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A shekel. [Obs.] The holy mother brought five sicles and a pair of turtledoves to redeem the Lamb of God. Jer. Taylor.

A icicle. [Obs.]

A little bone; as, the auditory ossicles in the tympanum of the ear.

A little or subordinate thesis; a proposition.

response from the people. The psalms were in number fifteen, . . . being digested into versicles. Strype.

A bladderlike vessel; a membranous cavity; a cyst; a cell. Specifically: --(a) (Bot.)

A larval entozoön in the form of a subglobular or oval vesicle, or hy datid, filled with fluid, sometimes found in the tissues of man and the lower animals; -- so called from the absence of a head or visible organs on the vesicle. These cysts are the immature stages of certain tapeworms. Also applied to similar cysts o…

Next to the ambulacra; as, the adambulacral ossicles of the starfish.

Positive; dogmatic. [Obs.] J. Taylor. Lysicles was a little by the affirmative air of Crito. Berkeley.

, and reptiles, -- in mammals serving to connect the fetus with the parent; the urinary vesicle.

A small depression, sac, or vesicle, as the socket of a tooth, the air cells of the lungs, the ultimate saccules of glands, etc.

Of or pertaining to ambulacra; avenuelike; as, the ambulacral ossicles, plates, spines, and suckers of echinoderms.

The colored ring around the nipple, or around a vesicle or pustule.

The five united jaws and accessory ossicles of certain sea urchins.

It is obtained from the balm of Gilead (or balsam) fir (Abies balsamea) by breaking the vesicles upon the trunk and branches. See Balm.

Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid.

A genus (Utricularia) of aquatic or marshy plants, which usually bear numerous vesicles in the divisions of the leaves. These serve as traps for minute animals. See Ascidium.

The germinal vesicle.

A large vesicle or bulla, usually containing a serous fluid; a blister; a bubble, as in water, glass, etc. Arsenic abounds with air blebs. Kirwan.

A vesicle of the skin, containing watery matter or serum, whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a vesicatory; a collection of serous fluid causing a bladderlike elevation of the cuticle. And painful blisters swelled my tender hands. Grainger.