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Any one of numerous species of hymenopterous insects belonging to the family Tenthredinidæ. The female usually has an ovipositor containing a pair of sawlike organs with which she makes incisions in the leaves or stems of plants in which to lay the eggs. The larvæ resemble those of Lepidoptera.

A pteropod.

(Print.) In some cylinder presses, a device with long fingers for freeing the sheet from the cylinder.

In a stiff manner.

Any one of numerous species of dipterous flies of the genus Syrphus and allied genera. They are usually bright-colored, with yellow bands, and hover around plants. The larvæ feed upon plant lice, and are, therefore, very beneficial to agriculture.

Attentively. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Like a thief; thievish; thievishly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A large American butterfly (Papilio troilus). It is black, with yellow marginal spots on the front wings, and blue on the rear.

Any of several fruit flies, esp. Drosophila ampelopophila, which breed in imperfectly sealed preserves and in pickles.

(Zoöl.) A Brazilian fly whose larvæ live in the skin of man and animals, producing painful sores.

A small European sawfly (Cephus pygmæus) whose larva does great injury to wheat by boring in the stalks.

Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to scale insects. They are usually covered with a white or gray powder.

r than; on or over the upper surface; over; -- opposed to below or beneath. Fowl that may fly above the earth. Gen. i. 20.

ure. Worn on an amulet it was supposed to ward off fever. At present the word is used chiefly in jest to denote something without meaning; jargon.

; swallowing; absorptive. Absorbent ground (Paint.), a ground prepared for a picture, chiefly with distemper, or water colors, by which the oil is absorbed, and a brilliancy is imparted to the colors.

nt; sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions. Instances of longevity are chiefly among the abstemious. Arbuthnot.

leasant odor, and is produced for use as an illuminating gas in a number of ways, but chiefly by the action of water on calcium carbide. Its light is very brilliant. Watts.

The property of radiant energy (found chiefly in solar or electric light) by which chemical changes are produced, as in photography.

Adieu; farewell; good-by; -- chiefly used among Spanish- speaking people.

of adjustment but not of manipulation, for preserving lateral balance in an aëroplane or flying machine.