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The posterior opening of the alimentary canal, through which the excrements are expelled.

A glandular organ of bivalve mollusca, serving in part as a kidney.

A long, winding constellation extending southward from Taurus and containing the bright star Achernar.

esented with two faces looking in opposite directions. Numa is said to have dedicated to Janus the covered passage at Rome, near the Forum, which is usually called the Temple of Janus. This passage was open in war and closed in peace. Dr. W. Smith. Janus cloth, a fabric having both sides dressed, the sides being of dif…

Double-faced; deceitful. Janus-faced lock, one having duplicate faces so as to go upon a right or a left hand door, the key entering on either side indifferently. Knight.

Double-headed.

The distal segment of the fore limb, including the carpus and fore foot or hand.

Written with or by the hand; not printed; as, a manuscript volume.

Manuscript. [Obs.]

The god of the great outer sea, or the river which was believed to flow around the whole earth.

A genus of endogenous plants. See Screw pine.

A genus of trees; the plane tree.

A genus of blood sucking flies, including the horseflies.

A painful and usually fatal disease, resulting generally from a wound, and having as its principal symptom persistent spasm of the voluntary muscles. When the muscles of the lower jaw are affected, it is called locked-jaw, or lickjaw, and it takes various names from the various incurvations of the body resulting from t…

The son or husband of Gaia (Earth), and father of Chronos (Time) and the Titans.

A genus of very large lizards native of Asia and Africa. It includes the monitors. See Monitor, 3.

One of the sessile cirripeds; a barnacle of the genus Balanus. See Barnacle.

the Romans, or account of some remarkable exploit or event; as, Publius Caius Scipio Africanus.

mentary substances. Alimentary canal, the entire channel, extending from the mouth to the anus, by which aliments are conveyed through the body, and the useless parts ejected.

An illuminator of manuscripts and books; a limner. [Obs.] Cowell.