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Of or pertaining to the Asterioidea. -- n.

A division of Hydroidea in which the zooids are naked, or not inclosed in a capsule. See Tubularian.

e and generative ducts open, and which also receives the water from the gills. See Ascidioidea.

A word which expresses with augmented force the idea or the properties of the term from which it is derived; as, dullard, one very dull. Opposed to diminutive. Gibbs.

Hypnotism of one's self by concentration of the attention on some object or idea.

vulgaris), called also brock, inhabits the north of Europe and Asia; another species (Taxidea Americana or Labradorica) inhabits the northern parts of North America. See Teledu.

" from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Balænoidea) are attached side by side along the upper jaw, and form a fringelike sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth.

time; a release bars the plaintiff's recovery; -- sometimes with up. He barely looked the idea in the face, and hastened to bar it in its dungeon. Hawthorne.

With the exception of; excepting. We have little reason to think that they bring many ideas with them, bating some faint ideas of hunger and thirst. Locke.

earlier than; previously to; anterior to the time when; -- sometimes with the additional idea of purpose; in order that. Before Abraham was, I am. John viii. 58. Before this treatise can become of use, two points are necessary. Swift.

That which exists in any form, whether it be material or spiritual, actual or ideal; living existence, as distinguished from a thing without life; as, a human being; spiritual beings. What a sweet being is an honest mind ! Beau. & Fl. A Being of infinite benevolence and power. Wordsworth.

,a.Of or relating to Bishop Berkeley or his system of idealism; as, Berkeleian philosophy. -- Berke"ley*ism, n.

A round, low-crowned felt hat; a wideawake. "The undignified billycocks and pantaloons of the West." B. H. Chamberlain.

hold small birds which may light upon it. Hence: Anything which insnares. Not birdlime or Idean pitch produce A more tenacious mass of clammy juice. Dryden.

One of the Blastoidea.

ydroids, an imperfect zooid, whose special function is to produce medusoid buds. See Hydroidea, and Athecata.

A small fresh-water fish (Uranidea Richardsoni); the miller's thumb.

A division of the Crinoidea, including those furnished with long jointed arms. See Crinoidea.

A class of Molluscoidea having a symmetrical bivalve shell, often attached by a fleshy peduncle.

Any species of ophiuran starfishes. See Ophiuroidea.