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A short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal.

An assistant editor, as of a periodical or journal.

A small nocturnal and arboreal Australian marsupial (Tarsipes rostratus) about the size of a mouse. It has a long muzzle, a long tongue, and very few teeth, and feeds upon honey and insects. Called also noolbenger.

A genus of nocturnal lemurine mammals having very large eyes and ears, a long tail, and very long proximal tarsal bones; -- called also malmag, spectral lemur, podji, and tarsier.

The journal, or pivot, at the lower end of a revolving shaft or spindle, which rests in a step.

A large East Indian nocturnal tree snake (Dipsas dendrophila). It is not venomous.

the West Indies and South America. Their bright colored and tailed hind wings and their diurnal flight cause them to closely resemble butterflies.

which rough entries of transactions are made, previous to their being carried into the journal.

erican water shrew, or marsh shrew (Neosorex palustris), is rarely seen, owing to its nocturnal habits.

tithes, the members of which were so called from the white shirts they wore in their nocturnal raids.

upials of the genus Phascolomys, especially the common species (P. ursinus). They are nocturnal in their habits, and feed mostly on roots.

lled limicoline birds belonging to the genera Scolopax and Philohela. They are mostly nocturnal in their habits, and are highly esteemed as game birds.

A stud or pin which forms a journal; -- also called wrist pin. Bridle wrist, the wrist of the left hand, in which a horseman holds the bridle. -- Wrist clonus. Etym: [NL. clonus, fr. Gr. Clonic.] (Med.) A series of quickly alternating movements of flexion and extension of the wrist, produced in some cases of nervous d…