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The American flying squirrel (Pteromys volucella).

To reach in excellence or degree; to equal.

The central mass of the aster in mitotic cell division; centrosphere.

e of doctor of divinity in some European universities. It begins by a harangue of the chancellor addressed to the young doctor, who then receives the cap, and presides at the disputation (also called the aulic).

See prehensile processes on the cells of some Bryozoa, often having the shape of a bird's bill.

The destruction or dissolution of bacterial cells. -- Bac*te`ri*o*lyt"ic (#), a.

A smokeless powder containing equal parts of soluble nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin.

tively. Basement membrane (Anat.), a delicate membrane composed of a single layer of flat cells, forming the substratum upon which, in many organs, the epithelioid cells are disposed.

A special oblong or pyriform cell, with slender branches, which bears the spores in that division of fungi called Basidiomycetes, of which the common mushroom is an example.

The southern, red, or channel bass (Sciæna ocellata). See Redfish.

stringed instrument of the viol family, used for playing bass. See 3d Bass, n., and Violoncello.

. Hence, in the plural, an honorary garland or crown bestowed as a prize for victory or excellence, anciently made or consisting of branches of the laurel. The patriot's honors and the poet's bays. Trumbull.

A particular grace, feature, ornament, or excellence; anything beautiful; as, the beauties of nature.

to cause to appear well; -- said of persons and things. It becomes me so to speak of so excellent a poet. Dryden. I have known persons so anxious to have their dress become them, as to convert it, at length, into their proper self, and thus actually to become the dress. Coleridge.

of an individual or family; as, a quilting bee; a husking bee; a raising bee. [U. S.] The cellar . . . was dug by a bee in a single day. S. G. Goodrich.

A brown, bitter substance found in some of the cells of honeycomb. It is made chiefly from the pollen of flowers, which is collected by bees as food for their young.

The wax secreted by bees, and of which their cells are constructed.

tance by, in progress of improvement Hence: Inferior to in dignity, rank, knowledge, or excellence, or in any achievement. I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles. 2 Cor. xi. 5.

An infusorian of the family Vorticellidæ, common in fresh-water ponds.

A woman excelling both in beauty and goodness; a fair maid. [Obs.] Spenser.