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A garfish. Johnson.

A retailer of vegetables or fruits in their fresh or green state.

See Grit, n., 4.

A trader who deals in tea, sugar, spices, coffee, fruits, and various other commodities. Grocer's itch (Med.), a disease of the akin, caused by handling sugar and treacle.

The commodities sold by grocers, as tea, coffee, spices, etc.; -- in the United States almost always in the plural form, in this sense. A deal box . . . to carry groceries in. Goldsmith. The shops at which the best families of the neighborhood bought grocery and millinery. Macaulay.

A process of hardening the face of steel, as armor plates, invented by Hayward A. Harvey of New Jersey, consisting in the additional carburizing of the face of a piece of low carbon steel by subjecting it to the action of carbon under long-continued pressure at a very high heat, and then to a violent chilling, as by a…

A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily.

The power of producing two kinds of reproductive bodies, as in Amphicarpæa, in which besides the usual pods, there are others underground.

Characterized by heterocarpism.

Bearing two kinds of heads or capitula; -- said of certain composite plants.

A division of Lepidoptera, including the moths, and hawk moths, which have the antennæ variable in form.

Having the vertebral column evidently continued into the upper lobe of the tail, which is usually longer than the lower one, as in sharks.

Unequal development of the tail lobes of fishes; the possession of a heterocercal tail.

Having the central florets of a flower head of a different color from those of the circumference.

In evolution, a deviation from the typical sequence in the formation of organs or parts.

Deviating from ordinary forms or rules; irregular; anomalous; abnormal.

Deviating from ordinary forms or rules; irregular; anomalous; abnormal.

Heteroclitic. [Obs.]

A cell larger than the others, and of different appearance, occurring in certain algæ related to nostoc.

Government by ecclesiastics; a hierarchy. Jefferson.