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all Quadrumana. The higher forms, the gorilla, chimpanzee, and ourang, are often called anthropoid apes or man apes.

One of the classes of Arthropoda. See Illustration in Appendix.

The external covering of an Arthropod.

One of the body segments of Arthropods. See Arthrostraca. Packard.

A joint of the cirri of the Crinoidea; a joint or segment of an arthropod appendage.

One of the somites (arthromeres) that make up the thorax of Arthropods. Packard.

One of the thoracic legs of Arthropods.

The thorax of Arthropods. Packard.

A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc.

The act of weeping noisily. He spake well save that his blubbering interrupted him. Winthrop.

Pertaining to, or in the style of, Lord Byron. With despair and Byronic misanthropy. Thackeray

To make whining pretensions to goodness; to talk with an affectation of religion, philanthropy, etc.; to practice hypocrisy; as, a canting fanatic. The rankest rogue that ever canted. Beau. & Fl.

One of the somites (arthromeres) which make up the head of arthropods. Packard.

The anterior region or head of insects and other arthropods. Packard.

ing a flat gutter or channel. -- Channel bill (Zoöl.), a very large Australian cucko (Scythrops Novæhollandiæ. -- Channel goose. (Zoöl.) See Gannet.

An american bird (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) of the Finch family, so called from its note; -- called also towhee bunting and ground robin.

An african ape (Anthropithecus troglodytes or Troglodytes niger) which approaches more nearly to man, in most respects, than any other ape. When full grown, it is from three to four feet high.

Surrounding the esophagus; -- in Zool. said of the nerve commissures and ganglia of arthropods and mollusks.

An arthropod.

ppearance of something; false; spurious; deceitful; hypocritical; as, a counterfeit philanthropist. "An arrant counterfeit rascal." Shak.