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A master subordinate to the principal master; an assistant master.

One who is not a match for another. Fuller.

The inferior, or after, part of the day; the afternoon. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] In undermeals and in mornings. Chaucer.

r the purpose of causing to fall or be overthrown; to form a mine under; to sap; as, to undermine a wall. A vast rock undermined from one end to the other, and a highway running through it. Addison.

One who undermines.

To serve, or minister to, in a subordinate relation. [Obs.] Wyclif.

A subordinate or inferior ministry. Jer. Taylor.

Suppressed or concealed mirth. [Obs.] The Coronation.

Bribed. [R.] Fuller.

Lowest, as in place, rank, or condition. Addison.

The act of wandering, or roaming. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

The state of being bewildered; confusion; bewilderment. And snatched her breathless from beneath This wilderment of wreck and death. Moore.

hment; a wonderful appearance; a wonder. Bacon. All the common sights they view, Their wonderment engage. Sir W. Scott.

Ichthyosis.

A secondary respiratory tissue or modified periderm, found in many aquatic plants and distinguished by the large intercellular spaces.

Bewilderment, arising from fear, surprise, or wonder; amazement. [Chiefly poetic] The wild, bewildered Of one to stone converted by amaze. Byron.

The condition of being amazed; bewilderment [Obs.]; overwhelming wonder, as from surprise, sudden fear, horror, or admiration. His words impression left Of much amazement. Milton.

ambulacra; avenuelike; as, the ambulacral ossicles, plates, spines, and suckers of echinoderms.

One of the radical zones of echinoderms, along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays.

ng the annelids and allied groups; sometimes made to include also the helminths and echinoderms. [Written also Annuloidea.]