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, for plating certain silver goods, and somewhat in dentistry. It was so named in 1804 by Wollaston from the asteroid Pallas, which was discovered in 1802. Symbol Pd. Atomic weight, 106.2.

s in man and some other animals, and supposed to be a remnant of the anterior part of the Wolffian body.

r the corresponding part of the excretory duct of the testicle, which is derived from the Wolffian body.

A group of tubules, a remnant of the Wolffian body, often found near the ovary or oviduct; the epoöphoron.

To direct toward an abject; to aim; as, to point a gun at a wolf, or a cannon at a fort.

a vessel, to prevent grain, etc., from shifting. Pouch mouth, a mouth with blubbered or swollen lips.

Having internal cheek pouches; as, the pouched squirrels. Pouched dog. (Zoöl.) See Zebra wolf, under Zebra. -- Pouched frog (Zoöl.), the nototrema, the female of which has a dorsal pouch in which the eggs are hatched, and in which the young pass through their brief tadpole stage. -- Pouched gopher, or Pouched rat. (Z…

The penalty ascribed for the offense of præmunire. Wolsey incurred a præmunire, and forfeited his honor, estate, and life. South.

oat and spots along the sides, black; three outer tail feathers partly white. -- Prairie wolf. (Zoöl.) See Coyote.

discourse; to utter in a sermon or a formal religious harangue. That Cristes gospel truly wolde preche. Chaucer. The Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek. Isa. lxi. 1.

One of the veins of the neck when swollen with anger or other excitement. [Obs.]

allied to the hyenas, but smaller and having weaker jaws and teeth. It includes the aard-wolf.

Accustomed to prowl, or engaged in roving stealthily, as for prey. "A prowling wolf." Milton. -- Prowl"ing*ly, adv.

An arctic sea bird Fratercula arctica) allied to the auks, and having a short, thick, swollen beak, whence the name; -- called also bottle nose, cockandy, coulterneb, marrot, mormon, pope, and sea parrot.

r them quarter for their lives. Clarendon. Cocks and lambs . . . at the mercy of cats and wolves . . . must never expect better quarter. L'Estrange.

The wolverine.

eing rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves.

be greedy; to show rapacity. [Written also ravin, and ravine.] Benjamin shall raven as a wolf. Gen. xlix. 27.

Greedily devouring; rapacious; as, ravening wolves. -- Rav"en*ing*ly, adv.

ouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture.