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One of the lateral elements in the centra of the vertebræ in some fossil batrachians.

The foot joint; in birds, the joint between the metatarsus and the toes.

A glass through which objects appear multiplied, but diminished in size. [R.]

The prosencephalon.

s usually prehensile, and the great toe opposable somewhat like a thumb. Formerly the Quadrumana were considered an order distinct from the Bimana, which last included man alone.

One of the Quadrumana.

Having four hands; of or pertaining to the Quadrumana.

members of any body as is competent by law or constitution to transact business; as, a quorum of the House of Representatives; a constitutional quorum was not present.

The Beaks; the stage or platform in the forum where orations, pleadings, funeral harangues, etc., were delivered; -- so called because after the Latin war, it was adorned with the beaks of captured vessels; later, applied also to other platforms erected in Rome for the use of public orators.

A genus of tall tropical grasses including the sugar cane.

That part of the vertebral column which is directly connected with, or forms a part of, the pelvis.

A liturgy, or use, put forth about 1087 by St. Osmund, bishop of Sarum, based on Anglo-Saxon and Norman customs.

See Scrimmage.

Nice; particular; fastidious; excellent; fine. [Slang]

A great blackish seaweed of the Southern Ocean, having a hollow and expanding stem and a pinnate frond, sometimes twenty feet long.

A portion of dead bone which becomes separated from the sound portion, as in necrosis.

eted by the serous membranes of the body, such as the pericardium and peritoneum. Blood serum, the pale yellowish fluid which exudes from the clot formed in the coagulation of the blood; the loquid portion of the blood, after removal of the blood corpuscles and the fibrin. -- Muscle serum, the thin watery fluid which…

The treatment of disease by the injection of blood serum from immune animals.

ance; a sham; -- now usually in a derogatory sense. Beneath it nothing but a great simulacrum. Thackeray.

An instrument consisting of a thin metal frame, through which passed a number of metal rods, and furnished with a handle by which it was shaken and made to rattle. It was peculiarly Egyptian, and used especially in the worship of Isis. It is still used in Nubia.