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A shrike or butcher bird; -- written also matagasse. [Prov. Eng.]

Sycosis.

Of or pertaining to the two posterior gastric lobes of the carapace of crabs.

Measurement, especially of coal. De Foe.

xtending from the one developed from the ovum to the final perfected individual. Hence, metagenesis involves the production of sexual individuals by nonsexual means, either directly or through intervening sexless generations. Opposed to monogenesis. See Alternate generation, under Generation.

Of or pertaining to metagenesis.

Metagenetic.

Cross-billed; -- said of certain birds, as the crossbill.

Anagrammatism.

By or pertaining to metagraphy.

The art or act of rendering the letters of the alphabet of one language into the possible equivalents of another; transliteration. Stormonth.

The coin, or other production, made in a mint. Stamped in clay, a heavenly mintage. Sterling.

A process for checking the fermentation of the must of grapes.

Of or pertaining to interpretation of mysteries or to mystagogue; of the nature of mystagogy.

interprets mysteries, especially of a religious kind.

The doctrines, principles, or practice of a mystagogue; interpretation of mysteries.

Not contagious; not catching; not communicable by contact. -- Non`con*ta"gious*ness, n.

A rapid involuntary oscillation of the eyeballs.

Any structure (as a fortification) or place with eight sides or angles. Regular octagon, one in which the sides are all equal, and the angles also are all equal.

Having eight sides and eight angles.