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A bush; a thick shrub; a bushy clump. [R.] "An ivy todde." Spenser. The ivy tod is heavy with snow. Coleridge.

A toddling walk. Trollope.

One who toddles; especially, a young child. Mrs. Gaskell.

A juice drawn from various kinds of palms in the East Indies; or, a spirituous liquor procured from it by fermentation.

Any one of several species of small insectivorous West Indian birds of the genus Todus. They are allied to the kingfishers.

One who is self-taught; an automath.

Supplying its own power; -- applied to an instrument of the nature of a water-ram.

The germinal membrane in an ovum, from which the embryo is developed.

Of or pertaining to the blastoderm.

A genus of ganoid fishes, of the order Dipnoi, first known as Mesozoic fossil fishes; but recently two living species have been discovered in Australian rivers. They have lungs so well developed that they can leave the water and breathe in air. In Australia they are called salmon and baramunda. See Dipnoi, and Archipte…

Of or pertaining to the Cestoidea. -- n.

A marine fish of the family Chætodontidæ. The chætodonts have broad, compressed bodies, and usually bright colors.

See Custodian.

Relating to custody or guardianship.

One who has care or custody, as of some public building; a keeper or superintendent.

Office or duty of a custodian.

A custodian. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

h, inspection, for keeping, preservation, or security. A fleet of thirty ships for the custody of the narrow seas. Bacon.

A nonnucleated mass of protoplasm, the supposed simplest form of independent life differing from the amoeba, in which nuclei are present.

An extinct Quaternary marsupial from Australia, about as large as the hippopotamus; -- so named because of its two large front teeth. See Illustration in Appendix.