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See Postiler.

Situated behind the orbit; as, the postorbital scales of some fishes and reptiles. -- n.

d, destitute of trees, covered with coarse grass, and usually characterized by a deep, fertile soil. They abound throughout the Mississippi valley, between the Alleghanies and the Rocky mountains. From the forests and the prairies, From the great lakes of the northland. Longfellow.

f the coracoid (often closely united with the clavicle) in the shoulder girdle of many reptiles and amphibians.

ethmoid, as a certain bone in the nasal capsule of many animals, and certain scales of reptiles and fishes. -- n.

One of the scales just in front of the eye of a reptile or fish.

o magnify their preparations. Sir T. Browne. In the preparations of cookery, the most volatile parts of vegetables are destroyed. Arbuthnot.

To make all things ready; to put things in order; as, to prepare for a hostile invasion. "Bid them prepare for dinner." Shak.

drawing, or the like, by the action of light upon a sensitized surface. Printed goods, textile fabrics printed in patterns, especially cotton cloths, or calicoes.

A vertebral rudiment in front of the atlas in some reptiles.

xtensive division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, including those that have a long retractile proboscis, with the mouth at the end, as the cones, whelks, tritons, and cowries. See Illust. of Gastropoda, and of Winkle.

A reptile having procoelian vertebræ; one of the Procoelia.

Producing, or able to produce, in large measure; fertile; profitable. -- Pro*duc"tive*ly, adv. -- Pro*duc"tive*ness, n.

e religion or religious sect, or to some particular opinion, system, or party; thus, a Gentile converted to Judaism, or a pagan converted to Christianity, is a proselyte. Ye [Scribes and Pharisees] compass sea and land to make one proselyte. Matt. xxiii. 15. Fresh confidence the speculatist takes From every harebrained…

An extinct genus of reptiles of the Permian period. Called also Protosaurus.

Capable of being protruded or thrust out; protractile; protrusive.

Any contractile vessel of invertebrates which is not of the nature of a real heart, especially one of those pertaining to the excretory system.

One of the two elongated vibratile young formed by fission of the embryo during the development of certain Gregarinæ.

An extinct flying reptile; one of the Pterosauria. See Illustration in Appendix.

An extinct order of flying reptiles of the Mesozoic age; the pterodactyls; -- called also Pterodactyli, and Ornithosauria.