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A kind of printing type, in size between Pica and Great Primer. See Type.

Any external topical application to the body, except ointments and plasters, as a poultice, lotion, etc.

A genus of shrubs or small trees of the Flax family, growing in tropical countries. E. Coca is the source of cocaine. See Coca.

A group which includes the typical copepods and the lerneans.

A genus of mytraceous plants, mostly of tropical countries, and including several aromatic trees and shrubs, among which are the trees which produce allspice and cloves of commerce.

A group which includes the typical Isopoda.

The division of Aves which includes all the typical birds, or all living birds except the penguins and birds of ostrichlike form.

A metallic element of the rare-earth group, discovered spectroscopically by Demarcay in 1896. Symbol, Eu; at. wt., 152.0.

s. They are usually found in humid soil, sometimes grow epiphytically on trees, and in tropical climates often attain a gigantic size.

Representing by a figure, or by resemblance; typical; representative. This, they will say, was figurative, and served, by God's appointment, but for a time, to shadow out the true glory of a more divine sanctity. Hooker.

The great willow-herb (Epilobium spicatum).

A large sparoid fish of the Atlantic coast and all tropical seas (Lobotes Surinamensis).

A tropical leguminous bush (Poinciana, or Cæsalpinia, pulcherrima) with prickly branches, and showy yellow or red flowers; -- so named from its having been sometimes used for hedges in the West Indies. Baird.

Absurd; ridiculous; despicable; contemptible. A foolish figure he must make. Prior.

ging ant (Zoöl.), one of several species of ants of the genus Eciton, very abundant in tropical America, remarkable for marching in vast armies in search of food. -- Foraging cap, a forage cap. -- Foraging party, a party sent out after forage.

median ones; swallow-tailed; -- said of many birds. Fork-tailed flycatcher (Zoöl.), a tropical American flycatcher (Milvulus tyrannus). -- Fork-tailed gull (Zoöl.), a gull of the genus Xema, of two species, esp. X. Sabinii of the Arctic Ocean. -- Fork-tailed kite (Zoöl.), a graceful American kite (Elanoides forficat…

A despicable fellow. [Prov. Eng.] Brockett.

Despicable. [Obs.]

enus Lepidosteus, of several species, inhabiting the lakes and rivers of temperate and tropical America.

A white tropical tern (Cygis candida).