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The division of Cetacea which comprises the dolphins, porpoises, and related forms.

A genus of Cetacea, including the dolphin. See Dolphin,

The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelian. Knight.

In a manner to diminish.

Dish-shaped; concave.

Constituting difference, or distinction from everything else; distinctive; peculiar; characteristic. The distinguishing doctrines of our holy religion. Locke. Distinguishing pennant (Naut.), a special pennant by which any particular vessel in a fleet is recognized and signaled. Simmonds.

With distinction; with some mark of preference. Pope.

Doing nothing; inactive; idle; lazy; as, a do-nothing policy.

Inactivity; habitual sloth; idleness. [Jocular] Carlyle. Miss Austen.

A cetacean of the genus Delphinus and allied genera (esp. D. delphis); the true dolphin.

A female dolphin. [R.] Spenser.

The quality or state of being doughy.

See Earth light, under Earth.

The quality or state of being earthy, or of containing earth; hence, grossness.

Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp.

Same as Echinoid.

One the Echinoidea.

Of, or like, an echinite.

A fossil echinoid.

ly in the liver and lungs, which often cause death. It is the larval stage of the Tænia echinococcus, a small tapeworm peculiar to the dog.