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The act of introducing, or bringing to notice.

Serving to introduce; introductory. -- In`tro*duc"tive*ly, adv.

An introducer. [Obs.]

By way of introduction.

Serving to introduce something else; leading to the main subject or business; preliminary; prefatory; as, introductory proceedings; an introductory discourse.

A female introducer.

A genus of extinct mammals allied to the cats, and having in the upper jaw canine teeth of remarkable size and strength; -- hence called saber-toothed tigers.

One of a group of wading birds (Macrodactyli) having very long toes. [Written also macrodactyle.]

Having long toes.

The longer of two diagonals, as of a rhombic prism. See Crystallization.

A dome parallel to the longer lateral axis of an orthorhombic crystal. See Dome, n., 4.

A macrodont animal.

A hidrous potash mica related to muscovite.

Having small teeth.

A set of rods, made of bone or other material, each divided into nine spaces, and containing the numbers of a column of the multiplication table; -- a contrivance of Baron Napier, the inventor of logarithms, for facilitating the operations of multiplication and division.

A failure to produce or exhibit.

To surpass (Herod) in violence or wickedness; to exceed in any vicious or offensive particular. "It out-Herods Herod." Shak. Out-Heroding the preposterous fashions of the times. Sir W. Scott.

An excursion. [Obs.] "Outrodes by the ways of Judea." Macc. xv. 41 (Geneva Bible).

Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill.

Having all the toes turned forward, as the colies.