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A shop where toys are sold.

The special cell in red algæ which produces or bears a trichogyne. See Illust. of Trichogyne.

One of the Trichoptera.

A suborder of Neuroptera usually having the wings covered with minute hairs. It comprises the caddice flies, and is considered by some to be a distinct order.

One of the Trichoptera.

Of, pertaining to, or characterizing, the Trichoptera.

To deprive, as a city, of a bishop; to deprive, as a clergyman, of episcopal dignity or rights. [R.] "Then he unbishops himself." Milton.

Not hoped or expected. "With unhoped success." Dryden. Blessings of friends, which to my door Unasked, unhoped, have come. J. N. Newman.

Unhoped; unexpected.

Want of hope; despair; also, faint or delusive hope; delusion. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. "Wanhope and distress." Chaucer.

To throw one's self quickly, or by an abrupt motion; to turn suddenly; as, she whapped down on the floor; the fish whapped over. Bartlett.

Something uncommonly large of the kind; something astonishing; -- applied especially to a bold lie. [Colloq.]

Very large; monstrous; astonishing; as, a whapping story. [Colloq.]

Same as Whap. Forby.

One who, or that which, whops.

A shop where any manufacture or handiwork is carried on.

The yellow pigment present in the inner segments of the retina in animals. See Chromophane.

A yellow coloring matter found in yellow autumn leaves, and also produced artificially from chlorophyll; -- formerly called also phylloxanthin.

Having a yellow stipe, or stem.

Pertaining to, or derived from, xanthoprotein; showing the characters of xanthoprotein; as, xanthoproteic acid; the xanthoproteic reaction for albumin.