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Ostracoidea.

A suborder of fishes of which Ostracion is the type.

Of or pertaining to the Ostracoidea. -- n.

An order of Entomostraca possessing hard bivalve shells. They are of small size, and swim freely about. [Written also Ostracoda.]

A genus of bivalve Mollusca which includes the true oysters.

Of or pertaining to an oyster, or to a shell; shelly. The crustaceous or ostreaceous body. Cudworth.

The artificial cultivation of oysters.

One who feeds on oysters.

A large bird of the genus Struthio, of which Struthio camelus of Africa is the best known species. It has long and very strong legs, adapted for rapid running; only two toes; a long neck, nearly bare of feathers; and short wings incapable of flight. The adult male is about eight feet high.

Producing oysters; containing oysters.

One of the Eastern Goths. See Goth.

Of or pertaining to the Ostrogoths.

Characterizing that kind of reasoning which derives propositions from the observation of facts, or by generalizations from facts arrives at principles and definitions, or infers causes from effects. This is the reverse of a priori reasoning.

to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of. [Obs.] "So much [of Lapland] as accosts the sea." Fuller.

Approachable; affable. [R.] Hawthorne.

Supported on both sides by other charges; also, side by side.

the letters of the alphabet in regular order (as Psalm cxix.). See Abecedarian. Double acrostic, a species of enigma, in which words are to be guessed whose initial and final letters form other words.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, acrostics.

After the manner of an acrostic.

(Anat.) One of the bones at the base of a paired fin of a fish.