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A division of Mollusca remarkable for the bilateral symmetry of the organs and the arrangement of the nerves.

-- footed Crustacea, inhabiting both fresh and salt water. The body is usually compressed laterally, and the anterior pairs or legs are directed downward and forward, but the posterior legs are usually turned upward and backward. The beach flea is an example. See Tetradecapoda and Arthrostraca.

One of the rounded prominences of the lower surface of the lateral hemispheres of the cerebellum, each side of the vallecula.

A combining form meaning anterior, front; as, antero-posterior, front and back; antero-lateral, front side, anterior and at the side.

One of the two halves of bilaterally symmetrical animals; one of any opposite symmetrical or homotypic parts in animals and plants.

Without lateral columns; -- applied to buildings which have no series of columns along their sides, but are either prostyle or amphiprostyle, and opposed to peripteral. R. Cyc.

rica and Australia. The wood cells differ from those of other in having the dots in their lateral surfaces in two or three rows, and the dots of contiguous rows alternating. The seeds are edible.

or bearer, as of a knight, an esquire who bore his shield and rendered other services. In later use, one next in degree to a knight, and entitled to armorial bearings. The term is now superseded by esquire. Jacob.

trivance answering to a trigger, by which the burning match was applied. The musket was a later invention. [Written also harquebus.]

One of the four subkingdoms in the classification of Cuvier. It has been much modified by later writers.

Not symmetrical; wanting proportion; esp., not bilaterally symmetrical. Huxley.

Want of symmetry, or proportion between the parts of a thing, esp. want of bilateral symmetry.

The goddess of mischievous folly; also, in later poets, the goddess of vengeance.

Degree of atomic attraction; equivalence; valence; also (a later use) the number of atoms in an elementary molecule. See Valence.

The part of the framing of a railway car or truck, by which an axle box is held laterally, and in which it may move vertically; -- also called a jaw in the United States, and a housing in England.

A worshiper of Baal; a devotee of any false religion; an idolater.

water at the end of a lever. -- Ball gudgeon, a pivot of a spherical form, which permits lateral deflection of the arbor or shaft, while retaining the pivot in its socket. Knight. -- Ball lever, the lever used in a ball cock. -- Ball of the eye, the eye itself, as distinguished from its lids and socket; -- formerly,…

t arm. Originally it was used for supporting the musket and twelve cases for charges, but later only as a cartridge belt.

Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg.

atinum wire loop attached to terminals and inclosed in a small glass or silver bulb. In a later variety, called the liquid barretter, wire is replace by a column of liquid in a very fine capillary tube.