*pus*

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;. See Apode, n. ] (Zool.) A genus of fresh-water phyllopod crustaceans. See Phyllopod. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. 1. 1 a genus of slow-growing geophytic cacti; northern and eastern Mexico; southern Texas.
Syn. -- genus Ariocarpus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. type genus of the Bradypodidae, comprising the three-toed sloths.
Syn. -- genus Bradypus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ L., a field. ] 1. The principal grounds of a college or school, between the buildings or within the main inclosure; as, the college campus. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. a college or university. [ PJC ]

3. a division of a university with its own buildings and a separate faculty, especially one separated geographically from other divisiona, but sharing top administration with other units of the university; as, the Newark campus of Rutgers. [ PJC ]

4. higher education considered as a whole; as, the financial effects of research cutbacks on the campus. [ PJC ]

5. a business site with pleasant landscaping; as, the Squibb research campus at Princeton. [ PJC ]

‖n. [ L. Canopus, fr. Gr. &unr_;, town of Egypt. ] (Astron.) A star of the first magnitude in the southern constellation Argo. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Carpi [ NL., fr. Gr. karpo`s wrist. ] (Anat.) The wrist; the bones or cartilages between the forearm, or antibrachium, and the hand or forefoot; in man, consisting of eight short bones disposed in two rows. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Chorepiscopi [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;; chw^ros, chw`ra, place, country + &unr_; bishop. Cf. Bishop. ] (Eccl.) A “country” or suffragan bishop, appointed in the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural district. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Cippi [ L., stake, post. ] A small, low pillar, square or round, commonly having an inscription, used by the ancients for various purposes, as for indicating the distances of places, for a landmark, for sepulchral inscriptions, etc. Gwilt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus of birds comprised of pewees, and including the wood pewees Contopus sordidulus and Contopus virens.
Syn. -- genus Contopus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n.; pl. Corpora [ L. ] A body, living or dead; the corporeal substance of a thing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Corpus callosum pl. Corpora callosa (-s&unr_;) [ NL., callous body ] (Anat.), the great band of commissural fibers uniting the cerebral hemispheres. See Brain. --
Corpus Christi ety>[ L., body of Christ ] (R. C. Ch.), a festival in honor of the eucharist, observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday. --
Corpus Christi cloth. Same as Pyx cloth, under Pyx. --
Corpus delicti ety>[ L., the body of the crime ] (Law), the substantial and fundamental fact of the comission of a crime; the proofs essential to establish a crime. --
Corpus luteum pl. Corpora lutea [ NL., luteous body ] (Anat.), the reddish yellow mass which fills a ruptured Graafian follicle in the mammalian ovary. --
Corpus striatum pl. Corpora striata [ NL., striate body ] (Anat.), a ridge in the wall of each lateral ventricle of the brain. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. corpusculum, dim. of corpus. ] 1. A minute particle; an atom; a molecule. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) A protoplasmic animal cell; esp., such as float free, like blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles; or such as are imbedded in an intercellular matrix, like connective tissue and cartilage corpuscles. See Blood. [ 1913 Webster ]

Virchow showed that the corpuscles of bone are homologous with those of connective tissue. Quain's Anat. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Physics) An electron. [ archaic ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Red blood corpuscles (Physiol.), in man, yellowish, biconcave, circular discs varying from 1/3500 to 1/3200 of an inch in diameter and about 1/12400 of an inch thick. They are composed of a colorless stroma filled in with semifluid hæmoglobin and other matters. In most mammals the red corpuscles are circular, but in the camels, birds, reptiles, and the lower vertebrates generally, they are oval, and sometimes more or less spherical in form. In Amphioxus, and most invertebrates, the blood corpuscles are all white or colorless. --
White blood corpuscles (Physiol.), rounded, slightly flattened, nucleated cells, mainly protoplasmic in composition, and possessed of contractile power. In man, the average size is about 1/2500 of an inch, and they are present in blood in much smaller numbers than the red corpuscles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. corpusculaire. ] Pertaining to, or composed of, corpuscles, or small particles. [ 1913 Webster ]

Corpuscular philosophy, that which attempts to account for the phenomena of nature, by the motion, figure, rest, position, etc., of the minute particles of matter. --
Corpuscular theory (Opt.), the theory enunciated by Sir Isaac Newton, that light consists in the emission and rapid progression of minute particles or corpuscles. The theory is now generally rejected, and supplanted by the undulatory theory. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Corpuscular. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An adherent of the corpuscular philosophy. Bentley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A corpuscle. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Corpuscular. Tyndall. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ L. crepusculum, fr. creper dusky, dark: cf. F. crépuscule. ] Twilight. Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Crepuscular. [ Obs. ] Sprat. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Cf. F. crépusculaire. ] 1. Pertaining to twilight; glimmering; hence, imperfectly clear or luminous. [ 1913 Webster ]

This semihistorical and crepuscular period. Sir G. C. Lewis. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Flying in the twilight or evening, or before sunrise; -- said certain birds and insects. [ 1913 Webster ]

