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A grand division of the animal kingdom, intermediate, in some respects, between the invertebrates and vertebrates, and by some writers united with the latter. They were formerly classed with acephalous mollusks. The body is usually covered with

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A grand division of the animal kingdom, intermediate, in some respects, between the invertebrates and vertebrates, and by some writers united with the latter. They were formerly classed with acephalous mollusks. The body is usually covered with a firm external tunic, consisting in part of cellulose, and having two openings, one for the entrance and one for the exit of water. The pharynx is usually dilated in the form of a sac, pierced by several series of ciliated slits, and serves as a gill. Note: Most of the species when mature are firmly attached to foreign substances, but have free-swimming larvæ which are furnished with an elongated tail and somewhat resemble a tadpole. In this state the larva has a urochord and certain other structures resembling some embryonic vertebrates. See Ascidian, Doliolum, Salpa, Urochord, and Illust. of Social ascidian, under Social.

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  • CLASSIFIC
    Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.
  • CLASSIFICATORY
    Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification. "A classificatory system." Earle.
  • UNITERABLE
    Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.
  • CLASSICISM
    A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley.
  • ANIMALIZATION
    1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.
  • GRANDEUR
    The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action. Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show Of luxury . . . allure mine eye.
  • ANIMALCULISM
    The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.
  • COVER-POINT
    The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
  • CLASSIS
    An ecclesiastical body or judicat (more info) 1. A class or order; sort; kind. His opinion of that classis of men. Clarendon.
  • GRANDEESHIP
    The rank or estate of a grandee; lordship. H. Swinburne.
  • ANIMALITY
    Animal existence or nature. Locke.
  • GRANDMA; GRANDMAMMA
    A grand mother.
  • 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.
  • FORMERLY
    In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
  • ANIMALLY
    Physically. G. Eliot.
  • ANIMALNESS
    Animality.
  • GRANDUNCLE
    father's or mother's uncle.
  • DIVISIONARY
    Divisional.
  • COVERCLE
    A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
  • DIVISIONALLY
    So as to be divisional.
  • BLATTER
    To prate; to babble; to rail; to make a senseless noise; to patter. "The rain blattered." Jeffrey. They procured . . . preachers to blatter against me, . . . so that they had place and time to belie me shamefully. Latimer.
  • FLATTER
    1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
  • RECOVER
    To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
  • BLATTEROON
    A senseless babbler or boaster. "I hate such blatteroons." Howell.
  • BEFLATTER
    To flatter excessively.
  • CLATTERINGLY
    With clattering.
  • GREAT-GRANDFATHER
    The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
  • MISDIVISION
    Wrong division.

 

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