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The external male organ of trematodes and some other worms, and of certain Mollusca.

of arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent. Todd.

Feeling or expressing commiseration. Todd.

ibers. Arbuthnot. Membranous organs inclosing a cavity which their contraction constrict. Todd & Bowman.

or pull up. [Obs.] The ends of the fragment . . . will not yield to the convellent force. Todd & Bowman.

Any bright-colored fish of the genera Chætodon, Pomacentrus, Apogon, and related genera, which live among reef corals.

A tree (Galactodendron utile or Brosimum Galactodendron) of South America, which yields, on incision, a nourishing fluid, resembling milk.

Short; brittle; as, crup cake. Todd.

Capable of being cultivated or tilled. Todd.

One who has the care and superintendence of anything, as of a museum; a custodian; a keeper.

A woman who is a guardian or custodian. Burrill.

A keeper; a custodian; a superintendent. [Obs.] Custos rotulorum (r Etym: [LL., keeper of the rolls] (Eng. Law), the principal justice of the peace in a county, who is also keeper of the rolls and records of the sessions of the peace.

To toddle; to walk unsteadily, like a child or an old man; hence, to do anything slowly or feebly.

To hold up by leading strings or by the hand, as a child while he toddles. [Obs.] Little children when they learn to go By painful mothers daded to and fro. Drayton.

known plant of the genus Taraxacum (T. officinale, formerly called T. Dens-leonis and Leontodos Taraxacum) bearing large, yellow, compound flowers, and deeply notched leaves.

A small South American rodent (Octodon Cumingii), of the family Octodontidæ.

Formation and separation of laminæ or layers; one of the methods by which the various blastodermic layers of the ovum are differentiated.

To lodge in some one's hands for sale keeping; to commit to the custody of another; to intrust; esp., to place in a bank, as a sum of money subject to order.

mative, much used in anatomical terms, and signifying skin, integument, covering; as, blastoderm, ectoderm, etc.

To hold or keep in custody.