Others feed only in the twilight, as bats and owls, and are called crepuscular. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus of evergreen coniferous shrubs or trees of New Zealand to Malaysia and Philippines.
Syn. -- genus Dacrycarpus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the type genus of the Dasypodidae.
Syn. -- genus Dasypus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; with two wings + &unr_; fruit. ] (Bot.) A genus of trees found in the East Indies, some species of which produce a fragrant resin, other species wood oil. The fruit has two long wings. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. same as Duck Mole, under Duck..
Syn. -- duck mole, duckbill, duck-bill platypus, platypus. [ PJC ]

n. [ LL. empusa, Gr. &unr_;. ] A phantom or specter. [ Obs. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; containing fruit; &unr_; in + &unr_; fruit; cf. L. encarpa, pl., Gr. &unr_;. ] (Arch.) An ornament on a frieze or capital, consisting of festoons of fruit, flowers, leaves, etc. [ Written also encarpa. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'hw`s dawn + "ipposhorse.] an extinct primitive dog-sized 4-toed Eocene mammal, the earliest horse known in the line of descent of the modern horse. It is classed in the extinct genus Hydracotherium. Called also dawn horse.
Syn. -- dawn horse. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; sweetly singing. ] (Zoöl.) A genus of small beetles, one species of which (E. viti) is very injurious to the vines in the wine countries of Europe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;; e'y^ well + &unr_; a rushing motion. ] A strait; a narrow tract of water, where the tide, or a current, flows and reflows with violence, as the ancient frith of this name between Eubœa and Bœotia. Hence, a flux and reflux. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Grampuses [ Probably corrupted from It. gran pesce great fish, or Sp. gran pez, or Pg. gran peixe, all fr. L. grandis piscis. See Grand, and Fish. the animal. ] 1. (Zool.) A toothed delphinoid cetacean, of the genus Grampus, esp. G. griseus of Europe and America, which is valued for its oil. It grows to be fifteen to twenty feet long; its color is gray with white streaks. Called also cowfish. The California grampus is G. Stearnsii. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A kind of tongs used in a bloomery. [ U.S. ]

‖ [ L. you may have the body. ] (Law) A writ having for its object to bring a party before a court or judge; especially, one to inquire into the cause of a person's imprisonment or detention by another, with the view to protect the right to personal liberty; also, one to bring a prisoner into court to testify in a pending trial. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A genus of dioecious trees or shrubs of New Zealand; similar in habit to Dacrydium.
Syn. -- genus Halocarpus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. one of two genera of stilts; they are similar to avocets but with straight bills.
Syn. -- genus Himantopus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L., the sea horse, Gr. &unr_; a hippocampus (in senses 1 and 2); "i`ppos horse + &unr_; to bend.] 1. (Class. Myth.) A fabulous monster, with the head and fore quarters of a horse joined to the tail of a dolphin or other fish (Hippocampus brevirostris), -- seen in Pompeian paintings, attached to the chariot of Neptune. Fairholt. [1913 Webster]

2. (Zool.) A genus of lophobranch fishes of several species in which the head and neck have some resemblance to those of a horse; -- called also sea horse. [1913 Webster]

☞ They swim slowly, in an erect position, and often cling to seaweeds by means of the incurved prehensile tail. The male has a ventral pouch, in which it carries the eggs till hatched. [1913 Webster]

3. (Zool.) A name applied to either of two ridges of white matter in each lateral ventricle of the brain. The larger is called hippocampus major or simply hippocampus. The smaller, hippocampus minor, is called also ergot and calcar. [1913 Webster]

n. A Eurasian genus of perennial herbs or subshrubs.
Syn. -- genus Hyssopus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n.; pl. Labipalpi [ NL. See Labium, and Palpus. ] (Zool.) One of the labial palpi of an insect. See Illust. under Labium. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The type genus of the Leporidae, comprising the hares.
Syn. -- genus Lepus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. A genus of chiefly tropical American shrubs and trees having pinnate leaves and red or white flowers.
Syn. -- genus Lonchocarpus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ L., a wolf. See Wolf. ] 1. (Med.) originally, a cutaneous disease with the appearance of the skin having been gnawed, and occurring under two distinct forms. Now used as a generic term for over ten distinguishable diseases having visible cutaneous symptoms. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

☞ Lupus erythematosus is characterized by an eruption of red patches, which become incrusted, leaving superficial scars. Lupus vulgaris is marked by the development of nodules which often ulcerate deeply and produce great deformity. Prior to 1900 the latter was often confounded with cancer, and some varieties of cancer were included under Lupus. Systemic lupus erythematosus is an inflammatory connective tissue disease occurring mostly in women, characterized by skin rash, fever, and arthritic symptoms, and often accompanied by hemolytic anemia, inflammation of the pericardium, glomerular lesions, and hyperglobulinemia; the condition shows positive in the LE cell test. [ Stedman ]br/ [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. (Astron.) The Wolf, a constellation situated south of Scorpio. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A small genus of nonaromatic herbs of the mint family.
Syn. -- genus Lycopus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ NL. See Macropod. ] (Zool.) A genus of marsupials including the common kangaroo. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A great work of art or literature. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. The greatest work or achievement of a particular artist, writer, or other individual. [ PJC ]

Inspired by this milieu, [ Max Stirner ] wrote his magnum opus The Ego and Its Own, which was published in November 1844. Svein Nyberg (The Small Max Stirner Web Page, 1988 [ https://web.archive.org/web/19981207014247/http://www.math.uio.no/~solan/stirner/stirner.html ]) [ PJC ]

n. (Anatomy), See malpighian body.
Syn. -- malpighian body, Malpighian capsule. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖ [ L. See Marmorate, and Opus. ] (Arch.) A kind of hard finish for plasterwork, made of plaster of Paris and marble dust, and capable of taking a high polish. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. me`sos middle + &unr_; a horse. ] (Paleon.) An extinct mammal of the Horse family, but not larger than a sheep, and having three toes on each foot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; beyond, between + &unr_; the wrist. ] (Anat.) That part of the skeleton of the hand or forefoot between the carpus and phalanges. In man it consists of five bones. See Illust. of Artiodactyla. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. mei`wn less + "ippo`s horse.] (Paleon.) An extinct Miocene mammal of the Horse family, closely related to the genus Anhithecrium, and having three usable hoofs on each foot. [1913 Webster]

n. A mope; a drone. [ Obs. ] Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. ] (Bot.) A kind of turnip. See Navew. [ 1913 Webster ]