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pe or long thong of leather with, a running noose, used for catching horses, cattle, etc. Lasso cell (Zoöl.), one of a peculiar kind of defensive and offensive stinging cells, found in great numbers in all coelenterates, and in a few animals of other groups. They are most highly developed in the tentacles of jellyfishe…

The albuminous material composing the body of a cytode.

The study or science of the life of marine organisms. Agassiz.

One of the peculiar stinging, cells found in Coelenterata; a nematocyst; a lasso cell.

A sheath which surrounds the base of the lasso cells in the Siphonophora.

A long, slender rope made of hemp or strips of hide, esp. one with a noose; -- used as a lasso for catching cattle, horses, etc., and for picketing a horse so that he can graze without wandering. [Mexico & Western U.S.]

A very large marine turtle (Thalassochelys caretta, or caouana), common in the warmer parts of the Atlantic Ocean, from Brazil to Cape Cod; -- called also logger-headed turtle.

A lasso cell, or thread cell. See Lasso cell, under Lasso.

Stinging; irritating. Nettling cell (Zoöl.), a lasso cell. See under Lasso.

To lasso (a steer, horse). [Colloq. U.S.]

nsive zooids of certain hydroids. They have the form of long, slender tentacles, and bear lasso cells.

, stinging cold; a stinging rebuke. -- Sting"ing*ly, adv. Stinging cell. (Zoöl.) Same as Lasso cell, under Lasso.

-- Thread and thrum, the good and bad together. [Obs.] Shak. -- Thread cell (Zoöl.), a lasso cell. See under Lasso. -- Thread herring (Zoöl.), the gizzard shad. See under Gizzard. -- Thread lace, lace made of linen thread. -- Thread needle, a game in which children stand in a row, joining hands, and in which the…

A lasso cell.