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The minute marine animals (chiefly Entomostraca) upon which the right whales feed.

(Bovidæ); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.

A thin, elastic strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset. Her long slit sleeves, stiff busk, puff verdingall, Is all that makes her thus angelical. Marston.

l strong vessel with two masts and two cabins; -- used in the herring fishery. The Dutch whalers and herring busses. Macaulay.

The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus). It has in the top of its head a large cavity, containing an oily fluid, which, after death, concretes into a whitish crystalline substance called spermaceti. See Sperm whale.

Also, the young of some other mammals, as of the elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, and whale.

A marine fish (Thaleichthys Pacificus), allied to the smelt, found on the north Pacific coast; -- called also eulachon. It is so oily that, when dried, it may be used as a candle, by drawing a wick through it.

ards and Portuguese in the East India trade; a galleon. [Spelt also carrack.] The bigger whale like some huge carrack law. Waller.

Acrogen. -- Carboniferous formation (Geol.), the series of rocks (including sandstones, shales, limestones, and conglomerates, with beds of coal) which make up the strata of the Carboniferous age or period. See the Diagram under Geology.

ing matter obtained from carmine as a purple-red substance, and probably allied to the phthaleïns.

To form flesh; to become like flesh. Sir M. Hale.

To throw out or emit; to exhale. [Obs.] This . . . casts a sulphureous smell. Woodward.

An order of marine mammals, including the whales. Like ordinary mammals they breathe by means of lungs, and bring forth living young which they suckle for some time. The anterior limbs are changed to paddles; the tail flukes are horizontal. There are two living suborders: (a) The Mysticete or whalebone whales, having n…

Of or pertaining to a whale.

To engrave or imprint. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

One of the higher aromatic hydrocarbons of coal tar, allied to napthalene and anthracene. It is a white crystalline substance, C18H12, of strong blue fluorescence, but generally colored yellow by impurities.

e well developed near Cincinnati, Ohio. The group includes the Hudson River and Lorraine shales of New york.

Of or pertaining to the Cingalese. [Written also Singhalese.]

ame common ancestor, and bearing the same surname; as, the clan of Macdonald. "I have marshaled my clan." Campbell.

ilonacea), abundant in the Arctic Ocean, constitutes a part of the food of the Greenland whale. It is sometimes incorrectly called Clio.