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Adorned with, or wearing, a tiara.

Blood poisoning. See under Blood.

A group of passerine birds having the syrinx at the lower end of the trachea.

A division of acalephs in which the development is direct from the eggs, without a hydroid stage. Some of the species are parasitic on other medusæ.

A name given to any one of a series of orange-red dyestuffs produced artificially from certain complex sulphonic acid derivatives of azo and diazo hydrocarbons of the aromatic series; -- so called because of the general resemblance to the shades of nasturtium (Tropæolum).

A division of annelids including those which construct, and habitually live in, tubes. The head or anterior segments usually bear gills and cirri. Called also Sedentaria, and Capitibranchiata. See Serpula, and Sabella.

See Tubularida.

A division of birds including Turnix and allied genera, resembling quails in appearance but differing from them anatomically.

Printers; -- used in the name of an association of the master printers of the United States and Canada, called The United Typothetæ of America.

Having no ideas; senseless; frivolous. "Unideaed girls." Mrs. Hemans. He [Bacon] received the unideaed page [Villiers] into his intimacy. Lord Campbell.

Accumulation in the blood of the principles of the urine, producing dangerous disease.

Of or pertaining to uræmia; as, uræmic convulsions.

The posterior half of an animal.

A serpent, or serpent's head and neck, represented on the front of the headdresses of divinities and sovereigns as an emblem of supreme power.

An extensive family of butterflies, including those known as skippers (Hesperiadæ).

Urinary hæmatin; -- applied to the normal coloring matter of the urine, on the supposition that it is formed either directly or indirectly (through bilirubin) from the hæmatin of the blood. See Urochrome, and Urobilin.

See Voe. [Scot.]

A wave. [Obs.] Spenser.

The kittiwake. [Scot.]

Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron; -- so called after A. B. Widmanstätten, of Vienna, who first described them in