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everal related genera, in which the shell is either small and concealed in the mantle, or altogether wanting. They are closely allied to the land snails.

To fish for eels by thrusting the baited hook into their holes or hiding places. Walton.

Causing or inducing sleep; soporific; dormitive; as, a somniferous potion. Walton.

to a sophist; embodying sophistry; fallaciously subtile; not sound. His argument . . . is altogether sophistical. Macaulay. -- So*phis"tic*al*ly, adv. -- So*phis"tic*al*ness, n.

reservation or their seed, both the spawner and the milter, cover their spawn with sand. Walton.

e offered, as a candidate. He stood to be elected one of the proctors of the university. Walton.

of dots, in distinction from engraving in lines. The interlaying of small pieces can not altogether avoid a broken, stippled, spotty effect. Milman.

An alto-stratus cloud.

cane sugar, etc. By extension, any one of the class of isomeric substances (as lactose, maltose, etc.) of which sucrose proper is the type.

A kind of worm or larva. Walton.

der Invert. -- Malt sugar, a variety of sugar isomeric with sucrose, found in malt. See Maltose. -- Manna sugar, a substance found in manna, resembling, but distinct from, the sugars. See Mannite. -- Milk sugar, a variety of sugar characteristic of fresh milk, and isomeric with sucrose. See Lactose. -- Muscle sugar…

The current of a stream. [R.] Walton.

Altogether; indiscriminately. [R.] Shak.

Instruments of action; as, fishing tackling. Walton.

istry. The barbarous effect produced by a German structure of sentence, and a terminology altogether new. De Quincey.

flatterer." Shak. Made his masters and others . . . to consider him to a little wonder. Walton.

while the pulsation of the heart and the breathing, although still present, are almost or altogether imperceptible. He fell down in a trance. Chaucer.

A copy; a transcript. Walton.

ating length any tone within the compass of the instrument (which may be bass or tenor or alto or even, in rare instances, soprano) is commanded. It is the only member of the family of wind instruments whose scale, both diatonic and chromatic, is complete without the aid of keys or pistons, and which can slide from not…

Vigorous in body; strong; powerful; as, a valiant fencer. [Obs.] Walton.