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A roebuck. See Roebuck.

A small European and Asiatic deer (Capreolus capræa) having erect, cylindrical, branched antlers, forked at the summit. This, the smallest European deer, is very nimble and graceful. It always prefers a mountainous country, or high grounds.

Filled with roe.

The roebuck.

Same as Oölite.

The stamens of a flower taken collectively.

A small, oval, transparent jellyfish, belonging to the Ctenophora.

or his vast wealth; hence, a common appellation for a very rich man; as, he is veritable Croesus.

for the passage of the crowfoot, or cords by which an awning is held up. [Written also uphroe and uvrou.] Knight.

An inhabitant, or, collectively, inhabitants, of the Faroe islands.

A dirty woman; a slattern; a frow. [Obs.] "Raging frantic froes." Draylon.

Pertaining to, or derived from, Friedrich Froebel, or the kindergarten system of education, which he organized. -- n.

The operation of cutting into the upper part of the vagina, through the abdomen (without opening the peritoneum), for the purpose of removing a fetus. It is a substitute for the Cæsarean operation, and less dangerous.

Gastrointestinal.

Inflammation of the lining membrane of the stomach and the intestines.

Of or pertaining to the stomach and omentum.

A heroine. [Obs.] Dryden.

One who treats of heroes. [R.] T. Warton.

Passing through the different stages in its life history on an alternation of hosts, as the common wheat-rust fungus (Puccinia graminis), and certain other parasitic fungi; -- contrasted with autocious. -- Het`er*o"cism (#), n.

A disease resembling hysteria in its nature, and characterized by the occurrence of epileptiform convulsions, which can often be controlled or excited by pressure on the ovaries, and upon other definite points in the body. -- Hys`ter*o*ep`i*lep"tic, a.