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A rod which unites the drawgear at opposite ends of the car, and bears the pull required to draw the train.

The path by which electricity is conveyed into or from a solution or other conducting medium; esp., the ends of the wires or conductors, leading from source of electricity, and terminating in the medium traversed by the current.

Hemorrhoids; piles; tumors; boils. [R.] Deut. xxviii. 27.

See Emerods. [Obs.]

See Enarthrosis. -- En`ar*thro"di*al, a.

To eat into or away; to corrode; as, canker erodes the flesh. "The blood . . . erodes the vessels." Wiseman. The smaller charge is more apt to . . . erode the gun. Am. Cyc.

Eaten away; gnawed; irregular, as if eaten or worn away.

A medicine which eats away extraneous growths; a caustic.

A dextrin which gives a red color with iodine. See Dextrin.

See Scrod, a young cod.

That part of blastoderm where the hypoblast appears like a small disk on the inner face of the epibladst.

Pertaining to the stomach and duodenum; as, the gastroduodenal artery.

Inflammation of the stomach and duodenum. It is one of the most frequent causes of jaundice.

See Gauge rod, under Gauge, n.

ul elongated cluster. The name is common to all the species of the genus Solidago. Golden-rod tree (Bot.), a shrub (Bosea Yervamora), a native of the Canary Isles.

A genus of extinct oölitic fishes, having rounded teeth in several rows adapted for crushing.

Hermaphrodism. B. Jonson.

See Hermaphroditism.

the stamens and pistil within the same calyx, or on the same receptacle. In some cases reproduction may take place without the union of the distinct individuals. In the animal kingdom true hermaphrodites are found only among the invertebrates. See Illust. in Appendix, under Helminths.

Partaking of the characteristics of both sexes; characterized by hermaphroditism. -- Her*maph`ro*dit"ic*al*ly, adv.