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A gander. [Written also stag.] [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

One skilled in steganography; a cryptographer.

The art of writing in cipher, or in characters which are not intelligible except to persons who have the key; cryptography.

The Discophora, or Phanerocarpæ. Called also Steganophthalmia.

One of the Steganopodes.

A division of swimming birds in which all four toes are united by a broad web. It includes the pelicans, cormorants, gannets, and others.

Having all four toes webbed together.

Constipation; also, constriction of the vessels or ducts.

A stegnotic medicine; an astringent.

An extinct order of amphibians found fossil in the Mesozoic rocks; called also Stegocephali, and Labyrinthodonta.

An extinct order of herbivorous dinosaurs, including the genera Stegosaurus, Omosaurus, and their allies.

A genus of large Jurassic dinosaurs remarkable for a powerful dermal armature of plates and spines.

A branchiostegal ray. See Illustration of Branchial arches in Appendix.

The branchiostegal membrane. See Illustration in Appendix.

Branchiostegal.

One of the large scales on the belly of a serpent.

One of a pair of broad plates, developed from the outer maxillipeds of crabs, and forming a cover for the other mouth organs.

The part of the carapace of a crustacean situated behind the cervical groove.

One of the plates which in some Crustacea inclose a cavity wherein the eggs are hatched.

One of the plates on the under side of the tail of a serpent.