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Natural history, in its broadest sense, a history or description of nature as a whole, incuding the sciences of botany, zoölogy, geology, mineralogy, paleontology, chemistry, and physics. In recent usage the term is often restricted to the sciences of botany and zoölogy collectively, and sometimes to the science of zo…

To lie close and snug, as a bird in her nest; to cuddle up; to settle, as in a nest; to harbor; to take shelter. Their purpose was to fortify in some strong place of the wild country, and there nestle till succors came. Bacon.

Of or pertaining to the understanding. [Obs.] Cudworth.

An innovator; an asserter of novelty. [Obs.] Cudworth.

The act of creeping upon with secrecy or by surprise. [Obs.] Cudworth.

forth or deliverance. [Obs.] Yet is all human teaching but maieutical, or obstetricious. Cudworth.

Comprehending or including all bodies; embracing all substance. [R.] Cudworth.

The state of being one or single. [Obs.] Cudworth.

of anything, as upon the back of a leaf or sheet already written upon on one side. [R.] Scudamore.

f or pertaining to an oyster, or to a shell; shelly. The crustaceous or ostreaceous body. Cudworth.

ning to pagans or paganism; heathenish; paganish. [R.] "The paganic fables of the goods." Cudworth. -- Pa*gan"ic*al*ly, adv. [R.]

The state of being a pagan; paganism. [R.] Cudworth.

An example; a model; a pattern. [R.] "The paradigms and patterns of all things." Cudworth.

An order of fishes including the gray mullets (Mugil), the barracudas, the silversides, and other related fishes. So called from their relation both to perches and to pikes.

conceived to be diffused throughout the whole world, to permeate and pervade all things. Cudworth.

Fig.: Hardness; callousness; obduracy. "Petrifaction of the soul." Cudworth.

A mental image or representation of a real object; a fancy; a notion. Cudworth. Figures or little features, of which the description had produced in you no phantasm or expectation. Jer. Taylor.

rtaining to the Pharisees; resembling the Pharisees. "The Pharisaic sect among the Jews." Cudworth.

To speculate in physiology; to make physiological investigations. Cudworth.

eso, or peso duro) is of about the value of the American dollar. The Italian piaster, or scudo, was worth from 80 to 100 cents. The Turkish and Egyptian piasters are now worth about four and a half cents.