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Of or pertaining to the two posterior gastric lobes of the carapace of crabs.

Having but a single stomach.

A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting what is now a part of the State of New York. They were the central or head tribe of the Five Nations.

Eager or immoderate excitement or action; the state of turgescence of any organ; erethism; esp., the height of venereal excitement in sexual intercourse.

A dark green aluminous variety of amphibole, or hornblende.

Of or pertaining to Pegasus, or, figuratively, to poetry.

Like or pertaining to Pegasus.

, associated with the Muses, and with ideas of poetic inspiration. Each spurs his jaded Pegasus apace. Byron.

Surrounding the stomach; -- applied to the body cavity of Bryozoa and various other Invertebrata.

A kind of oil gas extensively used for lighting railroad cars, which carry it in compressed form.

The pneumogastric nerve. Pneumogastric nerve (Anat.), one of the tenth pair of cranial nerves which are distributed to the pharynx, esophagus, larynx, lungs, heart, stomach, liver, and spleen, and, in fishes and many amphibia, to the branchial apparatus and also to the sides of the body.

One of the Polygastrica. [Obs.]

Pertaining to the Polygastrica. [Obs.]

The Infusoria. [Obs.]

Same as Pulmonata.

The gulf weed. See under Gulf. Sargasso Sea, a large tract of the North Atlantic Ocean where sargasso in great abundance floats on the surface.

A genus of algæ including the gulf weed.

Mollusca belonging to the Isopleura. A narrow groove takes the place of the foot of other gastropods.

One who gazes at the stars; an astrologer; sometimes, in derision or contempt, an astronomer.

The act or practice of observing the stars with attention; contemplation of the stars as connected with astrology or astronomy. Swift.