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Onr of the Testacea.

The science which treats of testaceans, or shellfish; the description of shellfish. [R.]

The science of testaceous mollusks; conchology. [R.]

Having a dull red brick color or a brownish yellow color. Testaceous animals (Zoöl.), animals having a firm, calcareous shell, as oysters and clams, thus distinguished from crustaceous animals, whose shells are more thin and soft, and consist of several joints, or articulations, as lobsters and crabs.…

A division of Tunicata comprising the free-swimming species, such as Salpa and Doliolum.

The operation of puncturing the chest wall so as to let out liquids contained in the cavity of the chest.

A leather strap supporting the body of a carriage, and attached to springs, or serving as a spring. See Illust. of Chaise.

Perfect in what is undertaken; complete; going all lengths; as, a thoroughplaced Tory or Whig. If she be a thoroughplaced impostor. Sir W. Scott.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of plants (Tiliaceæ) of which the linden (Tilia) is the type. The order includes many plants which furnish a valuable fiber, as the jute.

Gritty; sandy; rough; stony.

To scratch to pieces. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A race by men carrying torches, as in ancient Greece.

a simple thread lace worked upon a pillow with coarse thread; also, a similar lace made by machinery.

rk left by anything passing; a track; a path; a course; a footprint; a vestige; as, the trace of a carriage or sled; the trace of a deer; a sinuous trace. Milton.

Capable of being traced. -- Trace"a*ble*ness, n. -- Trace"a/bly, adv.

One who, or that which, traces.

n some styles of vaulting, the ribs of the vault giving off the minor bars of which the tracery is composed.

To remove across some space; to put in an opposite or another place. [R.] It [an obelisk] was transplaced . . . from the left side of the Vatican into a more eminent place. Bp. Wilkins.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a trout; as, fish of the truttaceous kind.

Pertaining to tufa; consisting of, or resembling, tufa.