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One of the small white egg-shaped pupæ or cocoons of the ant, often seen in or about ant-hills, and popularly supposed to be eggs.

A small antenna; -- applied to the smaller pair of antennæ or feelers of Crustacea.

A small intrenchment or work of palisades, or of sacks of earth.

A genus of small beetles, several of which, in the larval state, are very destructive to woolen goods, fur, etc. The common "museum pest" is A. varius; the carpet beetle is A. scrophulariæ. The larvæ are commonly confounded with moths.

A modification of the quadrant, for measuring small angles. [Obs.]

Preventing the contagion of smallpox.

The serum of blood rendered antitoxic to a venom by repeated injections of small doses of the venom.

That point in the orbit of a double star where the smaller star is farthest from its primary.

Terminated abruptly by a small, distinct point, as a leaf.

The small hollow curvature given to the top or bottom of the shaft of a column where it expands to meet the edge of the fillet; -- called also the scape. Parker.

The remaining part of a whole tone after a smaller semitone has been deducted from it; a major semitone. [Obs.]

A small ornamental piece of embroidery worn on albs and some other ecclesiastical vestments.

A small appendage.

A genus of small free-swimming Tunicata, shaped somewhat like a tadpole, and remarkable for resemblances to the larvæ of other Tunicata. It is the type of the order Copelata or Larvalia. See Illustration in Appendix.

Having small appendages; forming an appendage. Appendiculate leaf, a small appended leaf. Withering.

the principal note unless it be of the same harmony; -- generally indicated by a note of smaller size, as in the illustration above. It forms no essential part of the harmony.

t the prospect of future evil. After the death of his nephew Caligula, Claudius was in no small apprehension for his own life. Addison.

A small tree or shrub. [Obs.] Spenser. Among thick-woven arborets, and flowers Imbordered on each bank. Milton.

ens), having white or usually rose- colored flowers with a delicate fragrance, growing in small axillary clusters, and appearing early in the spring; in New England known as mayflower; -- called also ground laurel. Gray.

A small fish (Toxotes jaculator), of the East Indies; -- so called from its ejecting drops of water from its mouth at its prey. The name is also applied to Chætodon rostratus.