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Covered with a cataphract, or armor of plates, scales, etc.; or with that which corresponds to this, as horny or bony plates, hard, callous skin, etc.

A method of making stereotype plates from inscribed sheets of wax.

the genus Cestracion, and of related genera. The posterior teeth form a pavement of bony plates for crushing shellfish. Most of the species are extinct. The Port Jackson shark and a similar one found in California are living examples.

he Mysticete or whalebone whales, having no true teeth after birth, but with a series of plates of whalebone [see Baleen.] hanging down from the upper jaw on each side, thus making a strainer, through which they receive the small animals upon which they feed. (b) The Denticete, including the dolphins and sperm whale, w…

ble is passed into the lockers or tiers. -- Chain plate (Shipbuilding), one of the iron plates or bands, on a vessel's side, to which the standing rigging is fastened. -- Chain pulley, a pulley with depressions in the periphery of its wheel, or projections from it, made to fit the links of a chain. -- Chain pumps. S…

An engraver on copper or brass; hence, an engraver of copper plates for printing upon paper.

A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mold.

es, perculiar in having a part of the vertebræ, ribs, and sternum united with the dermal plates so as to form a firm shell. The jaws are covered by a horny beak. See Reptilia; also, Illust. in Appendix.

One of the round, or oval, horny plates on the inner sides of the legs of the horse, and allied animals.

One of a group of gastropod mollusks, with a shell composed of eight movable dorsal plates. See Polyplacophora.

That branch of political economy which relates to the production of wealth.

a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body. Boyle.

The extent to which anything circulates or is circulated; the measure of diffusion; as, the circulation of a newspaper.

One who, or that which, circulates.

That which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things. The circumstances are well known in the country where they happened. W. Irving.

ate, not by evaporation but by some kind of chemical reaction; to curdle; as, rennet coagulates milk; heat coagulates the white of an egg.

An extinct genus of Devonian ganoid fishes, having the broad plates about the head studded with berrylike tubercles.

A large, highly esteemed, edible fish of India (Lates calcarifer); -- also called begti.

One who collates manuscripts, books, etc. Addison.

A scheme of equalizing the social conditions of life; specifically, a scheme which contemplates the abolition of inequalities in the possession of property, as by distributing all wealth equally to all, or by holding all wealth in common for the equal use and advantage of all.