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A rattlehead. C. Kingsley.

The dried tubers of various species of Orchis, and Eulophia. It is used to make a nutritious beverage by treating the powdered preparation with hot water. U. S. Disp.

A very large seal (Macrorhinus proboscideus) of the Antarctic seas, much hunted for its oil. It sometimes attains a length of thirty feet, and is remarkable for the prolongation of the nose of the adult male into an erectile elastic proboscis, about a foot in length. Another species of smaller size (M. angustirostris)…

imp. of Sleep. Slept. Chaucer.

A burrowing rodent (Spalax typhlus), native of Russia and Asia Minor. It has the general appearance of a mole, and is destitute of eyes. Called also mole rat.

imp. & p. p. of Sleep.

A bedplate; as, the soleplate of a steam engine.

A figure of speech by which a word is used in a literal and metaphorical sense at the same time.

Of or pertaining to a syllepsis; containing syllepsis. -- Syl*lep"tic*al*ly, adv.

A contraction of syllables by suppressing some vowel or diphthong at the end of a word, before another vowel or diphthong; as, th' army, for the army. [Written also synaloepha.]

ut communication through the ordinary channels of sensation. -- Tel`e*path"ic, a. -- Te*lep"a*thist, n.

A message by a telephone. [Recent]

To convey or announce by telephone.

A central office in which the wires of telephones may be connected to permit conversation.

Of or pertaining to the telephone; by the telephone.

By telephonic means or processes; by the use of the telephone.

The art or process of reproducing sounds at a distance, as with the telephone.

A telelectric apparatus for producing images of visible objects at a distance.

Telephotographic; specif., designating a lens consisting of a combination of lenses specially designed to give a large image of a distant object in a camera of relatively short focal length.

A photograph, image, or impression, reproduced by or taken with a telephotographic apparatus.