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See 3d Os.

The common soft tissue which unites the polyps of a compound hydroid. See Hydroidea.

The semisolid external layer of protoplasm in some unicellular organisms, as the amoeba; ectoplasm; exoplasm.

The semifluid, granular interior of certain unicellular organisms, as the inner layer of sarcode in the amoeba; entoplasm; endoplasta.

Resembling in form or structure a foraminiferous shell of the genus Nodosaria. -- n. (Zoöl.)

A tumor having the structure of a sacroma in which there is a deposit of bone; sarcoma connected with bone.

A cultivator of roses.

A bed of roses, or place where roses grow. "Thick rosaries of scented thorn." Tennyson.

A little perforated ball, to be strung on a thread, and worn for ornament; or used in a rosary for counting prayers, as by Roman Catholics and Mohammedans, whence the phrases to tell beads, to at one's beads, to bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer.

A string of beads, or part of a string, used by Roman Catholic in praying; a third of a rosary, or fifty beads. Her chaplet of beads and her missal. Longfellow.

A Mohammedan rosary, consisting of ninety-nine beads. Byron.

The ectosarc of protozoan.

Same as Entoplasm and Endosarc.

Endosarc.

See Ectosarc, and Ectoplasm.

One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited. [Obs.] Gower.

e seed of the wild licorice (Abrus precatorius) used by the people of India for beads in rosaries and necklaces, as a standard weight, etc.; -- called also jumble bead.

., supposed by some to be of marine origin, but probably formed by subglacial waters. The osar are similar to the kames of Scotland and the eschars of Ireland. See Eschar.

A rosary, consisting of a hundred and fifty beads, corresponding to the number of the psalms.

A place where roses are cultivated; a nursery of roses. See Rosary, 1.