Search the Dictionary

A division of Mollusca having slender, cirriform appendages near the mouth; the Scaphopoda.

See Craunch.

A group of nudibranch mollusks.

Having concealed or rudimentary gills.

Having the gills around the margin of the body, as certain limpets.

A group of nudibranch mollusks without special gills.

Having the skin modified to serve as a gill.

An order of cephalopods which includes those with two gills, an apparatus for emitting an inky fluid, and either eight or ten cephalic arms bearing suckers or hooks, as the octopi and squids. See Cephalopoda.

One of the Dibranchiata.

See Disfranchise, Disfranchisement.

To divest of a branch or branches; to tear off. Shak.

To disfranchise; to deprive of the rights of a citizen. -- Dis`en*fran"chise*ment, n.

To deprive of a franchise or chartered right; to dispossess of the rights of a citizen, or of a particular privilege, as of voting, holding office, etc. Sir William Fitzwilliam was disfranchised. Fabyan (1509). He was partially disfranchised so as to be made incapable of taking part in public affairs. Thirlwall.…

The act of disfranchising, or the state disfranchised; deprivation of privileges of citizenship or of chartered immunities. Sentenced first to dismission from the court, and then to disfranchisement and expulsion from the colony. Palfrey.

A division of chætopod annelids in which the branchiæ are along the back, on each side, or on the parapodia. [See Illusts. under Annelida and Chætopoda.]

Having branchiæ along the back; belonging to the Dorsibranchiata. -- n.

To enfranchise.

Of or pertaining to the Elasmobranchii. -- n.

Of or pertaining to Elasmobranchii. -- n.

A subclass of fishes, comprising the sharks, the rays, and the Chimæra. The skeleton is mainly cartilaginous.