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The segment next to the flagellum of the antennæ of Crustacea.

(Chem.), a method of obtaining chlorine gas by passing hydrochloric acid gas over heated slag which has been previously saturated with a solution of some metallic salt, as sulphate of copper. -- Final process (Practice), a writ of execution in an action at law. Burrill. -- In process, in the condition of advance, acc…

Situated in front of the notochord; -- applied especially to parts of the cartilaginous rudiments in the base of the skull.

The anterior of three principal cartilages in the fins of some fishes. -- Prop`ter*yg"i*al, a.

rthrow; to demolish; to destroy; to deprive of efficiency; to ruin; as, to prostrate a village; to prostrate a government; to prostrate law or justice.

n animal and vegetable tissues, and separable by chemical analysis, as albumin, sugar, collagen, fat, etc.

Any grouse of the genus Lagopus, of which numerous species are known. The feet are completely feathered. Most of the species are brown in summer, but turn white, or nearly white, in winter.

Of, pertaining to, or representing the pterygoid and quadrate bones or cartilages.

and is usually built either of stone or adobe. The term is also applied to any Indian village in the same region. Pueblo Indians (Ethnol.), any tribe or community of Indians living in pueblos. The principal Pueblo tribes are the Moqui, the Zuñi, the Keran, and the Tewan.

privilege of remaining in the mansion house of which her husband died seized. Quarantine flag, a yellow flag hoisted at the fore of a vessel or hung from a building, to give warning of an infectious disease; -- called also the yellow jack, and yellow flag.

Peculiar flavor, taste, or strength, as of wine; that quality, or assemblage of qualities, which indicates origin or kind, as in wine; hence, characteristic flavor; smack. "A race of heaven." Shak. Is it [the wine] of the right race Massinqer.

The bone or cartilage of the carpus which articulates with the radius and corresponds to the scaphoid bone in man.

To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with destruction or fatal effect; as, the plague raged in Cairo.

assume an erect position or posture; to set up; to make upright; as, to raise a mast or flagstaff. Hence: --

To plunder; to pillage completely. Their vow is made To ransack Troy. Shak.

To rob; to pillage. [Obs.] Heywood.

The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of things by force; spoliation; pillage; plunder. Men who were impelled to war quite as much by the desire of rapine as by the desire of glory. Macaulay.

ly; excellently; with rare skill. See 3d Rare, 2. The person who played so rarely on the flageolet. Sir W. Scott. The rest of the spartments are rarely gilded. Evelyn.

One of the radiating spines, or cartilages, supporting the fins of fishes.

t part; that which is behind, or last on order; -- opposed to Ant: front. Nipped with the lagging rear of winter's frost. Milton.