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One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. See Illust. of Teredo.

One of the bifurcations of the brachial plates of a crinoid.

One of the numerous small hollow processes of the integument between the plates of starfishes.

A high, bleak plateau or district, with stunted trees, and cold, damp atmosphere, as in the Andes, in South America.

A low wall, especially one serving to protect the edge of a platform, roof, bridge, or the like.

A special plate situated on the sides of the mesothorax and metathorax of certain insects.

One of the special scales, or plates, covering the back of the head in certain reptiles and fishes.

e pinch me like a pasty." Shak. "Apple pasties." Dickens. A large pasty baked in a pewter platter. Sir W. Scott.

as a steam boiler, consisting of soft material, as putty, covered and held in place by a plate bolted or riveted fast.

A kind of platform with a parapet, usually of an oval form, and generally erected in marshy grounds to cover a gate of a fortified place. [R.]

A plate. [Obs.]

A plate. See Paten. "Inlaid with patines of bright gold." Shak.

A dish or plate of metal or earthenware; a patella.

o put in pawn; to pledge; as, to pawn one's watch. And pawned the last remaining piece of plate. Dryden.

A tribe of Indians (called also Loups) who formerly occupied the region of the Platte river, but now live mostly in the Indian Territory. The term is often used in a wider sense to include also the related tribes of Rickarees and Wichitas. Called also Pani.

A breastplate, esp. that worn by the Jewish high person.

A genus of small fishes, having large pectoral fins, and the body covered with hard, bony plates. Several species are known from the East Indies and China.

wheel arranged to roll along over the ground, with an apparatus of clockwork, and a dial plate upon which the distance traveled is shown by an index. See Odometer.

The breastplate of a horse's armor or harness. [Spelt also peitrel.] See Poitrel. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A treatise on philosophy. Philosophy of the Academy, that of Plato, who taught his disciples in a grove in Athens called the Academy. -- Philosophy of the Garden, that of Epicurus, who taught in a garden in Athens. -- Philosophy of the Lyceum, that of Aristotle, the founder of the Peripatetic school, who delivered hi…