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Dried cod, exported from Norway. [Written also clipfish.]

prings from one crag to another with great agility; -- called also kainsi. [Written also klippspringer.]

Any orchidaceous plant of the genus Cypripedium, the labellum of which resembles a slipper. Less commonly, in the United States, the garden balsam (Impatiens Balsamina).

The slipping down of a mass of land from a mountain, hill, etc.

One belonging to a very diminutive race described in Swift's "Voyage to Lilliput."

A kind of sugar confection which dissolves easily in the mouth. Thackeray.

One of the mouth appendages of Crustacea, situated next behind the maxillæ. Crabs have three pairs, but many of the lower Crustacea have but one pair of them. Called also jawfoot, and foot jaw.

Belonging to the genus Meliphaga.

Eating, or feeding upon, honey.

See Meliphagan.

See Meliphagous.

The same Milleped.

Having soft hairs; downy.

A name for certain crustaceous marine algæ which secrete carbonate of lime on their surface, and were formerly thought to be of animal nature. They are now considered corallines of the genera Melobesia and Lithothamnion.

The upper lip. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To slip or slide over; to pass easily or carelessly beyond; to omit; to neglect; as, to overslip time or opportunity.

The great cowslip (Primula veris, var. elatior).

A title given in the Douay Bible to the Books of Chronicles.

See Paraleipsis.

The European hedge sparrow.