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The Muse who presided over lyric and amatory poetry.

One who, or that which, accelerates. Also as an adj.; as, accelerator nerves.

Accelerative.

One who adulterates or corrupts. [R.] Cudworth.

That which supplies with air; esp. an apparatus used for charging mineral waters with gas and in making soda water.

One who alliterates.

Asseverative.

A group of nudibranchiate Mollusca having on the back papilliform or branched organs serving as gills.

A ceratobranchial bone, or cartilage.

A genus of ganoid fishes, of the order Dipnoi, first known as Mesozoic fossil fishes; but recently two living species have been discovered in Australian rivers. They have lungs so well developed that they can leave the water and breathe in air. In Australia they are called salmon and baramunda. See Dipnoi, and Archipte…

A ceratohyal bone, or cartilage, which, in man, forms one of the small horns of the hyoid.

A carnivorous American Jurassic dinosaur allied to the European Megalosaurus. The animal was nearly twenty feet in length, and the skull bears a bony horn core on the united nasal bones. See Illustration in Appendix.

An order of sponges in which the skeleton consists of horny fibers. It includes all the commercial sponges.

One who pities.

A confederate. Grafton.

One who considers. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

One who labors jointly with others to promote the same end. "Coöperators with the truth." Boyle.

One who deliberates.

A generator having its revolving part carried on the shaft of the driving engine.

One who enumerates.