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A work; specif. (Mus.), a musical composition.

A small or petty work.

An opuscule. Smart.

A star of the first magnitude in the southern constellation Argo.

A "country" or suffragan bishop, appointed in the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural district.

genus of marsupials including the common kangaroo.

A kind of hard finish for plasterwork, made of plaster of Paris and marble dust, and capable of taking a high polish.

A mope; a drone. [Obs.] Swift.

A genus of eight-armed cephalopods, including numerous species, some of them of large size. See Devilfish,

A hypothetical genus of primates intermediate between man and the anthropoid apes. Haeckel.

An edentate mammal, of the genus Orycteropus, somewhat resembling a pig, common in some parts of Southern Africa. It burrows in the ground, and feeds entirely on ants, which it catches with its long, slimy tongue.

which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata. See Cephalopoda.

A large bivalve shell of the East Indies (Hippopus maculatus), often used as an ornament.

A papilionaceous plant, the Ornithopus, having a curved, cylindrical pod tipped with a short, clawlike point. Bird's-foot trefoil. (Bot.) (a) A genus of plants (Lotus) with clawlike pods. L. corniculatas, with yellow flowers, is very common in Great Britain.

A plant with leaves branched somewhat like a buck's horn (Plantago Coronopus); also, Lobelia coronopifolia.

A plant of the Mint family and genus Lycopus; esp. L. Virginicus, which has mild narcotic and astringent properties, and is sometimes used as a remedy for hemorrhage.

Of pertaining to Canopus in egypt; as, the Canopic vases, used in embalming.

Pertaining to a chorepiscopus or his change or authority.

In the West Indies: (1) Either of the cotton trees Ochroma lagopus and Pariti tiliaceum. (2)

led "gout," on account of the swelled joints. The common European species is Chlorops tæniopus. (b) A small fly (Anthomyia ze) whose larva or maggot destroys seed corn after it has been planted. -- Corn fritter, a fritter having green Indian corn mixed through its batter. [U. S.] -- Corn laws, laws regulating trade in…