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pl of Mouse.

A theoretical aggregation of molecules constituting a structural particle of protoplasm, capable of increase or diminution without change in chemical nature.

A square of white linen worn at first on the head, but now about the neck and shoulders, by priests of the Roman Catholic Church while saying Mass.

A lateral half of the cerebrum. Wilder.

First fruits. [Obs.] Dryden.

. It is much used, esp. in the form of powder, for smoothing and polishing. Called also pumice stone.

Same as Pumice.

th of soft spongy horn between the coffin bone and the hoof wall. The disease is called pumiced foot, or pumice foot.

Of or pertaining to pumice; resembling pumice.

Of or pertaining to half of a century, or a period of fifty years; as, a semicentennial commemoration.

The flour of a hard and small-grained wheat made into dough, and forced through small cylinders or pipes till it takes a slender, wormlike form, whence the Italian name. When the paste is made in larger tubes, it is called macaroni.

eep red pupil and pink or blue iris. The term is also used of the lower animals, as white mice, elephants, etc.; and of plants in a whitish condition from the absence of chlorophyll. Amer. Cyc.

Same as Amice, a hood or cape.

Amice, a hood or cape. See 2d Amice.

Same as Amice, a hood or cape.

The battle between the frogs and mice; -- a Greek parody on the Iliad, of uncertain authorship.

A hood of other material than mail; esp. (Eccl.), a hood worn in church services, -- the amice, or the like.

Any animal; especially, a wild animal. [Obs.] Chaucer. Mice and rats, and such small deer. Shak. The camel, that great deer. Lindisfarne MS.

A kind of hood worn by the canons of a cathedral church; a sort of amice. Kersey.

One of a group of Australian birds of the genus Falcunculus, resembling shrikes and titmice.