‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; cat + -oid. ] (Zool.) A group of the Carnivora, which includes the cats, civets, and hyenas. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) The division of Vertebrata in which the embryo develops an allantois. It includes reptiles, birds, and mammals. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Ammonite + -oid. ] (Zool.) An extensive group of fossil cephalopods often very abundant in Mesozoic rocks. See Ammonite. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ Gr. 'an priv. + E. allantoidea. ] (Zool.) The division of Vertebrata in which no allantois is developed. It includes amphibians, fishes, and lower forms. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Anthropoid. ] (Zool.) The suborder of primates which includes the monkeys, apes, and man. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) Same as Arachnida. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖‖ } n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) See Araneina. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; bear + -oid. ] (Zool.) A group of the Carnivora, that includes the bears, weasels, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. ascidium + -oid. See Ascidium. ] (Zool.) A group of Tunicata, often shaped like a two-necked bottle. The group includes, social, and compound species. The gill is a netlike structure within the oral aperture. The integument is usually leathery in texture. See Illustration in Appendix. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Heb. khāsad to be pious. ] One of a body of devoted Jews who opposed the Hellenistic Jews, and supported the Asmoneans. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖‖ } n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'asteri`as + -oid. See Asterias. ] (Zool.) A class of Echinodermata including the true starfishes. The rays vary in number and always have ambulacral grooves below. The body is star-shaped or pentagonal. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., from L. balaena whale + -oid. ] (Zool.) A division of the Cetacea, including the right whale and all other whales having the mouth fringed with baleen. See Baleen. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. bde`lla leech + -oid. ] (Zool.) The order of Annulata which includes the leeches. See Hirudinea. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ F. beau beautiful + idéal ideal. ] A conception or image of consummate beauty, moral or physical, formed in the mind, free from all the deformities, defects, and blemishes seen in actual existence; an ideal or faultless standard or model. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an order of extinct dibranchiate cephalopods related to the surviving spirulas.
Syn. -- order Belemnoidea. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. blasto`s sprout + -oid. ] (Zool.) One of the divisions of Crinoidea found fossil in paleozoic rocks; pentremites. They are so named on account of their budlike form. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., gr. Gr. kesto`s girdle + -oid. ] (Zool.) A class of parasitic worms of the phylum Platyhelminthes (formerly Platelminthes) of which the tapeworms are the most common examples. The body is flattened, and usually but not always long, and composed of numerous joints or segments, each of which may contain a complete set of male and female reproductive organs. They have neither mouth nor intestine. See Tapeworm. [ Written also Cestoidea. ]
Syn. -- class Cestoidea, Cestoidea. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. cho`ndros cartilage + NL. ganoidei. See Ganoid. ] (Zool.) An order of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so called on account of their cartilaginous skeleton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a superfamily of scale insects and mealybugs.
Syn. -- superfamily Coccoidea. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., from Gr. kri`non lily + -oid: cf. F. crinoïde. ] (Zool.) A large class of Echinodermata, including numerous extinct families and genera, but comparatively few living ones. Most of the fossil species, like some that are recent, were attached by a jointed stem. See Blastoidea, Cystoidea, Comatula. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

