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with a piece of bright lead, bone, or other substance, fastened on its shank to imitate a squid. Flying squid, Giant squid. (Zoöl.) See under Flying, and Giant. -- Squid hound (Zoöl.), the striped bass.

wice and a half as great (as another thing); having the ratio of two and a half to one. Sesquiduplicate ratio (Math.), the ratio of two and a half to one, or one in which the greater term contains the lesser twice and a half, as that of 50 to 20.

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

A genus of gigantic cephalopods, allied to the squids, found esp. in the North Atlantic and about New Zealand.

, within the flesh of back, shaped very much like a quill pen. In America they are called squids. See Squid.

The division of Cephalopoda which includes the squids, cuttlefishes, and others having ten arms or tentacles; -- called also Decapoda. [Written also Decacera.] See Dibranchiata.

A division of the dibranchiate cephalopods including the cuttlefishes and squids. See Decacera.

fluid, and either eight or ten cephalic arms bearing suckers or hooks, as the octopi and squids. See Cephalopoda.

s), found in Japan. It is the largest of living Amphibia, becoming a yard long. -- Giant squid (Zoöl.), one of several species of very large squids, belonging to Architeuthis and allied genera. Some are over forty feet long.

The internal shell, or pen, of cephalopods like the squids.

wall. -- Hook motion (Steam Engin.), a valve gear which is reversed by V hooks. -- Hook squid, any squid which has the arms furnished with hooks, instead of suckers, as in the genera Enoploteuthis and Onychteuthis. -- Hook wrench, a wrench or spanner, having a hook at the end, instead of a jaw, for turning a bolthea…

A genus of cephalopods, including numerous species of squids, common on the coasts of America and Europe. They are much used for fish bait.

The internal shell of a squid.

A squid.

The pen of a squid. See Pen.

A squid of the genus Ommastrephes. See Squid.

Any large cephalopod, as a large Octopus, or a giant squid (Architeuthis). See Devilfish.

The clusters of gelatinous egg capsules of a squid (Loligo).

A squid.