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s of color in the translucent skin of such animals as possess them. They are highly developed and numerous in the cephalopods.

raphic picture taken upon paper prepared by the use of a sensitive salt of iron and developed by the application of chloride of gold. Abney.

Chopped pieces of fish used as bait. [U. S.]

An epoch at the close of the American lower Silurian system. The rocks are well developed near Cincinnati, Ohio. The group includes the Hudson River and Lorraine shales of New york.

The jointed, leglike organs of Cirripedia. See Annelida, and Polychæta.

An instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum. [Written also cithern.] Shak.

A division of passerine birds in which the vocal muscles are but little developed, so that they lack the power of singing.

A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal coking.

ily or without due formality. (b) To make or contrive hastily. [Obs.] "Was ever match clapped up so suddenly" Shak.

Oatmeal cake or bread clapped or beaten till it is thin. [Obs.] Halliwell.

One of a pair of male copulatory organs, developed on the anterior side of the ventral fins of sharks and other elasmobranchs. See Illust. of Chimæra.

A comprehensive division of animate or inanimate objects, grouped together on account of their common characteristics, in any classification in natural science, and subdivided into orders, families, tribes, gemera, etc.

Shaped like a lattice; cancellate. Gray.

Club-shaped; having the form of a club; growing gradually thicker toward the top.

houlder blade, and at the other to the sternum, or breastbone. In man each clavicle is shaped like the letter

Having club-shaped antennæ. See Antennæ -- n.

A group of beetles having club-shaped antennæ.

Club-shaped; clavate. Craig.

Free from impediment or obstruction; unobstructed; as, a clear view; to keep clear of debt. My companion . . . left the way clear for him. Addison.

at the customhouse; permission to sail. Every ship was subject to seizure for want of stamped clearances. Durke