Fairy

n.

An imaginary supernatural being or spirit, supposed to assume a human form (usually diminutive), either male or female, and to meddle for good or evil in the affairs of mankind; a fay. See Elf, and Demon.

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Caecilian

n.

A limbless amphibian belonging to the order Caeciliae or Ophimorpha. See Ophiomorpha.

Scapolite

n.

A grayish white mineral occuring in tetragonal crystals and in cleavable masses. It is essentially a silicate of alumina and soda.

Pain

n.

Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; bodily distress; bodily suffering; an ache; a smart.

Calced

a.

Wearing shoes; calceated; -- in distintion from discalced or barefooted; as the calced Carmelites.

Grandiloquous

a.

Grandiloquent.

Jacobinizing

p. pr. & vb. n.

of Jacobinize

Lieberkuhn's glands

The simple tubular glands of the small intestines; -- called also crypts of Lieberkuhn.

Honorary

a.

Holding a title or place without rendering service or receiving reward; as, an honorary member of a society.

Jewstone

n.

A large clavate spine of a fossil sea urchin.

Hyperbolically

adv.

With exaggeration; in a manner to express more or less than the truth.

Flake

n.

A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, tallow, or fish.

Rhamphothecae

pl.

of Rhamphotheca