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Having nearly the whole surface of the skin covered with down; dasypædic; -- said of the young of certain birds.

A form of blood poisoning produced by the absorption into the blood of morbid matters usually originating in a wound or local inflammation. It is characterized by the development of multiple abscesses throughout the body, and is attended with irregularly recurring chills, fever, profuse sweating, and exhaustion.…

Of or pertaining to pyæmia; of the nature of pyæmia.

Inquire; question; see; -- used to signify doubt or to suggest investigation.

Same as Questor.

Raphaelesque.

The order of elasmobranch fishes which includes the sawfishes, skates, and rays; -- called also Rajæ, and Rajii.

Like Raphael's works; in Raphael's manner of painting.

The principles of painting introduced by Raphael, the Italian painter.

One who advocates or adopts the principles of Raphaelism.

An order of birds in which the wings are small, rudimentary, or absent, and the breastbone is destitute of a keel. The ostrich, emu, and apteryx are examples.

Remains of the dead; organic remains; relics.

A soft, compact variety of talc,, being an altered pyroxene. It is often worked in a lathe into inkstands and other articles.

A group of spiders which spin irregular webs; -- called also Retitelariæ.

Rhetian.

Pertining to, or of the same horizon as, certain Mesozoic strata of the Rhetian Alps. These strata are regarded as closing the Triassic period. See the Chart of Geology.

A variety of the mineral cyanite.

A suborder of struthious birds including the rheas.

Same as Sabianism.

Same as Sabianism.