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A female fortune teller. [Scot.]

A condition of impoverishment of the blood; a morbid state in which the red corpuscles, or other important elements of the blood, are deficient.

Of or pertaining to spanæmia; having impoverished blood.

Vegetable tissue composed of thin-walled rounded cells, -- a modification of parenchyma.

A peculiar sense organ found upon the exterior of most kinds of sea urchins, and consisting of an oval or sherical head surmounting a short pedicel. It is generally supposed to be an olfactory organ.

One of the nonsexual spores found in red algæ; a tetraspore.

Same as Spherulite.

Of or pertaining to the Sphyrænidæ, a family of marine fishes including the barracudas.

A division of sponges including those which have independent siliceous spicules.

A genus of shrubs or perennial herbs including the meadowsweet and the hardhack.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the meadowsweet (Spiræa); formerly, designating an acid which is now called salicylic acid.

A genus of Spirobacteria similar to Spirillum, but distinguished by its motility. One species, the Spirochæte Obermeyeri, is supposed to be the cause of relapsing fever.

The grand division of the animal kingdom which includes the sponges; -- called also Spongida, Spongiaria, Spongiozoa, and Porifera.

Same as Stomodæum.

A part of the alimentary canal. See under Mesenteron.

Beneath the sky; in the open air; specifically (Geol.), taking place on the earth's surface, as opposed to subaqueous.

The union, or drawing together into one syllable, of two vowels that are ordinarily separated in syllabification; synecphonesis; -- the opposite of diæresis.

See Tedium.

A denomination of money, in China, worth nearly six shillings sterling, or about a dollar and forty cents; also, a weight of one ounce and a third. [Written also tale.]

p. p. of Ta, to take, or a contraction of Taken. [Poetic & Scot.] Burns.