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A fresh-water alga (Cladophora Ægagropila) which forms a globular mass.

See Moorpan.

sound and healthful; induced by a diseased or abnormal condition; diseased; sickly; as, morbid humors; a morbid constitution; a morbid state of the juices of a plant. "Her sick and morbid heart." Hawthorne.

Delicacy or softness in the representation of flesh.

The quality or state of being morbid.

In a morbid manner.

The quality or state of being morbid; morbidity.

Causing disease; generating a sickly state; as, a morbific matter.

Pertaining to the measles; partaking of the nature of measels, or resembling the eruptions of that disease; measly.

Proceeding from disease; morbid; unhealthy. Morbose tumors and excrescences of plants. Ray.

A diseased state; unhealthiness. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

See Premonstrant.

Plane or flat on one side, and spherical on the other.

Any fresh-water air-breathing mollusk belonging to Planorbis and other allied genera, having shells of a discoidal form.

A receptacle in which money given for the poor is placed.

A species of shark (Lamna cornubica), about eight feet long, having a pointed nose and a crescent-shaped tail; -- called also mackerel shark. [Written also probeagle.]

Situated behind the orbit; as, the postorbital scales of some fishes and reptiles. -- n.

a. (Anat.) Situated in front or the orbit.

The rorqual.

A species of auk (Alca torda) common in the Arctic seas. See Auk, and Illust. in Appendix.