a. [ Gr.
n. [ Cf. Cross, and Crosier. ] A cooper's tool for making the grooves for the heads of casks, etc.; also, the groove itself. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. See Crosier. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Crosiered. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Gr. &unr_; second + E. zooid. ] (Zool.) One of the secondary, and usually sexual, zooids produced by budding or fission from the primary zooids, in animals having alternate generations. In the tapeworms, the joints are deuterozooids. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Gr.
adj. preserved by freezing sufficiently rapidly to retain flavor and nutritional value; -- used of foods.
imp. of Freeze. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
They warmed their frozen feet. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
Be not ever frozen, coy. T. Carew. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A state of being frozen. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. E. hydra + Gr.
a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Hydrozoa. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n.;
n. [ Macro- + zoospore. ] (Bot.) A large motile spore having four vibratile cilia; -- found in certain green algae. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Gr.
n. [ Micro- + zoospore. ] (Bot.) A small motile spore furnished with two vibratile cilia, found in certain green algae. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr.
n. [ Micro- + Gr.
‖n. pl. [ NL., from Gr.
n. [ Spore + Gr.
n. (Zool.) In certain Sporozoa, a small active, usually elongate, sickle-shaped or somewhat amoeboid spore, esp. one of those produced by division of the passive spores into which the zygote divides. The sporozoites reproduce asexually. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]