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A small, retired valley; a ravine. In dells and dales, concealed from human sight. Tickell.

A shortened form of Academia della Crusca, an academy in Florescence, Italy, founded in the 16th century, especially for conversing the purity of the Italian language.

Of or pertaining to the Accademia della Crusca in Florence. The Dellacruscan School, a name given in satire to a class of affected English writers, most of whom lived in Florence, about a. d. 1785.

An unidentified substance mentioned in the Bible (Gen. ii. 12, and Num. xi. 7), variously taken to be a gum, a precious stone, or pearls, or perhaps a kind of amber found in Arabia.

The order of Annulata which includes the leeches. See Hirudinea.

A cupping glass to which are attached a scarificator and an exhausting syringe. Dunglison.

An order of Nemertina, including the large leechlike worms (Malacobdella) often parasitic in clams.

,n.Same as Beadle.

A brothel; a bawdyhouse; a house devoted to prostitution. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A keeper or a frequenter of a brothel. [Obs.] Gower.

A twisted cord; a tassel. Halliwell.

other bivalves. They have a large posterior sucker, like that of a leech. See Illust. of Bdellomorpha.

ck is placed, -- used for public illuminations, as at St. Peter's, in Rome. Called also padelle.

The step, or raised secondary part, of an altar; a superaltar; hence, in Italian painting, a band or frieze of several pictures running along the front of a superaltar, or forming a border or frame at the foot of an altarpiece.

A suborder of leeches including those that have a protractile proboscis, without jaws. Clepsine is the type.

A form of hydrometer for liquids heavier than water, graduated with an arbitrary scale such that the readings when multiplied by .005 and added to unity give the specific gravity.

A thicket; a small wood. "Through bosk and dell." Sir W. Scott.

Full of bushes; overgrowing with shrubs. Dingle, or bushy dell, of this wild wood. Milton.

us (or Vulcan), as being masters of the art of working metals. [Written also Cabeiri.] Liddell & Scott.

upper or lower part of a truss, usually horizontal, resisting compression or tension. Waddell. Accidental, Common, and Vocal chords. See under Accidental, Common, and Vocal. -- Chord of an arch. See Illust. of Arch. -- Chord of curvature, a chord drawn from any point of a curve, in the circle of curvature for that p…