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A suborder of Cephalopoda including Octopus, Argonauta, and allied genera, having eight arms around the head; -- called also Octopoda.

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  • CALLOSUM
    The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
  • CALLOW
    1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • CALLE
    A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • EIGHTFOLD
    Eight times a quantity.
  • ALLICIENT
    That attracts; attracting. -- n.
  • ALLINEATION; ALINEEATION
    Alignment; position in a straight line, as of two planets with the sun. Whewell. The allineation of the two planets. C. A. Young.
  • ALLITERAL
    Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration.
  • GENERABILITY
    Capability of being generated. Johnstone.
  • GENERALIZED
    Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.
  • GENERALIZABLE
    Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge
  • OCTOPODA
    Same as Octocerata. Same as Arachnida.
  • HAVELOCK
    A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
  • GENERA
    See GENUS
  • ALLITERATOR
    One who alliterates.
  • EIGHTEEN
    Eight and ten; as, eighteen pounds.
  • OCTOPUS
    A genus of eight-armed cephalopods, including numerous species, some of them of large size. See Devilfish,
  • GENERANT
    Generative; producing; esp. ,
  • ALLIED
    United; joined; leagued; akin; related. See Ally.
  • GALLIASS
    See GALLEASS
  • FREIGHT
    1. That with which anything in fraught or laden for transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.; as, a freight of cotton; a full freight. The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use
  • DALLIANCE
    1. The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play. Look thou be true, do not give dalliance Too mnch the rein. Shak. O, the dalliance and the wit, The flattery and the strifeTennyson. 2. Delay or procrastination.
  • MAJOR GENERAL
    . An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.
  • GYMNASTICALLY
    In a gymnastic manner.
  • KAKARALLI
    A kind of wood common in Demerara, durable in salt water, because not subject to the depredations of the sea worm and barnacle.
  • HYPERCRITICALLY
    In a hypercritical manner.
  • SLEIGHTLY
    Cunningly. Huloet.
  • UNEMPIRICALLY
    Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
  • SCALLION
    A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.
  • CORALLIGENOUS
    producing coral; coraligerous; coralliferous. Humble.
  • UNREGENERACY
    The quality or state of being unregenerate. Glanvill.
  • COUNTER WEIGHT
    A counterpoise.
  • UNIVOCALLY
    In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall.
  • REALLIANCE
    A renewed alliance.
  • IMPALLID
    To make pallid; to blanch. Feltham.

 

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