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Destitute of a siphon or breathing tube; -- said of many bivalve shells. -- n.

See Wateringpot shell.

A group of Gastropoda, with limpetlike shells, including the abalone shells and keyhole limpets.

The act or offense of grubbing up trees and bushes, and thus destroying the tickets or coverts of a forest. Spelman. Cowell.

by treacherous violence. Help, neighbors, my house is broken open by force, and I am ravished, and like to be assassinated. Dryden.

[Obs. or Archaic] To-night let us assay our plot. Shak. Soft words to his fierce passion she assayed. Milton.

Constant in application or attention; devoted; attentive; unremitting. She grows more assiduous in her attendance. Addison.

To remove; to put off. [Obs.] She soundly slept, and careful thoughts did quite assoil. Spenser.

To absolve; to acquit by sentence of court. God assoilzie him for the sin of bloodshed. Sir W. Scott.

To take up; to elevate; to assume. [Obs.] Sheldon.

A class of Echinodermata including the true starfishes. The rays vary in number and always have ambulacral grooves below. The body is starshaped or pentagonal.

The smaller of the two otoliths found in the inner ear of many fishes.

A genus of fishes, some of which were eighteen or twenty feet long, found in a fossil state in the Old Red Sandstone. Hugh Miller.

Stunned; astonished. See Astony. [Archaic] And I astonied fell and could not pray. Mrs. Browning.

To stun; to render senseless, as by a blow. [Obs.] Enough, captain; you have astonished him. [Fluellen had struck Pistol]. Shak. The very cramp-fish [i. e., torpedo] . . . being herself not benumbed, is able to astonish others. Holland.

Stunned; astounded; astonished. [Archaic] Spenser. Thus Ellen, dizzy and astound. As sudden ruin yawned around. Sir W. Scott.

ther in a literal or in a figurative sense; wandering; as, to lead one astray. Ye were as sheep going astray. 1 Pet. ii. 25.

A sanctuary or place of refuge and protection, where criminals and debtors found shelter, and from which they could not be forcibly taken without sacrilege. So sacred was the church to some, that it had the right of an asylum or sanctuary. Ayliffe.

tate of agreement or reconciliation. If gentil men, or othere of hir contree Were wrothe, she wolde bringen hem atoon. Chaucer.

Not furnished with shields or beds for the spores, as the thallus of certain lichens.