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A register or roll showing the order in which officers, enlisted men, companies, or regiments are called on to serve.

One of the Conirostres.

A dentirostral bird.

One of the Longirostres.

One of a tribe of wading birds (Pressirostres) including those which have a compressed beak, as the plovers.

Dejection; depression. [Obs.] Wiseman.

The ventral plate of the prothorax of an insect.

A bird whose beak bends upward, as the avocet.

One of the Tenuirostres.

The sternal, or under piece, of any one of the uromeres of insects and other arthropods.

ferent qualities, color, scenes, or events; esp., to subject to frequent alternations of prosterity and adversity. Our minds are, as it were, checkered with truth and falsehood. Addison.

erotic; e Choroid; f Cillary Muscle; g Cillary Process; h Iris; i Suspensory Ligament; k Prosterior Aqueous Chamber between h and i; l Anterior Aqueous Chamber; m Crystalline Lens; n Vitreous Humor; o Retina; p Yellow spot; q Center of blind spot; r Artery of Retina in center of the Optic Nerve.

Of or pertaining to the pressirosters.

oderms. -- Ring dotterel, or Ringed dotterel. (Zoöl.) See Dotterel, and Illust. of Pressiroster. -- Ring dropper, a sharper who pretends to have found a ring (dropped by himself), and tries to induce another to buy it as valuable, it being worthless. -- Ring fence. See under Fence. -- Ring finger, the third finger…