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Strife; dispute; abusive or upbraiding talk, as in fliting; wrangling. [Obs. or Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

Contention; strife; scolding; specif., a kind of metrical contest between two persons, popular in Scotland in the 16th century. [Obs. or Scot.]

A variant of Flute. [Obs.]

A plant (Dionæa muscipula), called also Venus's flytrap, the leaves of which are fringed with stiff bristles, and fold together when certain hairs on their upper surface are touched, thus seizing insects that light on them. The insects so caught are afterwards digested by a secretion from the upper surface of the leave…

A shrub of the Olive family, with yellow blossoms.

See Fit a song. [Archaic]

The dogwood tree. [Obs.] Chaucer.

generation or phase which bears sex organs. In the lower plants, as the algæ, the gametophyte is the conspicuous part of the plant body; in mosses it is the so-called moss plant; in ferns it is reduced to a small, early perishing body; and in seed plants it is usually microscopic or rudimentary.

The operation of cutting into the upper part of the vagina, through the abdomen (without opening the peritoneum), for the purpose of removing a fetus. It is a substitute for the Cæsarean operation, and less dangerous.

One whose voice appears to proceed from the stomach; a ventriloquist. [Obs.]

The dogwood tree. [Obs.] Chaucer.

(Biol.) A cytode without a proper cell wall, but with a nucleus. Haeckel.

A cytode without either a cell wall or a nucleus. Haeckel.

Delirious; senselessly extravagant; as, the man is clean gyte. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

An apparatus for determining the number of corpuscles in a given quantity of blood.

See Hæmocytotrypsis.

See Hæmacytometer.

blood corpuscles, as by pressure, in distinction from solution of the corpuscles, or hæmcytolysis.

Same as Hæmatolysis, Hæmatolytic.

A plant found growing in salt marshes, or in the sea.