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A young hedgehog. Shak.

In confusion; topsy-turvy. [Colloq.] Johnson.

To pledge or pawn. [Obs.] Laing.

The act of pawning or pledging; the state of being pawned. [Obs.] Bailey.

See Geropigia.

A tapster. [Obs.]

American shrubs with opposite leaves and small white or reddish flowers. The drupes of Malpighia urens are eaten under the name of Barbadoes cherries.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of tropical trees and shrubs (Malpighiaceæ), some of them climbing plants, and their stems forming many of the curious lianes of South American forests.

Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Marcello Malpighi, an Italian anatomist of the 17th century. Malhighian capsules or corpuscles, the globular dilatations, containing the glomeruli or Malpighian tufts, at the extremities of the urinary tubules of the kidney. Malpighian corpuscles of the spleen, masses of adenoid tis…

To pledge; to pawn. [Obs.] Bacon.

That portion of the labium which bears the palpi in insects.

Bearing a palpus. Kirby.

Of or pertaining to pseudepigraphy.

Inscribed with a false name. Cudworth.

The ascription of false names of authors to works.

Bearing or containing a pupa; -- said of dipterous larvæ which do not molt when the pupa is formed within them.

A porpoise or dolphin.

The common guillemot.

Creeping; -- said of lesions which heal over one portion while continuing to advance at another.

A dry, scaly eruption on the skin; especially, a ringworm.