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Any system of rules or regulations relating to one subject; as, the medical code, a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians; the naval code, a system of rules for making communications at sea means of signals. Code civil or Code Napoleon, a code enacted in France in 1803 and 1804, e…

A joint defendant. Blackstone.

and regarded as a derivative of morphine, but much feebler in its action; -- called also codeia.

A short passage connecting two sections, but not forming part of either; a short coda.

A collection or digest of laws; a code. Burrill.

An alkaloid, , prepared from codeine. In its effects it resembles apomorphine.

An evil spirit; a devil or demon. Shak.

One of a tribe of beetles (Malacodermata), with a soft and flexible body, as the fireflies.

Any bird of the genus Manucodia, of Australia and New Guinea. They are related to the bird of paradise.

The telegraphic code, consisting of dots, dashes, and spaces, invented by Samuel B. Morse. The Alphabetic code which is in use in North America is given below. In length, or duration, one dash is theoretically equal to three dots; the space between the elements of a letter is equal to one dot; the interval in spaced le…

A genus of microörganisms of which the acetic ferment (Mycoderma aceti), which converts alcoholic fluids into vinegar, is a representative. Cf. Mother.

A suborder of fishes of which Ostracion is the type.

One of the Placodermi.

Of or pertaining to the placoderms; like the placoderms.

Same as Placodermi.

An extinct group of fishes, supposed to be ganoids. The body and head were covered with large bony plates. See Illust. under Pterichthys, and Coccosteus.

A name applied by Dujardin in 1835 to the gelatinous material forming the bodies of the lowest animals; protoplasm.

A fleshy covering of a seed, lying between the external and internal integuments.

The positive electrode of an electrolytic cell; anode. [R.] Miller.

The unwritten code of moral principles regulating the actions of the Japanese knighthood, or Samurai; the chivalry of Japan.