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Any bird of the genus Ibis and several allied genera, of the family Ibidæ, inhabiting both the Old World and the New. Numerous species are known. They are large, wading birds, having a long, curved beak, and feed largely on reptiles.

Like a lob; consisting of lobs. Sir. P. Sidney.

Like a mob; tumultuous; lawless; as, a mobbish act. Bp. Kent.

The state of consisting of monosyllables, or having a monosyllabic form; frequent occurrence of monosyllables.

Any fresh-water air-breathing mollusk belonging to Planorbis and other allied genera, having shells of a discoidal form.

Of or pertaining to plebiscite. The Century.

[Written also plebiscit.] Plebiscite we have lately taken, in popular use, from the French. Fitzed. Hall.

A law enacted by the common people, under the superintendence of a tribune or some subordinate plebeian magistrate, without the intervention of the senate.

A diseased condition, produced by the absorption of lead, common among workers in this metal or in its compounds, as among painters, typesetters, etc. It is characterized by various symptoms, as lead colic, lead line, and wrist drop. See under Colic, Lead, and Wrist.

The quality or state of being polysyllabic.

Same as Preoral, Prepubis, Prescapula, etc.

A bone or cartilage, of some animals, situated in the middle line in front of the pubic bones.

The ventral and anterior of the three principal bones composing either half of the pelvis; sharebone; pubic bone.

To furbish anew.

; especially, fragments of building materials or fallen buildings; ruins; débris. What rubbish and what offal! Shak. he saw the town's one half in rubbish lie. Dryden. Rubbish pulley. See Gin block, under Gin.

One who dreads Russia or Russian influence. [Words sometimes found in the newspapers.]

The character and opinions of a Jewish scribe in the time of Christ. F. W. Robertson.

aining to a snob; characteristic of, or befitting, a snob; vulgarly pretentious. -- Snob"bish*ly, adv.

Vulgar affectation or ostentation; mean admiration of mean things; conduct or manners of a snob.

Snobbery.