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A genus of Ctenophora. The typical species (Cestus Veneris) is remarkable for its brilliant iridescent colors, and its long, girdlelike form.

One of a tropical family of snakelike lizards (Chalcidæ), having four small or rudimentary legs.

A small species of antelope (Rupicapra tragus), living on the loftiest mountain ridges of Europe, as the Alps, Pyrenees, etc. It possesses remarkable agility, and is a favorite object of chase.

The typical pentadactyloid limb of the higher vertebrates.

mélange served in Chinese restaurants to be eaten with rice, noodles, etc. It consists typically of bean sprouts, onions, mushrooms, etc., and sliced meats, fried and flavored with sesame oil. [U. S.]

One of the Chromidæ, a family of fresh-water fishes abundant in the tropical parts of America and Africa. Some are valuable food fishes, as the bulti of the Nile.

Chronic. Partly on a chronical, and partly on a topical method. J. A. Alexander.

Pica type; -- so called by French printers.

rs citrons. It was probably a native of northern India, and is now understood to be the typical form of Citrus Medica.

To render more quick or acute, as the understanding; to make perspicacious. Our common prints would clear up their understandings. Addison

A tropical fish of the Atlantic ocean (Dutes auriga); -- called also charioteer. The name refers to a long, lashlike spine of the dorsal fin.

A mammal of tropical America of the genus Nasua, allied to the raccoon, but with a longer body, tail, and nose.

A palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera). It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty feet. The trunk is without branches, and has a tuft of leaves at the top, each being fifteen or twenty feet in length, and at the base of these the nuts hang in clusters; the cocoanut tr…

g in Abyssinia, Arabia, Persia, and other warm regions of Asia and Africa, and also in tropical America.

A genus of sterculiaceous trees, natives of tropical Africa, esp. Guinea, but now naturalized in tropical America, esp. in the West Indies and Brazil.

A genus of univale shells, abundant in tropical seas. Some species, as Columbella mercatoria, were formerly used as shell money.

Having all the parts or organs which belong to it or to the typical form; having calyx, corolla, stamens, and pistil.

A topical index or orderly analysis of the contents of a book.

To view or treat with contempt, as mean and despicable; to reject with disdain; to despise; to scorn. Thy pompous delicacies I contemn. Milton. One who contemned divine and human laws. Dryden.

Worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean; vile; despicable. Milton. The arguments of tyranny are ascontemptible as its force is dreadful. Burke.