a. (Zool.) Relating to the Ctenoidei. -- n. One of the Ctenoidei. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an order of ctenophores having two long pinnate tentacles.
Syn. -- order Cydippida, Cydippidea, order Cydippidea, Cydippea, order Cydippea. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, a dog + -oid. ] (Zool.) A division of Carnivora, including the dogs, wolves, and foxes. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; a bladder, pouch. ] (Zool.) An order of Crinoidea, mostly fossils of the Paleozoic rocks. They were usually roundish or egg-shaped, and often unsymmetrical; some were sessile, others had short stems. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. Same as Cystidea. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }, n. Same as Cystidean. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) The division of Cetacea which comprises the dolphins, porpoises, and related forms. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Echinus, and -oid. ] (Zoöl.) The class Echinodermata which includes the sea urchins. They have a calcareous shell, usually more or less spheroidal or disk-shaped, composed of many united plates, and covered with movable spines. See Spatangoid, Clypeastroid. [ Written also Echinidea, and Echinoida. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. echiurus, the name of one genus (Gr. 'e`chis an adder + o'yra` tail) + -oid. ] (Zoöl.) A division of Annelida which includes the genus Echiurus and allies. They are often classed among the Gephyrea, and called the armed Gephyreans. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Encrinus and -oid. ] (Zoöl.) That order of the Crinoidea which includes most of the living and many fossil forms, having jointed arms around the margin of the oral disk; -- also called Brachiata and Articulata. See Illusts. under Comatula and Crinoidea. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Endo- + Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, a shield. ] (Zoöl.) Having the anterior scutes extending around the tarsus on the inner side; -- said of certain birds. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Same as Epiglottic. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Eurypteroid. ] (Paleont.) An extinct order of Merostomata, of which the genus Eurypterus is the type. They are found only in Paleozoic rocks. [ Written also Eurypterida. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; out + &unr_;, &unr_;, a shield. ] (Zoöl.) Having the anterior scutes extending around the tarsus on the outer side, leaving the inner side naked; -- said of certain birds. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. pl. [ NL., from L. flos, floris, a flower. ] (Bot.) A subclass of algæ including all the red or purplish seaweeds; the Rhodospermeæ of many authors; -- so called from the rosy or florid color of most of the species. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to the glottis; glottal. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to the islands called Hebrides, west of Scotland. -- n. A native or inhabitant of the Hebrides. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. L. helianthes sunflower + -oid. ] (Zool.) An order of Anthozoa; the Actinaria. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a hiding place; usually a remote place used by outlaws.
Syn. -- hideout, den. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. an area where one can be alone and undisturbed.
Syn. -- retreat. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Holo- + Gr.&unr_;, &unr_;, shield. ] (Zool.) Having a single series of large scutes on the posterior side of the tarsus; -- said of certain birds. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Holothure, and -oid. ] (Zool.) One of the classes of echinoderms. They have a more or less elongated body, often flattened beneath, and a circle of tentacles, which are usually much branched, surrounding the mouth; the skin is more or less flexible, and usually contains calcareous plates of various characteristic forms, sometimes becoming large and scalelike. Most of the species have five bands (ambulacra) of sucker-bearing feet along the sides; in others these are lacking. In one group (Pneumonophora) two branching internal gills are developed; in another (Apneumona) these are wanting. Called also Holothurida, Holothuridea, and Holothuroidea. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A superfamily of mammals including anthropoid apes and human beings.
Syn. -- superfamily Hominoidea. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖ n. pl. [ NL. See Hydra, and -oid. ] (Zool.) An extensive order of Hydrozoa or Acalephæ. [ Written also Hydroida. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This order includes the hydras and the free-swimming hydromedusæ, together with a great variety of marine attached hydroids, many of which grow up into large, elegantly branched forms, consisting of a vast number of zooids (hydranths, gonophores, etc.), united by hollow stems. All the zooids of a colony are produced from one primary zooid, by successive buddings. The Siphonophora have also been included in this order by some writers. See Gymnoblastea, Hydromedusa, Gonosome, Gonotheca. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Same as Hyoid, a. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Hyrax, and oid. ] (Zool.) An order of small hoofed mammals, comprising the single living genus Hyrax. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Ideas [ L. idea, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to see; akin to E. wit: cf. F. idée. See Wit. ] 1. The transcript, image, or picture of a visible object, that is formed by the mind; also, a similar image of any object whatever, whether sensible or spiritual. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her sweet idea wandered through his thoughts. Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ]

Being the right idea of your father
Both in your form and nobleness of mind. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

This representation or likeness of the object being transmitted from thence [ the senses ] to the imagination, and lodged there for the view and observation of the pure intellect, is aptly and properly called its idea. P. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A general notion, or a conception formed by generalization. [ 1913 Webster ]

Alice had not the slightest idea what latitude was. L. Caroll. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hence: Any object apprehended, conceived, or thought of, by the mind; a notion, conception, or thought; the real object that is conceived or thought of. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whatsoever the mind perceives in itself, or as the immediate object of perception, thought, or undersanding, that I call idea. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A belief, option, or doctrine; a characteristic or controlling principle; as, an essential idea; the idea of development. [ 1913 Webster ]

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

What is now “idea” for us? How infinite the fall of this word, since the time where Milton sang of the Creator contemplating his newly-created world, --
“how it showed . . .
Answering his great idea, ” --
to its present use, when this person “has an idea that the train has started, ” and the other “had no idea that the dinner would be so bad!” Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A plan or purpose of action; intention; design. [ 1913 Webster ]

I shortly afterwards set off for that capital, with an idea of undertaking while there the translation of the work. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A rational conception; the complete conception of an object when thought of in all its essential elements or constituents; the necessary metaphysical or constituent attributes and relations, when conceived in the abstract. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. A fiction object or picture created by the imagination; the same when proposed as a pattern to be copied, or a standard to be reached; one of the archetypes or patterns of created things, conceived by the Platonists to have excited objectively from eternity in the mind of the Deity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thence to behold this new-created world,
The addition of his empire, how it showed
In prospect from his throne, how good, how fair,
Answering his great idea. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ “In England, Locke may be said to have been the first who naturalized the term in its Cartesian universality. When, in common language, employed by Milton and Dryden, after Descartes, as before him by Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Hooker, etc., the meaning is Platonic.” Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Abstract idea,
Association of ideas, etc. See under Abstract, Association, etc.

Syn. -- Notion; conception; thought; sentiment; fancy; image; perception; impression; opinion; belief; observation; judgment; consideration; view; design; intention; purpose; plan; model; pattern. -- There is scarcely any other word which is subjected to such abusive treatment as is the word idea, in the very general and indiscriminative way in which it is employed, as it is used variously to signify almost any act, state, or content of thought. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. idealis: cf. F. idéal. ] 1. Existing in idea or thought; conceptional; intellectual; mental; as, ideal knowledge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Reaching an imaginary standard of excellence; fit for a model; faultless; as, ideal beauty. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

There will always be a wide interval between practical and ideal excellence. Rambler. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Existing in fancy or imagination only; visionary; unreal. “Planning ideal common wealth.” Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Teaching the doctrine of idealism; as, the ideal theory or philosophy. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Math.) Imaginary.

Syn. -- Intellectual; mental; visionary; fanciful; imaginary; unreal; impracticable; utopian. [ 1913 Webster ]