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A small protuberance or nozzle resembling the teat of an animal.

Having protuberances resembling the teat of an animal.

See Tath. [Prov. Eng.]

Peevish; tettish; fretful; -- said of a child. See Tettish. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Furnished with, or having, two bracts.

Having a bract or bracts.

Without bracts.

A massive variety of talc, of a grayish green or brown color. It forms extensive beds, and is quarried for fireplaces and for coarse utensils. Called also potstone, lard stone, and soapstone.

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, steatite; containing or resembling steatite.

A cyst containing matter like suet.

Of the nature of steatoma.

A remarkable accretion of fat upon the buttocks of Africans of certain tribes, especially of Hottentot women.

Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton.

Having three bracts.

The condition of having two mammæ or teats.

e other mammalia, in which milk is secreted for the nourishment of the young; a mammma; a teat. My brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother. Cant. viii. 1.

it, a pit in which chalk is dug. -- Drawing chalk. See Crayon, n., 1. -- French chalk, steatite or soapstone, a soft magnesian mineral. -- Red chalk, an indurated clayey ocher containing iron, and used by painters and artificers; reddle.

A teat, pap, or nipple; -- formerly that of a human mother, now that of a cow or other beast. With mother's dug between its lips. Shak.

An order of mammals including the armadillos, sloths, and anteaters; -- called also Bruta. The incisor teeth are rarely developed, and in some groups all the teeth are lacking.

A nocturnal bird of South America and Trinidad (Steatornis Caripensis, or S. steatornis); -- called also oilbird.