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One of the small white egg-shaped pupæ or cocoons of the ant, often seen in or about ant-hills, and popularly supposed to be eggs.

A small antenna; -- applied to the smaller pair of antennæ or feelers of Crustacea.

A small intrenchment or work of palisades, or of sacks of earth.

A genus of small beetles, several of which, in the larval state, are very destructive to woolen goods, fur, etc. The common "museum pest" is A. varius; the carpet beetle is A. scrophulariæ. The larvæ are commonly confounded with moths.

A modification of the quadrant, for measuring small angles. [Obs.]

Preventing the contagion of smallpox.

The serum of blood rendered antitoxic to a venom by repeated injections of small doses of the venom.

That point in the orbit of a double star where the smaller star is farthest from its primary.

Terminated abruptly by a small, distinct point, as a leaf.

A figure by which a speaker formally declines to take notice of a favorable point, but in such a manner as to produce the effect desired. [For example, see Mark Antony's oration. Shak., Julius Cæsar, iii. 2.]

The small hollow curvature given to the top or bottom of the shaft of a column where it expands to meet the edge of the fillet; -- called also the scape. Parker.

The remaining part of a whole tone after a smaller semitone has been deducted from it; a major semitone. [Obs.]

A small ornamental piece of embroidery worn on albs and some other ecclesiastical vestments.

A small appendage.

A genus of small free-swimming Tunicata, shaped somewhat like a tadpole, and remarkable for resemblances to the larvæ of other Tunicata. It is the type of the order Copelata or Larvalia. See Illustration in Appendix.

Having small appendages; forming an appendage. Appendiculate leaf, a small appended leaf. Withering.

the principal note unless it be of the same harmony; -- generally indicated by a note of smaller size, as in the illustration above. It forms no essential part of the harmony.

the prospect of future evil. After the death of his nephew Caligula, Claudius was in no small apprehension for his own life. Addison.

A small tree or shrub. [Obs.] Spenser. Among thick-woven arborets, and flowers Imbordered on each bank. Milton.

ns), having white or usually rose- colored flowers with a delicate fragrance, growing in small axillary clusters, and appearing early in the spring; in New England known as mayflower; -- called also ground laurel. Gray.