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See Lady's thumb.

Same as Acraspeda.

A branch of a plumularian hydroid specially modified in structure for the protection of the gonothecæ.

One of a sect of Adamites in the fifteenth century; -- so called from one Picard of Flanders. See Adamite.

Applied to that class of literature in which the principal personage is the Spanish picaro, meaning a rascal, a knave, a rogue, an adventurer.

An extensive division of birds which includes the woodpeckers, toucans, trogons, hornbills, kingfishers, motmots, rollers, and goatsuckers. By some writers it is made to include also the cuckoos, swifts, and humming birds.

Of or pertaining to Picariæ. -- n.

One who plunders; especially, a plunderer of wrecks; a pirate; a corsair; a marauder; a sharper. Sir W. Temple.

An alkaloid extracted from jaborandi (Pilocarpus pennatifolius) as a white amorphous or crystalline substance which has a peculiar effect on the vasomotor system.

The right or privilege of fishing in another man's waters. Blackstone.

A public proclamation; a manifesto or edict issued by authority. [Obs.] All placards or edicts are published in his name. Howell.

Any pleurocarpic moss.

in which the pedicels or the capsules are from lateral archegonia; -- opposed to Ant: acrocarpous.

Of or pertaining to the pleura and pericardium.

A stem, or footstalk, supporting the fruit.

Composed of several or numerous carpels; -- said of such fruits as the orange.

Bearing fruit repeatedly, or year after year.

An apothecary. [Obs.]

An apothecary. [Obs.]

nother; held by courtesy; liable to be changed or lost at the pleasure of another; as, precarious privileges. Addison.