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The order of Crustacea which includes the shrimps, lobsters, crabs, etc. Note: They have a carapace, covering and uniting the somites of the head and thorax and inclosing a gill chamber on each side, and usually have five pairs of legs. They are

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The order of Crustacea which includes the shrimps, lobsters, crabs, etc. Note: They have a carapace, covering and uniting the somites of the head and thorax and inclosing a gill chamber on each side, and usually have five pairs of legs. They are divided into two principal groups: Brachyura and Macrura. Some writers recognize a third intermediate between the others.

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  • CARAPACE
    The thick shell or sheild which cover the back of the tortoise, or turtle, the crab, and other crustaceous animals.
  • UNITERABLE
    Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.
  • CHAMBERING
    Lewdness. Rom. xiii. 13.
  • COVER-POINT
    The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
  • THORAX
    The part of the trunk between the neck and the abdomen, containing that part of the body cavity the walls of which are supported by the dorsal vertebræ, the ribs, and the sternum, and which the heart and lungs are situated; the chest. Note: In
  • CHAMBERER
    1. One who attends in a chamber; a chambermaid. Chaucer. 2. A civilian; a carpetmonger.
  • COVERLET
    The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
  • COVERCLE
    A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
  • CHAMBERED
    Having a chamber or chambers; as, a chambered shell; a chambered gun.
  • INCLOSER
    One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land from common grounds.
  • UNITIVE
    Having the power of uniting; causing, or tending to produce, union. Jer. Taylor.
  • UNITARIANISM
    The doctrines of Unitarians.
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • UNITARIANIZE
    To change or turn to Unitarian views.
  • COVERT BARON
    Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
  • COVERTNESS
    Secrecy; privacy.
  • UNIT
    The least whole number; one. Units are the integral parts of any large number. I. Watts. 3. A gold coin of the reign of James I., of the value of twenty shillings. Camden. 4. Any determinate amount or quantity (as of length, time, heat,
  • CHAMBERMAID
    1. A maidservant who has the care of chambers, making the beds, sweeping, cleaning the rooms, etc. 2. A lady's maid. Johnson.
  • UNITABLE
    Capable of union by growth or otherwise. Owen.
  • ORDERLY
    1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton. 2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community. 3. Performed in good
  • RECOVER
    To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
  • PROTHORAX
    The first or anterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Illusts. of Butterfly and Coleoptera.
  • IMBORDER
    To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
  • STAR-CHAMBER
    An ancient high court exercising jurisdiction in certain cases, mainly criminal, which sat without the intervention of a jury. It consisted of the king's council, or of the privy council only with the addition of certain judges. It could proceed
  • CEPHALOTHORAX
    The anterior portion of any one of the Arachnida and higher Crustacea, consisting of the united head and thorax.
  • HAEMATOTHORAX
    See HEMOTHORAX
  • MISORDER
    To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
  • INCHAMBER
    To lodge in a chamber. Sherwood.
  • TRIBUNICIAN; TRIBUNITIAL; TRIBUNITIAN
    Of or pertaining to tribunes; befitting a tribune; as, tribunitial power or authority. Dryden. A kind of tribunician veto, forbidding that which is recognized to be wrong. Hare.

 

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