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A growth of minute powdery or webby fungi, whitish or of different colors, found on various diseased or decaying substances.

rat in color and having a long scaly tail, but the tail is compressed, the bind feet are webbed, and the ears are concealed in the fur. It has scent glands which secrete a substance having a strong odor of musk. Called also musquash, musk beaver, and ondatra.

of very large hairy spiders having four lungs and only four spinnerets. They do not spin webs, but usually construct tubes in the earth, which are often furnished with a trapdoor. The South American bird spider (Mygale avicularia), and the crab spider, or matoutou (M. cancerides) are among the largest species. Some of…

Why, even now now, at holding up of this finger, and before the turning down of this." J. Webster (1607). -- Now . . . now, alternately; at one time . . . at another time. "Now high, now low, now master up, now miss." Pope.

ilton. Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. D. Webster.

stinguished from an argument in court, a popular harangue, a sermon, a lecture, etc.; as, Webster's oration at Bunker Hill. The lord archbishop . . . made a long oration. Bacon.

A division of spiders, including those that make geometrical webs, as the garden spider, or Epeira.

To exhibit; to manifest. [Obs.] Mercy to mean offenders we'll ostend. J. Webster.

d genera. Several species are described. They have large, flattish heads, short ears, and webbed toes. They are aquatic, and feed on fish. Their fur is soft and valuable. The common otter of Europe is Lutra vulgaris; the American otter is L. Canadensis; other species inhabit South America and Asia.

To surpass in bragging; hence, to make appear inferior. Whose bare outbragg'd the web it seemed to wear. Shak.

lso, an unequal match; a contest in which one of the opponents is overmatched. Milton. D. Webster.

Web-footed.

Having the anterior toes united by a web, as in most swimming birds; webbed. See Illust. (i) under Aves.

A group of wading birds having the toes webbed, as the avocet.

Web-footed, as a water fowl. -- n.

A web or fold of skin which extends between the legs of certain mammals, as the flying squirrels, colugo, and phalangister.

A former time or state; a state of things gone by. "The past, at least, is secure." D. Webster. The present is only intelligible in the light of the past, often a very remote past indeed. Trench.

Pertaining to the care and medical treatment of children. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

One who peeps; a prying person; a spy. Who's there peepers, . . . eavesdroppers J. Webster.

Any large webfooted bird of the genus of Pelecanus, of which about a dozen species are known. They have an enormous bill, to the lower edge of which is attached a pouch in which captured fishes are temporarily stored.