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Wrong information; misinformation.

To tell erroneously.

To surpass in telling, counting, or reckoning. "I have outtold the clock." Beau. & Fl.

ies of limpets. The shell has the form of a flattened cone. The common European limpet (Patella vulgata) is largely used for food.

Of or pertaining to the patella, or kneepan.

Having the form of a patella.

A cuplike sucker on the feet of certain insects.

Situated around the vitellus, or between the vitellus and zona pellucida of an ovum.

The hindermost dorsal piece of a thoracic somite of an insect; the plate behind the scutellum.

Any starlike meteor or phenomenon. [R.]

One of the points sometimes drilled as guides for cutting away superfluous stone.

To tell again.

Pertaining to a rostellum.

Having a rostellum, or small beak; terminating in a beak.

Having the form of a rostellum, or small beak.

A small beaklike process or extension of some part; a small rostrum; as, the rostellum of the stigma of violets, or of the operculum of many mosses; the rostellum on the head of a tapeworm.

Any one of numerous species of small, polished, brightcolored gastropods of the genus Rotella, native of tropical seas.

ant attached to a prince or other powerful person; hence, an obsequious dependent. "The satellites of power." I. Disraeli.

Pertaining to, or consisting of, satellites. [R.] Cheyne.

See Scutellum.