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A sneer; a flout. [Obs.]

belonging to the Abdominales; as, abdominal fishes. Abdominal ring (Anat.), a fancied ringlike opening on each side of the abdomen, external and superior to the pubes; -- called also inguinal ring.

A winglike organ, or part.

Wing-shaped; winglike.

A circular or ringlike formation; a ring or belt. Nicholson.

Furnished with, or composed of, rings or ringlike segments; ringed.

A ring; a ringlike part or space.

Destitute of winglike membranous expansions, as a stem or petiole; -- opposed to atate.

A large hoglike quadruped (Sus, or Porcus, babirussa) of the East Indies, sometimes domesticated; the Indian hog. Its upper canine teeth or tusks are large and recurved.

One of several lepidopterous insects which construct, in the larval state, a baglike case which they carry about for protection. One species (Platoeceticus Gloveri) feeds on the orange tree. See Basket worm.

Froglike. Specifically: Of or pertaining to the Batrachidæ, a family of marine fishes, including the toadfish. Some have poisonous dorsal spines.

A hoglike mammal of New Guinea (Porcula papuensis).

Having the form of a cæcum, or bag with one opening; baglike; as, the cæcal extremity of a duct.

eflecting telescope, part of which is made to rotate eccentrically, so as to produce a ringlike image of a star, instead of a point; -- used in studying the scintillation of the stars.

The jointed, leglike organs of Cirripedia. See Annelida, and Polychæta.

A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with esophagus.

Widening into a lamina or into lateral winglike appendages.

A group of spiders having only two lunglike organs. [Written also Dipneumones.]

Any leglike appendage of a crustacean, when modified wholly, or in part, to serve as a jaw, esp. one of the maxillipeds.

In games, a zero; a score or record of naught; -- so named in allusion to the egglike outline of the zero sign 0. Called also duck egg. [Slang]