Search the Dictionary

One of the Myogalodæ, a family of Insectivora, including the desman, and allied species.

Same as Naphthylamine.

A colorless liquid hydrocarbon, having a garlic odor; heptine.

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

A group of extinct Reptilia, intermediate in structure (especially with regard to the pelvis) between reptiles and birds. -- Or`ni*tho*scel"i*dan, a.

Any one of numerous small two-winged flies of the family Ortalidæ. The larvæ of many of these flies live in fruit; those of others produce galls on various plants.

To slide outward, onward, or forward; to advance by sliding. [Poetic] At last our grating keels outslide. Whittier.

To glide over. Wyatt.

To slide over or by.

resembling oxanilamide, obtained by heating aniline oxalate, and regarded as a double anilide of oxalic acid; -- called also diphenyl oxamide.

Deficient in color; pale; wan; as, a pallid countenance; pallid blue. Spenser.

Pallidness; paleness.

In a pallid manner.

The quality or state of being pallid; paleness; pallor; wanness.

Any insect of the genus Perla, or family Perlidæ. See Stone fly, under Stone.

s a white crystalline substance; hence, by extension, any one of the series of which phthalide proper is the type. [Written also phthalid.]

The free-swimming, hat-shaped larva of certain nemertean worms. It has no resemblance to its parent, and the young worm develops in its interior.

Same as Archegonium.

The lid or cover of a pot. Potlid valve, a valve covering a round hole or the end of a pipe or pump barrel, resembling a potlid in form.

Consolidated beforehand.