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Having a head; -- said of most Mollusca; -- opposed to acephalous.

malice, or hatred; to imbue as with venom; to imbitter. The envenomed tongue of calumny. Smollett. On the question of slavery opinion has of late years been peculiarly envenomed. Sir G. C. Lewis.

A genus of nudibranch mollusks having clusters of branchial papillæ along the back. See Ceratobranchia. [Written also Æolis.]

A membranaceous or calcareous septum with which some mollusks close the aperture of the shell during the time of hibernation, or æstivation.

Pertaining to the epipodium of Mollusca.

A formal eulogy. Smollett.

A large division of gastropod molluske, including the Pulmonifera and Opisthobranchiata.

A wandering beyond limits; excess. [Obs.] Smollett.

shape to produce a honeycomb pattern, as in a pavement; -- called also favas and sectila. Mollett.

A portable bier or shrine, variously adorned, used for containing relics of saints. Mollett.

A membranous, finlike, swimming organ, as in pteropod and heteropod mollusks.

A genus of marine gastropod mollusks, having a conical or limpetlike shell, with an opening at the apex; -- called also keyhole limpet.

The muscular locomotive organ of a mollusk. It is a median organ arising from the ventral region of body, often in the form of a flat disk, as in snails. See Illust. of Buccinum.

The dressing of the hair by crisping or curling. Smollett.

ecies are the arctic fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) (called also fulmar petrel, malduck, and mollemock), and the giant fulmar (Ossifraga gigantea).

A water cooler or jug with a handle and spout; a gurglet. Mollett.

One of the classes of Mollusca, of great extent. It includes most of the marine spiral shells, and the land and fresh-water snails. They generally creep by means of a flat, muscular disk, or foot, on the ventral side of the body. The head usually bears one or two pairs of tentacles. See Mollusca. [Written also Gasterop…

The division of Mollusca which includes the land snails and slugs.

A stomach armed with chitinous or shelly plates or teeth, as in certain insects and mollusks. Gizzard shad (Zoöl.), an American herring (Dorosoma cepedianum) resembling the shad, but of little value. -- To fret the gizzard, to harass; to vex one's self; to worry. [Low] Hudibras. -- To stick in one's gizzard, to be di…

A genus of nudibranchiate mollusks, found in the warmer latitudes, swimming in the open sea. These mollusks are beautifully colored with blue and silvery white.