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r or the entrance to an interior part. The mouth, the antechamber to the digestive canal. Todd & Bowman.

om its ejecting drops of water from its mouth at its prey. The name is also applied to Chætodon rostratus.

The primitive form of fin, like that of Ceratodus.

The taking or apprehending of a person by authority of law; legal restraint; custody. Also, a decree, mandate, or warrant. William . . . ordered him to be put under arrest. Macaulay. [Our brother Norway] sends out arrests On Fortinbras; which he, in brief, obeys. Shak.

Without a material body; incorporeal. Todd.

A seizure or taking into custody by virtue of a legal process.

Proceeds; as, the avails of a sale by auction. The avails of their own industry. Stoddard.

To set free, or deliver from arrest, or out of custody, on the undertaking of some other person or persons that he or they will be responsible for the appearance, at a certain day and place, of the person bailed.

An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity…

A remarkable Australian fresh-water ganoid fish of the genus Ceratodus.

ing a painted staff, who formerly was in attendance upon the king's court to take into custody persons committed by the court. Mozley & W.

To beat or bang. [Prov. & Low, Eng.] Todd.

An usher in the legislature of British colonies. Cowell. Committed to the custody of the Black Rod. Macaulay.

t of the ovum in which the outer cells of the morula become more defined and form the blastoderm.

e in which goods on which the duties are unpaid are stored under bond and in the joint custody of the importer, or his agent, and the customs officers.

s along a river; low-lying ground; a dale; a valley. "The bottoms and the high grounds." Stoddard.

three-headed dog, guarding the entrance into the infernal regions, Hence: Any vigilant custodian or guardian, esp. if surly.

The larval form of a trematode worm having the shape of a tadpole, with its body terminated by a tail-like appendage.

eproductive organs. They have neither mouth nor intestine. See Tapeworm. [Written also Cestoda.]

A person or thing commited or intrusted to the care, custody, or management of another; a trust.