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Same as Lepidosauria.

Having the longer axis inclined away from the vertical line.

Manstealing; kidnaping.

Fond of flogging; as, a plagose master. [R.]

lictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation. Shak. And men blasphemed God for the plague of hail. Wyclif. The different plague of each calamity. Shak.

Abounding, or infecting, with plagues; pestilential; as, plagueful exhalations.

Free from plagues or the plague.

One who plagues or annoys.

In a plaguing manner; vexatiously; extremely. [Colloq.] "Ronsard is so plaguily stiff and stately." Landor.

Vexatious; troublesome; tormenting; as, a plaguy horse. [Colloq.] Also used adverbially; as, "He is so plaguy proud." Shak.

A head or poll tax; hence, extortion. [Obs.] Foxe.

Virginity. [R.]

The state of being a pupil. As sons of kings, loving in pupilage, Have turned to tyrants when they came to power. Tennyson.

That which is undergoing putrefaction; the products of putrefaction.

a deputy of a State at the Amphictyonic council.

A group of Protozoa having both flagella and pseudopodia.

Assemblage a second time or again.

The esculent swallow. See under Esculent.

A genus of cryptogamous plants resembling Lycopodia, but producing two kinds of spores; also, any plant of this genus. Many species are cultivated in conservatories.

llower of John Cassianus, a French monk (died about 448), who modified the doctrines of Pelagius, by denying human merit, and maintaining the necessity of the Spirit's influence, while, on the other hand, he rejected the Augustinian doctrines of election, the inability of man to do good, and the certain perseverance of…