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e with a spar, or piece of wood, used as a lever. [Obs.] Give me a staff that I may underspore. Chaucer.

The thin-walled summer spore which is produced during the so- called Uredo stage of certain rusts. See (in the Supplement) Uredinales, Heteroecious, etc.

Wet with vapors; moist.

One who vapors; a braggart. Vaporer moth. (Zoöl.) See Orgyia.

A pore by which the water tubes of various invertebrates open externally.

A spore provided with one or more slender cilia, by the vibration of which it swims in the water. Zoöspores are produced by many green, and by some olive-brown, algæ. In certain species they are divided into the larger macrozoöspores and the smaller microzoöspores. Called also sporozoid, and swarmspore.…

A spore formed by the union of several zoöspores; -- called also zygozoöspore.

A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species). Thus, the owner of a cow becomes the owner of her calf.…

ve organs, composed largely of nettling cells (cnidæ), thrown out of the mouth or special pores of certain Actiniæ when irritated.

Having acrospores.

An apparatus designed for collecting spores, germs, bacteria, etc., suspended in the air.

Aërial; ethereal; incorporeal; visionary. [Poetic] M. Arnold.

To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish. To smart and agonize at every pore. Pope.

s fungi of the family Agaricaceæ, characterized by having a volva, an annulus, and white spores. The species resemble edible mushrooms, and are frequently mistaken for them. Amanita muscaria, syn. Agaricus muscarius, is the fly amanita, or fly agaric; and A. phalloides is the death cup.

e zones usually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays.

The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts; analysis; as, the anatomy of a discourse.

Having the seeds or spores covered, as in certain lichens. Gray.

Having spores contained in cells or thecæ, as in the case of some fungi.

heep. It is ascribed to the presence of a rod-shaped bacterium (Bacillus anthracis), the spores of which constitute the contagious matter. It may be transmitted to man by inoculation. The spleen becomes greatly enlarged and filled with bacteria. Called also splenic fever.

The formation of a bud in place of a fertilized ovule or oöspore. De Bary.