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A name applied to various skin diseases, but especially to ringworm. See Ringworm, and Sycosis.

Any species of Tinea, or of the family Tineidæ, which includes numerous small moths, many of which are injurious to woolen and fur goods and to cultivated plants. Also used adjectively.

Of or pertaining to Palestine.

Of or pertaining to the pecten.

The bee moth, or wax moth (Galleria).

carpets and other woolen goods. There are several kinds. Some are the larvæ of species of Tinea (as T. tapetzella); others of beetles, esp. Anthrenus. -- Carpet snake (Zoöl.), an Australian snake. See Diamond snake, under Diamond. -- Carpet sweeper, an apparatus or device for sweeping carpets. -- To be on the carpet…

Prior. Body clothes. See under Body. -- Clothes moth (Zoöl.), a small moth of the genus Tinea. The most common species (T. flavifrontella)is yellowish white. The larvæ eat woolen goods, furs, feathers, etc. They live in tubular cases made of the material upon which they feed, fastened together with silk.…

t to show, -- a past indeed, much larger; but its immensity is dynamic, not divine. J. Martineau. The vowel is produced by phonetic, not by dynamic, causes. J. Peile.

hose animal passions which vice had . . . enhungered to feed on innocence and life. J. Martineau.

prehension of him is first-hand and direct; and that is the sphere of our own mind. J. Martineau.

shoes, etc. -- Grain moth (Zoöl.), one of several small moths, of the family Tineidæ (as Tinea granella and Butalis cereAlella), whose larvæ devour grain in storehouses. -- Grain side (Leather), the side of a skin or hide from which the hair has been removed; -- opposed to flesh side. -- Grains of paradise, the seed…

To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces. H. Martineau.

will the serene light of God flow upon us, and the blue infinite embrace us again. J. Martineau.

alf-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames. J. & H. Smith. H. Martineau.

s that they seem like the punctual stops counting off our very souls into the past. J. Martineau.

Straight; consisting of a straight line or lines; bounded by straight lines; as, a rectineal angle; a rectilinear figure or course. -- Rec`ti*lin"e*al*ly, adv. -- Rec`ti*lin"e*ar*ly, adv.

curs either on the body, the face, or the scalp. Different varieties are distinguished as Tinea circinata, Tinea tonsurans, etc., but all are caused by the same parasite (a species of Trichophyton).

cts were the system of Locke, the scepsis of Hume, the critical philosophy of kant. J. martineau.

of order, so that work is not done smoothly; as, there is a screw loose somewhere. H. Martineau. -- Endless, or perpetual screw, a screw used to give motion to a toothed wheel by the action of its threads between the teeth of the wheel; -- called also a worm. -- Lag screw. See under Lag. -- Micrometer screw, a scre…

A little or petty sect. [R.] "Some new sect or sectiuncle." J. Martineau.