiar small males living parasitically on the ordinary hermaphrodite individuals of certain barnacles.

pon a plane surface as if projected upon the surface of a cone; -- much used by makers of maps in Europe. -- Conical surface (Geom.), a surface described by a right line moving along any curve and always passing through a fixed point that is not in the plane of that curve.

n which a horizontal plane intersects a portion of ground, or the corresponding line in a map or chart.

his literary or artistic work, exclusively of all other persons. This right may be had in maps, charts, engravings, plays, and musical compositions, as well as in books.

in the tides; having high tide at the same time. Cotidal lines (Phys. Geog.), lines on a map passing through places that have high tide at the same time.

Having curls; curly; sinuous; wavy; as, curled maple (maple having fibers which take a sinnuous course). Curled hair (Com.), the hair of the manes and tails of horses, prepared for upholstery purposes. McElrath.

An order of Mammalia; the Cheiroptera. [Written also Dermaptera, and Dermatoptera.]

, different in function from the corresponding organs on the other side; as, dimidiate hermaphroditism.

rm between members of the same species, as when a plant has two kinds of flowers, both hermaphrodite (as in the partridge berry), or when there are two forms of one or both sexes of the same species of butterfly. Dimorphism is the condition of the appearance of the same species under two dissimilar forms. Darwin.…