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Work after manner of a hurdle.

A liquor consisting of honey diluted in water, and after fermentation called mead.

, which by being elevated or depressed cause the boat, when going ahead, to sink or rise, after the manner of an aëroplane.

e unicellular organisms temporarily inclose themselves, from which they emerge unchanged, after a period of drought or deficiency of food. In some instances, a process of spore formation seems to occur within such cysts.

heat of a fire was distributed to rooms above. This contrivance, first used in bath, was afterwards adopted in private houses.

from the posterior side of the stem of the contour feathers of many birds; -- called also aftershaft. See Illust. of Feather.

One of the barbs of the hypoptilum, or aftershaft of a feather. See Feather.

The stem of an aftershaft or hypoptilum. [Written also hyporachis.]

Having the leaves expand after the flowers have opened. Henslow.

In a iambic manner; after the manner of iambics.

A plan or purpose of action; intention; design. I shortly afterwards set off for that capital, with an idea of undertaking while there the translation of the work. W. Irving.

To practice idolatry. [R.] To idolize after the manner of Egypt. Fairbairn.

blic disgrace or dishonor; reproach; infamy. Their generals have been received with honor after their defeat; yours with ignominy after conquest. Addison. Vice begins in mistake, and ends in ignominy. Rambler. Ignominy is the infliction of such evil as is made dishonorable, or the deprivation of such good as is made ho…

shaupt, professor of canon law at Ingolstadt, which spread rapidly for a time, but ceased after a few years.

Imaginal disks (Zoöl.), masses of hypodermic cells, carried by the larvæ of some insects after leaving the egg, from which masses the wings and legs of the adult are subsequently formed.

Formed after a model, pattern, or original. This temple, less in form, with equal grace, Was imitative of the first in Thrace. Dryden.

amilton. Immediate amputation (Surg.), an amputation performed within the first few hours after an injury, and before the the effects of the shock have passed away.

eror; -- originally an appellation of honor by which Roman soldiers saluted their general after an important victory. Subsequently the title was conferred as a recognition of great military achievements by the senate, whence it carried wiht it some special privileges. After the downfall of the Republic it was assumed b…

ch the President of the United States is inaugurated, the 4th of March in every year next after a year divisible by four.

prickly pear. -- Indian file, single file; arrangement of persons in a row following one after another, the usual way among Indians of traversing woods, especially when on the war path. -- Indian fire, a pyrotechnic composition of sulphur, niter, and realgar, burning with a brilliant white light. -- Indian grass (Bo…