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Nursers, -- a term applied to those birds whose young are hatched in a very immature and helpless condition, so as to require the care of their parents for some time; -- opposed to præcoces.

A North American herb (Heuchera Americana) of the Saxifrage family, whose root has astringent properties.

A person whose employment is to write what another dictates, or to copy what another has written.

he fabled food of the gods (as nectar was their drink), which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it.

edly from a concealed station. Hence: Unseen peril; a device to entrap; a snare. Heaven, whose high walls fear no assault or siege Or ambush from the deep. Milton.

olitics), a party, about 1854, which opposed the influence of foreign-born citizens, and those supposed to owe allegiance to a foreign power. -- Native american Party (U. S. Politics), a party of principles similar to those of the American party. It arose about 1843, but soon died out.

s which are incapable of long-continued multiplication, in transitory structures, and in those in early stages of degeneration.

cerebral disease, in which the patient substitutes wrong words or names in the place of those he wishes to employ. Quian.

The quantity of electricity delivered in one hour by a current whose average strength is one ampère. It is used as a unit of quantity, and is equal to 3600 coulombs. The terms Ampère minute and Ampère second are sometimes similarly used.

The inhabitants of the tropic, whose shadows in one part of the year are cast to the north, and in the other to the south, according as the sun is south or north of their zenith.

An embrace. [Obs.] An humble amplexation of those sacred feet. Bp. Hall.

A name sometimes applied to a member of any sect holding that rebaptism is necessary for those baptized in infancy.

A species in one genus or group having its characters parallel, one by one, with those of another group.

Lawless; anarchical. [R.] We are in the habit of calling those bodies of men anarchal which are in a state of effervescence. Landor.

A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.

e; -- opposed to modern; as, ancient authors, literature, history; ancient days. Witness those ancient empires of the earth. Milton. Gildas Albanius . . . much ancienter than his namesake surnamed the Wise. Fuller.

Two-edged instead of round; -- said of certain flattened stems, as those of blue grass, and rarely also of leaves.

A sinuous depression or sulcus like those separating the convolutions of the brain.

des are produced or lengthened. -- Facial angle. See under Facial. -- Internal angles, those which are within any right-lined figure. -- Mixtilineal angle, one formed by a right line with a curved line. -- Oblique angle, one acute or obtuse, in opposition to a right angle. -- Obtuse angle, one greater than a right…

The belief of those in the Church of England who accept many doctrines and practices which they maintain were those of the primitive, or true, Catholic Church, of which they consider the Church of England to be the lineal descendant.