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usement, revolving in my mind, with great perplexity, the amazing change of our affairs. Fleetwood.

ncluding the Oligochæta or earthworms and Polychæta or marine worms; and the Hirudinea or leeches. See Chætopoda.

y equivalent to Annelida, including the marine annelids, earthworms, Gephyrea, Gymnotoma, leeches, etc. See Annelida.

hich constitute the contagious matter. It may be transmitted to man by inoculation. The spleen becomes greatly enlarged and filled with bacteria. Called also splenic fever.

Tending to prevent sleep. -- n.

Good as a remedy against disease of the spleen. -- n.

A group of worms without appendages, as the leech.

arty appellant (Law), the party who appeals; appellant; -- opposed to respondent, or appellee. Tomlins.

A person or prosecuted for a crime. [Obs.] See Appellee.

its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words appropriate to express our ideas. Locke.

mischievous; roguish; as, an arch look, word, lad. [He] spoke his request with so arch a leer. Tatler.

hip which carried Jason and his fifty-four companions to Colchis, in quest of the Golden Fleece.

of the legendary Greek heroes who sailed with Jason, in the Argo, in quest of the Golden Fleece.

A fleet of armed ships; a squadron. Specifically, the Spanish fleet which was sent to assail England, a. d. 1558.

To drive or scare off by some exclamation. [R.] "Whiskered cats arointed flee." Mrs. Browning.

rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dormant faculties. Grasping his spear, forth issued to arouse His brother, mighty sovereign on the host. Cowper. No suspicion was aroused. Merivale.

sometimes by to), also by in and from. "Arrived in Padua." Shak. [Æneas] sailing with a fleet from Sicily, arrived . . . and landed in the country of Laurentum. Holland. There was no outbreak till the regiment arrived at Ipswich. Macaulay.

Consisting of arrows. How quick they wheeled, and flying, behind them shot Sharp sleet of arrowy showers. Milton.

To assassinate. [Obs.] Stillingfleet.

en. Sir M. Hale. To assimilate our law to the law of Scotland. John Bright. Fast falls a fleecy; the downy flakes Assimilate all objects. Cowper.