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A peculiar perforated organ of certain spiders (Ciniflonidæ), used for spinning a special kind of silk.

A kind of castanet used by the Corybantes.

A race course; a place for running.

Destitute or deprived of features; deplumed.

The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers. Bp. Stillingfleet

To strip or pluck off the feather of; to deprive of of plumage. On the depluming of the pope every bird had his own feather. Fuller.

A plaster originally composed of the juices of several plants (whence its name), but now made of an oxide of lead and oil, and consisting essentially of glycerin mixed with lead salts of the fat acids.

To strip of, or as of, a plume, or plumes; to deprive of decoration; to dishonor; to degrade. Displumed, degraded, and metamorphosed. Burke.

A blind tube branching out of a longer one.

A genus of freeswimming oceanic tunicates, allied to Salpa, and having alternate generations.

The name given to a hypothetical element, -- later discovered and called gallium. See Gallium, and cf. Ekabor.

Weak or lame in the loins. [Obs.]

; compensation; advantage; perquisites, fees, or salary. A long . . . enjoyment of the emoluments of office. Bancroft.

Pertaining to an emolument; profitable. [R.] Evelyn.

Plumed. [R.]

To illumine. [Obs.] Spenser.

To form into, or incorporate with, a volume. [R.]

A genus of cactaceous plants having flattened, jointed stems, and petals united in a tube. The flowers are very showy, and several species are in cultivation.

The outer part of the fructification of most lichens.

Having the structure of a filoplume.