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The classification of living organisms according to their structural character; taxonomy.

-- Bitter earth (Min.), tale earth; calcined magnesia. -- Bitter principles (Chem.), a class of substances, extracted from vegetable products, having strong bitter taste but with no sharply defined chemical characteristics. -- Bitter salt, Epsom salts;; magnesium sulphate. -- Bitter vetch (Bot.), a name given to t…

a scoundrel; a rough. A man whose manners and sentiments are decidedly below those of his class deserves to be called a blackguard. Macaulay.

A clause, as in a blanket mortgage or policy, that includes a group or class of things, rather than a number mentioned individually and having the burden, loss, or the like, apportioned among them.

One that covers a group or class of things or properties instead of one or more things mentioned individually, as where a mortgage secures various debts as a group, or subjects a group or class of different pieces of property to one general lien.

One of a class of paupers or pensioners, or licensed beggars, in Scotland, to whim annually on the king's birthday were distributed certain alms, including a blue gown; a beadsman.

at, advice boat, etc. The term is sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest class; as, the Cunard boats.

One who lives in a boggy country; -- applied in derision to the lowest class of Irish. Halliwell.

s of the structure of plants, the functions of their parts, their places of growth, their classification, and the terms which are employed in their description and denomination. See Plant.

A man of middle rank in society; one of the shopkeeping class. [France.] a.

The French middle class, particularly such as are concerned in, or dependent on, trade.

, each in charge of a troop of two or more patrols of eight scouts each, who are of three classes, tenderfoot, second-class scout, and first-class scout.

r of a Russian aristocratic order abolished by Peter the Great. Also, one of a privileged class in Roumania.

A class of Molluscoidea having a symmetrical bivalve shell, often attached by a fleshy peduncle.

Class; sort; kind; -- of men, things, or qualities. Are these the breed of wits so wondered at Shak. This courtesy is not of the right breed. Shak.

Capable of being bribed. A more bribable class of electors. S. Edwards.

A class of Molluscoidea, including minute animals which by budding form compound colonies; -- called also Polyzoa.

d by the volume of fluid displaced. Such are buoyancies or displacements of the different classes of her majesty's ships. Eng. Cyc.

One of a race of South African nomads, living principally in the deserts, and not classified as allied in race or language to any other people.

bage has a compact head of leaves. The cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, etc., are sometimes classed as cabbages.