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GLOSSARY. 



Dixubitory. Inclining sideways; fitted 

 to a leaning: posture. 



Discursive. Moving or roving about. 



Disgorge. To eject or discharge from 

 the stomach, throat, or mouth. 



Dishevelled. Spread out loosely and in 

 disorder. 



Dishorned. Stripped of horns. 



Disinfected. Cleansed from infection. 



Disintegrated. Separated into integrant 

 parts without chemical action. 



Disjunct. When the head, trunk, and 

 abdomen of an insect are separated by 

 a deep incisure. 



Dislocate. To put out of joint. In ge- 

 ology, the displacement of parts of 

 rocks, or portions of strata, from the 

 situations which they originally occu- 

 pied. 



Dismemberment. The act of severing a 

 limb or limbs from the body ; separa- 

 tion of the members ; mutilation. 



Disorganize. To break or destroy organ- 

 ic structure. 



Displumed. Stripped or deprived of 

 plumes or feathers. 



Distichous. When the joints of the an- 

 tennae generally terminate in a fork. 



Distinct. When spots, &c. do not touch 

 or run into each other, but are com- 

 pletely separate. 



Divaricate; Divaricated. Standing out 

 very wide ; spreading out widely. 

 When wings of insects at rest are 

 somewhat erect, but diverge from each 

 other. 



Divarication. A crossing or intersection 

 of fibres at different angles. 



Diverging. Tending to different parts 

 from one point. 



Doe. The female of the fallow-deer. 



Dormant. Sleeping ; in a state of rest 

 and inaction. 



Dorsal Pertaining to the back; adher- 

 ing to the back ; as the dorsal fin of a 

 fish. A dorsal shell is one placed on 

 the back of the animal. The dorsal 

 part of a bivalve shell is that on which 

 the hinge is placed ; the opposite mar- 

 gins are termed ventral: the dorsal 

 surface of a spiral univalve is that 

 which is seen when the aperture is 

 turned from the observer. 



Dorsibranchiate. Having gills attached 



to the back, as in Mollusca belonging 

 to the Dorsibranchiata. 



Dorso-intestinal. A part which is on 

 the dorsal aspect of the intestines. 



Dorsum. In conchology, the back or up- 

 per outward surface of the bodv of the 

 shell, when laid upon the aperture or 

 opening. 



Dove-cot. A small building or box in 

 which domestic pigeons breed. 



Drake. The male of the duck kind. 



Dredge. A drag-net for taking oysters 

 and other Mollusca. 



Duodenum. The first portion of the 

 small intestines. 



Duplicate-pectinate. When the antennae 

 are bipectinate with the branches on 

 each side alternately long and short 



Duplicatile. Folded transversely, as the 

 wings of some coleopterous insects. 



Duplications (generally of the skin). Reg- 

 ular wrinkles or folds. 



E. 



Ecdysis. A sloughing or moulting of 

 the skin, as in serpents and caterpillars. 



Echinated. Set with spines, or bristled, 

 like a hedgehog ; when the surface is 

 covered with pustules produced into 

 spines. 



Echinite. A calcareous petrifaction of 

 the echinus or sea-hedgehog. 



Edentulous. Toothless. 



Edentate; Edentated. Destitute or de- 

 prived of teeth. 



Edriophthalma. The Crustacea with ses- 

 sile eyes. 



Efflorescent. Shooting into white spicu- 

 lag, forming a white dust on the sur- 

 face. 



Effuse. Having the lips (of a shell) sep- 

 arated by a groove or channel. 



Egest. To void, as excrement. 



Egg. A body found in the females of 

 birds and certain other animals, con- 

 taining an embryo or foetus of the 

 same species, or a substance from 

 which a like animal is produced. The 

 eggs of fish and some other animals 

 are united by a viscous substance, 

 and called spawn. Most reptiles and 

 insects are oviparous. 



Eject. To discharge through the natural 





