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Any one of a division (Lepidoganoidei) of ganoid fishes, including those that have scales forming a coat of mail. Also used adjectively.

A species of mica, of a lilac or rose-violet color, containing lithia. It usually occurs in masses consisting of small scales. See Mica.

An iron-potash mica, of a raven-black color, usually found in granitic rocks in small six-sided tables, or as an aggregation of minute opaque scales. See Mica.

One of the Lepidoptera.

An order of insects, which includes the butterflies and moths. They have broad wings, covered with minute overlapping scales, usually brightly colored.

Of or pertaining to the Lepidoptera.

One who studies the Lepidoptera.

A division of reptiles, including the serpents and lizards; the Plagiotremata.

ca. The name is also applied to a related African species (Protopterus annectens). The lepidosirens grow to a length of from four to six feet. Called also doko.

Having a coat of scurfy scales, as the leaves of the oleaster.

The tenth month of the French republican calendar dating from September 22, 1792. It began June 19, and ended July 18. See VendÉmiaire.

A tribe of Lepidoptera, including a vast number of minute species, as the plume moth, clothes moth, etc.

A gold coin of Portugal, valued at about 27s. sterling.

fs, constables, etc. Thackeray. With unabated ardor the vindictive man of law and his myrmidons pressed forward. W. H. Ainsworth.

Consisting of, or like, myrmidons. Pope.

Scent or savor of meat or food, cooked or cooking. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Nidorous. [R.] Arbuthnot.

Resembling the smell or taste of roast meat, or of corrupt animal matter. [R.]

Having a strong, disagreeable smell; fetid. [Obs.] Boyle. Sir T. Browne.

An instrument, consisting of a tube having one end open and the other end covered with a thin flexible membrance to the center of which is attached a small mirror. It is used for exhibiting upon a screen, by means of rays reflected from the mirror, the vibratory motions caused by sounds produced at the open end of the…