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n. [ L. aegilopis, Gr. a'igi`lwps, fr. a'i`x, gen. a'igo`s, goat + 'w`ps eye. ] 1. (Med.) An ulcer or fistula in the inner corner of the eye. [ Written also egilops ] AS [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) (a) The great wild-oat grass or other cornfield weed. Crabb. (b) [ capitalized ] A genus of plants, called also hardgrass. [ Written also egilops ] [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

(Chem.) Same as Ethiops mineral. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'a`mpelos vine + 'o`psis appearance. ] (Bot.) A genus formerly including the Virginia creeper. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Amylum + Gr. &unr_; appearance. ] (Physiol. Chem.) The diastase of the pancreatic juice. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. 1 a genus consisting of one species: the yerba mansa.
Syn. -- genus Anemopsis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1 a fish having a luminous organ beneath eye; it inhabits warm waters of the West Pacific and Puerto Rico. It is called also flashlight fish.
Syn. -- flashlight fish [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ ‖ } a. [ Gr. 'an priv. + 'o`psis sight. ] (Med.) Defect or absence of sight; blindness. [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

{ } a. Pertaining to autopsy; autoptical. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Auto- + Gr. &unr_; the itch. ] (Med.) That which is given under the doctrine of administering a patient's own virus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; seen by one's self; &unr_; self + &unr_; seen: cf. F. autopsie. See Optic, a. ] 1. Personal observation or examination; seeing with one's own eyes; ocular view. [ 1913 Webster ]

By autopsy and experiment. Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) Dissection of a dead body, for the purpose of ascertaining the cause, seat, or nature of a disease; a post-mortem examination. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , a. } [ Gr. bi`os life + psychic, -cal. ] Pertaining to psychical phenomena in their relation to the living organism or to the general phenomena of life. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. the class of plants comprising the true mosses, having leafy rather than thalloid gametophytes; it comprises the orders Andreaeales; Bryales; Dicranales; Eubryales; and Sphagnales.
Syn. -- class Bryopsida, Musci, class Musci. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. pref. kalli- (fr. kalo`s beautiful) + 'o`psis appearance. ] (Bot.) A popular name given to a few species of the genus Coreopsis, especially to Coreopsis tinctoria of Arkansas. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Caryopsis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Caryopses [ NL., fr. gr. &unr_; hut, kernel + &unr_; sight, form. ] (Bot.) A one-celled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are incorporated in one body, forming a single grain, as of wheat, barley, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus of evergreen trees and shrubs of warm regions valued for their foliage; found in southeastern U.S. and eastern Australia and northern New Zealand.
Syn. -- genus Castanopsis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a suborder of extinct animals including triceratops.
Syn. -- suborder Ceratopsia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. any of several four-footed herbivorous horned dinosaurs with enormous beaked skulls, of the late Cretaceous in North America and Mongolia.
Syn. -- horned dinosaur. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. an extinct family of American ceratopsian dinosaurs.
Syn. -- family Ceratopsidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a genus of clinid fishes consisting of the pikeblennies.
Syn. -- genus Chaenopsis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. pl. [ See Chop a jaw. ] 1. The jaws; also, the fleshy parts about the mouth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The sides or capes at the mouth of a river, channel, harbor, or bay; as, the chops of the English Channel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. chopstick /sing> 1. a pair of slender sticks made of wood, ivory, plastic, etc., used chiefly by the Chinese and Japanese to lift food into the mouth while dining; -- also commonly used around the world by persons of Oriental heritage or in restaurants serving oriental food. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. same as coniferophyta.
Syn. -- class Coniferopsida, Coniferophytina, subdivision Coniferophytina, Coniferophyta. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ AS. cops, cosp, fetter. ] The connecting crook of a harrow. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Contr. from coppice. ] A wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. See Coppice. [ 1913 Webster ]

