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, Palæmonetes, and Peneus, and are much used as food. The common English prawn in Palæmon serratus.

a sickle; -- in a specific sense, distinguished from a sickle by a blade keen instead of serrated.

cles or sinews. Horror . . . all his joints relaxed. Milton. Nor served it to relax their serried files. Milton.

Having a tooth or teeth like those of a saw; serrate.

Any plant of the composite genus Serratula; -- so named from the serrated leaves of most of the species.

An arctic seal (Lobodon carcinophaga), having the molars serrated; -- called also crabeating seal.

((Zoöl.) (a) A large marine food fish (Serranus, or Centropristis, atrarius) which abounds on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It is dark bluish, with black bands, and more or less varied with small white spots and blotches. Called also, locally, blue bass, black sea bass, blackfish, bluefish, and black perch.…

A large serranoid food fish (Centropomus undecimalis) found on both coasts of America; -- called also robalo.

The Serrifera.

To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened. A gathering and serring of the spirits together to resist, maketh the teeth to set hard one against another. Bacon.

d on a tang. The sickle has one side of the blade notched, so as always to sharpen with a serrated edge. Cf. Reaping hook, under Reap. When corn has once felt the sickle, it has no more benefit from the sunshine. Shak.

A ridge of mountain and craggy rocks, with a serrated or irregular outline; as, the Sierra Nevada. The wild sierra overhead. Whitter.

Any serranoid fish of the genus Rhypticus; -- so called from the soapy feeling of its skin.

A genus of fossil whales belonging to the Phocodontia; -- so called because their are serrated, like a shark's.

e. It is one of the earliest flowers of spring. -- Squirrel fish (Zoöl.) (a) A sea bass (Serranus fascicularis) of the Southern United States. (b) The sailor's choice (Diplodus rhomboides). (c) The redmouth, or grunt. (d) A market fish of Bermuda (Holocentrum Ascensione). -- Squirrel grass (Bot.), a pestiferous grass…

A cuban trogon (Priotelus temnurus) having a serrated bill and a tail concave at the end.

ting species are tropical. -- Tree fish (Zoöl.), a California market fish (Sebastichthys serriceps). -- Tree frog. (Zoöl.) (a) Same as Tree toad. (b) Any one of numerous species of Old World frogs belonging to Chiromantis, Rhacophorus, and allied genera of the family Ranidæ. Their toes are furnished with suckers for…

ave been found in the Gulf States. The species had very long and slender bodies and broad serrated teeth. See Phocodontia.