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Algaroba (b). -- Screw-pod mesquite, a smaller tree (Prosopis pubescens), having spiral pods used as fodder and sometimes as food by the Indians. -- Mesquite grass, a rich native grass in Western Texas (Bouteloua oligostachya, and other species); -- so called from its growing in company with the mesquite tree; -- cal…

A median elevation behind the mouth in the arthropods.

ugust and 13th of November, more rarely in April and December, and also at some other periods.

Microbacteria, or bacteria in the form of short rods, including the genus Bacterium. 3. Desmobacteria, or bacteria in straight filaments, of which the genus Bacillus is a type. 4. Spirobacteria, or bacteria in spiral filaments, as the genus Vibrio.

A seismometer for measuring amplitudes or periods, or both, of microseisms. --Mi`cro*seis*mom"e*try (#), n.

A minute bloodsucking fly. [Local, U. S.]

n measure of distance, being equivalent in England and the United States to 320 poles or rods, or 5,280 feet.

Slender rods or tubes of colored glass fused together and embedded in clear glass; -- used for paperweights and other small articles.

on. Whose glorious deeds, but in these fields of late, Made emulous missions' mongst the gods themselves. Shak.

To bewail audibly; to lament. Ye floods, ye woods, ye echoes, moan My dear Columbo, dead and gone. Prior.

al is two inches long, and forms a rose-colored moccasin-shaped pouch. It grows in rich woods under coniferous trees.

h seal. Shak. You have the models of several ancient temples, though the temples and the gods are perished. Addison.

st public examinations for degrees at the University of Oxford; -- usually contracted to mods.

One of two equal parts; a half; as, a moiety of an estate, of goods, or of profits; the moiety of a jury, or of a nation. Shak. The more beautiful moiety of his majesty's subject. Addison.

The lowest division of rhizopods, including those which resemble the amoebas, but are destitute of a nucleus.

of such particular metals, as were in those countries commonly made use of to purchase goods. Hence the origin of coined money, and of those public offices called mints. A. Smith.

Information; indication; notice; advice. We have no visible monition of ... other periods, such as we have of the day by successive light and darkness. Holder.

"auto-regulative." Most of the chief features of the method are borrowed from current methods used in many institutions for training feeble-minded children, and dating back especially to the work of the French-American physician Edouard O. Seguin (1812- 80).

The quality or state of being moody; specifically, liability to strange or violent moods.

Subject to varying moods, especially to states of mind which are unamiable or depressed.