Near yonder copse where once the garden smiled. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To trim or cut; -- said of small trees, brushwood, tufts of grass, etc. Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To plant and preserve, as a copse. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Brushwood; coppice. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Characterized by copses. “Copsy villages.” “Copsy banks.” J. Dyer. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. [ NL., fr. Gr. ko`ris bug + 'o`psis appearance. ] (Bot.) A genus of herbaceous composite plants, having the achenes two-horned and remotely resembling some insect; tickseed. Coreopsis tinctoria, of the Western plains, the commonest plant of the genus, has been used in dyeing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. small genus of deciduous shrubs of temperate regions of Asia.
Syn. -- genus Corylopsis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Sick from excess in eating or drinking. [ Obs. ] “Cropsick drunkards.” Tate. -- Crop"sick`ness, n. [Obs.] Whitlock. [1913 Webster]

n. a class or subdivision of plants comprising palmlike gymnosperms: it includes the surviving order Cycadales and several extinct orders; possibly not a natural group; in some systems considered a class (Cycadopsida) and in others a subdivision (Cycadophytina or Cycadophyta).
Syn. -- class Cycadopsida, subdivision Cycadophytina, subdivision Cycadophyta. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. sing. & pl. [ L. Cyclops, Gr. Ky`klwps (strictly round-eyed), pl. Ky`klwpes; ky`klos circle + 'w`ps eye. ] 1. (Gr. Myth.) One of a race of giants, sons of Neptune and Amphitrite, having but one eye, and that in the middle of the forehead. They were fabled to inhabit Sicily, and to assist in the workshops of Vulcan, under Mt. Etna. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Pope, in his translation of the “Odyssey, ” uniformly spells this word Cyclop, when used in the singular. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A genus of minute Entomostraca, found both in fresh and salt water. See Copepoda. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A portable forge, used by tinkers, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. di- = di`s- twice + &unr_; a sight, fr. the root of &unr_; I shall see: cf. F. diopside. ] (Min.) A crystallized variety of pyroxene, of a clear, grayish green color; mussite. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Dropsy. ] 1. Diseased with dropsy; hydropical; tending to dropsy; as, a dropsical patient. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to dropsy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of being dropsical. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Diseased with drops. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Dropsies [ OE. dropsie, dropesie, OF. idropisie, F. hydropisie, L. hydropisis, fr. Gr. &unr_; dropsy, fr. &unr_; water. See Water, and cf. Hydropsy. ] (Med.) An unnatural collection of serous fluid in any serous cavity of the body, or in the subcutaneous cellular tissue. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. dry^s oak + ba`lanos acorn + 'o`psis appearance. The fruit remotely resembles an acorn in its cup. ] (Bot.) The genus to which belongs the single species Dryobalanops Camphora, a lofty resinous tree of Borneo and Sumatra, yielding Borneo camphor and camphor oil. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Ægilops.

n. [ L. elops, helops, a kind of sea fish, Gr. &unr_;. ] 1. (Zoöl.) A genus of fishes. See Saury. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A mythical serpent. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. [ NL. See Ethiop. ] (Old Chem.) A black substance; -- formerly applied to various preparations of a black or very dark color. [ Written also æthiops. ] [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Ethiops martial (Old Chem.), black oxide of iron. --
Ethiops mineral (Old Chem.), black sulphide of mercury, obtained by triturating mercury with sulphur. --
Ethiops per se (Old Chem.), mercury in finely divided state, having the appearance of a dark powder, obtained by shaking it up or by exposure to the air.

n. one of the genera of mastiff bats, of the family Molossidae.
Syn. -- genus Eumops. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. (Naut.) the topsail on a foremast. See Sail. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Naut.) A small triangular sail having its foot extended upon the gaff and its luff upon the topmast. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A division of trees comprising the ginkgos. In some systems it is classified as a class (Ginkgopsida) and in others as a subdivision (Ginkgophytina or Ginkgophyta); used in some classifications for one of five subdivisions of Gymnospermophyta.
Syn. -- Ginkgopsida, class Ginkgopsida, subdivision Ginkgophytina. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A genus of North American terrestrial orchids usually included in the genus Habenaria.
Syn. -- genus Gymnadeniopsis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ ‖ } n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; half + Gr. &unr_; sight. ] (Med.) A defect of vision in consequence of which a person sees but half of an object looked at. [ 1913 Webster ]