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cific, but many other species are found fossil. The shell is spiral, symmetrical, and chambered, or divided into several cavities by simple curved partitions, which are traversed and connected together by a continuous and nearly central tube or siphuncle. See Tetrabranchiata.

nt number, Cardinal number, etc. See under Abstract, Abundant, etc. -- In numbers, in numbered parts; as, a book published in numbers.

Capable of being numbered or counted.

Hence: A lovely young girl; a maiden; a damsel. Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins remembered. Shak.

Bereaved; fatherless; childless. [Obs.]

The state of being orbate, or deprived of parents or children; privation, in general; bereavement. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A child bereaved of both father and mother; sometimes, also, a child who has but one parent living. Orphans' court (Law), a court in some of the States of the Union, having jurisdiction over the estates and persons of orphans or other wards. Bouvier.

A term formerly applied to a short piece of chambered ordnance. [Written also paterero and peterero.]

The thin chambered shell attached to the anterior end of a belemnite. [Written also phragmacone.]

Lace pillow, a cushion used in making hand-wrought lace. -- Pillow bier Etym: [OE. pilwebere; cf. LG. büre a pillowcase], a pillowcase; pillow slip. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- Pillow block (Mach.), a block, or standard, for supporting a journal, as of a shaft. It is usually bolted to the frame or foundation of a machine, an…

Open; clear; unencumbered; equal; fair. Our troops beat an army in plain fight. Felton.

A division of Foraminifera including those having a manychambered shell.

Many-chambered; -- applied to shells of Foraminifera and cephalopods. See Illust. of Nautilus.

he hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc., from shifting. Pouch mouth, a mouth with blubbered or swollen lips.

trike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat. With cruel blows she pounds her blubbered cheeks. Dryden.

the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants. Macaulay.

A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer. It may seem strange that a man who wrote with so much perspicuity, vivacity, and grace, should have been, whenever he took a part in conversation, an empty, noisy, blundering rattle. Macaulay.

To take away by violence or by stealth; to snatch away; to rob; to despoil; to bereave. [Archaic]. "To reave his life." Spenser. He golden apples raft of the dragon. Chaucer. By privy stratagem my life at home. Chapman. To reave the orphan of his patrimony. Shak. The heaven caught and reft him of his tongue. Tennyson.…

to each; mutual; as, reciprocal love; reciprocal duties. Let our reciprocal vows be remembered. Shak.

Bereft. Reft of thy sons, amid thy foes forlorn. Heber.