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A group of Gastropoda, with limpetlike shells, including the abalone shells and keyhole limpets.

Steep; high. [Obs.] Grapes grow on the brant rocks so wonderfully that ye will marvel how any man dare climb up to them. Ascham.

With temporary gills: -- applied to those Amphibia in which the gills do not remain in adult life.

A division of annelids in which the gills arise from or near the head. See Tubicola.

One who performs a public religious rite; -- applied particularly to an officiating priest in the Roman Catholic Church, as distinguished from his assistants.

A group of nudibranchiate Mollusca having on the back papilliform or branched organs serving as gills.

Pertaining to the bone, or cartilage, below the epibranchial in a branchial arch. -- n.

An ornamental bordering or framelike decoration around the sides and top of a door, window, or fireplace. The top piece is called the traverse and the side pieces the ascendants.

A division of Mollusca having slender, cirriform appendages near the mouth; the Scaphopoda.

A group of nudibranch mollusks.

Having concealed or rudimentary gills.

Encumbrance. [Obs.] Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare. Milton.

Having the gills around the margin of the body, as certain limpets.

A group of nudibranch mollusks without special gills.

Having the skin modified to serve as a gill.

An order of cephalopods which includes those with two gills, an apparatus for emitting an inky fluid, and either eight or ten cephalic arms bearing suckers or hooks, as the octopi and squids. See Cephalopoda.

One of the Dibranchiata.

To divest of a branch or branches; to tear off. Shak.

To free from wrangling or litigation. [Obs.] Berkeley.

Freedom or deliverance from encumbrance, or anything burdensome or troublesome. Spectator.