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a. [ Gr. &unr_; spine + &unr_; wing. ] 1. (Zool.) Spiny-winged. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Acanthopterygious. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Belonging to the order of fishes having spinose fins, as the perch. -- n. A spiny-finned fish. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., from Gr. &unr_; thorn + &unr_; fin, dim. fr. &unr_; wing. ] (Zool.) An order of fishes having some of the rays of the dorsal, ventral, and anal fins unarticulated and spinelike, as the perch. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Having fins in which the rays are hard and spinelike; spiny-finned. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a accepted manner; admittedly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A person who accepts; a taker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A respecter; a viewer with partiality. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

God is no accepter of persons. Chillingworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) An acceptor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a genus of terrestrial ferns of tropical Asia and Africa.
Syn. -- genus Actiniopteris. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The state or quality of being adapted; suitableness; special fitness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who adapts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Chem.) A connecting tube; an adopter. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word. -- A*dopt"ed*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. 1. One who adopts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Chem.) A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another receiver. It is used in distillations, to give more space to elastic vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters. [ Written also adapter. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a highly variable species (Angiopteris evecta) of very large primitive ferns of the Pacific tropical areas with high rainfall.
Syn. -- giant fern [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. 1 the smallest moa (Anomalopteryx oweni); it is a slender moa about the size of a large turkey.
Syn. -- Anomalopteryx oweni. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; invisible ('a priv. + &unr_; to appear) + &unr_; a wing. ] (Zool.) A group of wingless insects, of which the flea in the type. See Flea. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Aphaniptera. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. aptera, fr. Gr. &unr_; without wings; 'a priv. + &unr_; wing, &unr_; to fly. ] (Zool.) Insects without wings, constituting the seventh Linnæn order of insects, an artificial group, which included Crustacea, spiders, centipeds, and even worms. These animals are now placed in several distinct classes and orders. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. (Zool.) Apterous. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Arch.) Without lateral columns; -- applied to buildings which have no series of columns along their sides, but are either prostyle or amphiprostyle, and opposed to peripteral. R. Cyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) One of the Aptera. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Aptera. ] (Zool.) Naked spaces between the feathered areas of birds. See Pteryliæ. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. (Zool.) Destitute of wings; apteral; as, apterous insects. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Destitute of winglike membranous expansions, as a stem or petiole; -- opposed to alate. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Apteryx. ] (Zool.) An order of birds, including the genus Apteryx. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a ratite bird order: flightless ground birds having vestigial wings and long bills and small eyes: kiwis.
Syn. -- order Apterygiformes [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ Gr. 'a priv. + pte`ryx wing. Cf. Aptera. ] (Zool.) A genus of New Zealand birds about the size of a hen, with only short rudiments of wings, armed with a claw and without a tail; the kiwi. It is allied to the gigantic extinct moas of the same country. Five species are known. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Gr. 'archai^os ancient + pte`ryx wing. ] (Paleon.) A fossil bird, of the Jurassic period, remarkable for having a long tapering tail of many vertebræ with feathers along each side, and jaws armed with teeth, with other reptilian characteristics. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. an extinct primitive toothed bird (Archaeopteryx lithographica) of the Upper Jurassic having a long feathered tail and hollow bones; usually considered the most primitive of all known birds. Same as archaeopteryx.
Syn. -- archaeopteryx. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. pref. 'archi- (E. arch-) + ptery`gion wing, fin. ] (Anat.) The primitive form of fin, like that of Ceratodus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who attempts; one who essays anything. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An assailant; also, a temper. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the type genus of the Balaenopteridae.
Syn. -- genus Balaenoptera. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. rorquals; blue whales.
Syn. -- family Balaenopteridae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. ba`sis a base + ptery`gion a fin. ] (Anat.) A bar of cartilage at the base of the embryonic fins of some fishes. It develops into the metapterygium. -- Ba*sip`ter*yg"i*al a. [1913 Webster]

a. & n. [ Basi- + pterygoid. ] (Anat.) Applied to a protuberance of the base of the sphenoid bone. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; short-winged; brachy`s short + &unr_; feather, wing. ] (Zool.) A group of Coleoptera having short wings; the rove beetles. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Brachyptera. ] (Zool.) A group of birds, including auks, divers, and penguins. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; : cf. F. brachyptère. ] (Zool.) Having short wings. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) a scalelike structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
Syn. -- alula. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. [ Gr. &unr_; mirror, fr. &unr_; visible. ] A reflecting optical glass or instrument; a mirror. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. kefalh` head + ptero`n wing. ] (Zool.) One of the generic names of the gigantic ray (Manta birostris) of the family Mobulidae, known as devilfish, sea devil, manta and manta ray. It is common on the coasts of South Carolina, Florida, and farther south, and is sometimes found as far north as New York Bay. Some of them grow to enormous size, becoming twenty feet of more across the body, and weighing more than a ton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) a genus of water ferns.
Syn. -- genus Ceratopteris. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OF. chapitre, F. chapitre, fr. L. capitulum, dim. of caput head, the chief person or thing, the principal division of a writing, chapter. See Chief, and cf, Chapiter. ] 1. A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl.) (a) An assembly of monks, or of the prebends and other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual, or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean.(b) A community of canons or canonesses.(c) A bishop's council.(d) A business meeting of any religious community. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An organized branch of some society or fraternity as of the Freemasons. Robertson. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A meeting of certain organized societies or orders. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A chapter house. [ R. ] Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A decretal epistle. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. A location or compartment. [ 1913 Webster ]

In his bosom! In what chapter of his bosom? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chapter head, or
Chapter heading, that which stands at the head of a chapter, as a title. --
Chapter house, a house or room where a chapter meets, esp. a cathedral chapter. --
The chapter of accidents, chance. Marryat. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To divide into chapters, as a book. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To correct; to bring to book, i. e., to demand chapter and verse. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) One of the Chiroptera; -- an older spelling of chiropter. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

‖prop. n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. chei`r hand + ptero`n wing. ] (Zool.) An earlier spelling for Chiroptera, an order of Mammalia, including the bats, having four toes of each of the anterior limbs elongated and connected by a web, so that they can be used like wings in flying. See Chiroptera and Bat. [ archaic ] [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. (Zool.) chiropterous; belonging to the Chiroptera, or Bat family. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Cheiropterygia [ NL., fr. Gr. chei`r hand + pte`ryx, pte`rygos wing, fin. ] (Anat.) The typical pentadactyloid limb of the higher vertebrates. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See chiroptera. ] any mammal belonging to the order chiroptera; a bat.
Syn. -- chiropteran; bat. [ PJC ]

n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. chei`r hand + ptero`n wing. ] (Zool.) an ancient order of mammalia dating to the early Eocene, including the bats. They are nocturnal mouselike mammals having four toes of each of the anterior limbs elongated and connected by a web, so that they form membranous wings that can be used in flying. They also have anatomical adaptations, including large ears, for echolocation, by which they navigate and in some cases find insects. The order includes the suborders Megachiroptera (the fruit bats) and Microchiroptera (insectivorous bats). See Bat. Previously spelled cheiroptera. [ archaic ] [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. same as chiropter.
Syn. -- chiropter; bat. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
Syn. -- bat. [ WordNet 1.5 ]