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Applied to boiled potatoes cut into small pieces and heated in oil or butter. They are usually flavored with onion and parsley.

A spirituous liquor or drink distilled from potatoes; -- used in the Barbadoes.

One of a group of wading birds (Macrodactyli) having very long toes. [Written also macrodactyle.]

Having long toes.

Plasmodium (syn. Hæmatozoön) which in their adult condition live in the tissues of mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles (which see) and when transferred to the blood of man, by the bite of the mosquito, produce malaria. The young parasites, or sporozoites, enter the red blood corpuscles, growing at their expense, undergo…

y state by beating or pressure; to bruise; to crush; as, to mash apples in a mill, or potatoes with a pestle. Specifically (Brewing), to convert, as malt, or malt and meal, into the mash which makes wort. Mashing tub, a tub for making the mash in breweries and distilleries; -- called also mash tun, and mash vat.…

s officinalis) of the Andes, having tuberous roots which are used as a substitute for potatoes.

An extinct mammal of the Horse family, but not larger than a sheep, and having three toes on each foot.

Mistletoe. [Obs.] Missel bird, Missel thrush (Zoöl.), a large European thrush (Turdus viscivorus) which feeds on the berries of the mistletoe; -- called also mistletoe thrush and missel.

The mistletoe. [Obs.] Baret.

[Written also musquito.] Mosquito bar, Mosquito net, a net or curtain for excluding mosquitoes, -- used for beds and windows. -- Mosquito fleet, a fleet of small vessels. -- Mosquito hawk (Zoöl.), a dragon fly; -- so called because it captures and feeds upon mosquitoes. -- Mosquito netting, a loosely-woven gauzelike…

the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes. His nayles like a briddes claws were. Chaucer.

Having a separate and simple tendon to flex the first toe, or hallux, as do passerine birds.

An affection of a finger or toe, attended with ulceration at the base of the nail, and terminating in the destruction of the nail.

osable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace.

or. -- Quito orange, the orangelike fruit of a shrubby species of nightshade (Solanum Quitoense), native in Quito. -- Orange scale (Zoöl.) any species of scale insects which infests orange trees; especially, the purple scale (Mytilaspis citricola), the long scale (M. Gloveri), and the red scale (Aspidiotus Aurantii).…

One of the nymphs of mountains and grottoes. Like a wood nymph light, Oread or Dryad. Milton.

keleton, esp. in the pelvis and hind legs, which in some genera had only three functional toes, and supported the body in walking as in Iguanodon. See Illust. in Appendix.

A genus of American Eocene mammals allied to the horse, but having four toes in front and three behind.

ndian birds of the genera Ortygis and Hemipodius. They resemble quails, but lack the hind toe. See Turnix.