‖n. [ Native name. ] (Zool.) A remarkable ganoid fish (Polypterus bichir) found in the Nile and other African rivers. See Brachioganoidei. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Epichiremata [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;, from &unr_; to attempt to prove. ] (Rhet. & Logic) A syllogism in which the proof of the major or minor premise, or both, is introduced with the premises themselves, and the conclusion is derived in the ordinary manner. [ Written also epicheirema. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ 277), n. }[ Cf. F. fétichisme. ] [ Written also feticism. ] 1. The doctrine or practice of belief in fetiches. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Excessive devotion to one object or one idea; abject superstition; blind adoration. [ 1913 Webster ]

The real and absolute worship of fire falls into two great divisions, the first belonging rather to fetichism, the second to polytheism proper. Tylor.

{ n. } A believer in fetiches. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was by nature a fetichist. H. Holbeach.

{ a. } Pertaining to, or involving, fetichism. [ 1913 Webster ]

A man of the fifteenth century, inheriting its strange web of belief and unbelief, of epicurean levity and fetichistic dread. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. "a`ls sea + qri`x, tricho`s, hair.] (Min.) An iron alum occurring in silky fibrous aggregates of a yellowish white color. [1913 Webster]

n. (Zool.) A curious South American bird (Anhima or Palamedea cornuta), often domesticated by the natives and kept with poultry, which it defends against birds of prey. It has a long, slender, hornlike ornament on its head, and two sharp spurs on each wing. Although its beak, feet, and legs resemble those of gallinaceous birds, it is related in anatomical characters to the ducks and geese (Anseres). Called also horned screamer. The name is sometimes applied also to the chaja. See Chaja, and Screamer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Obs. ] See Kechil. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. lei^os smooth + qri`x, tricho`s, hair. ] (Anthropol.) The division of mankind which embraces the smooth-haired races. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) See Litchi. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A genus of plants including one of the skunk cabbages.
Syn. -- genus Lysichiton, genus Lysichitum. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A resident of Michigan. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Hiding; skulking; cowardly. [ Colloq. ] [ Written also meaching and meeching. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Native name. ] (Zool.) A small, burrowing, South American edentate (Chlamyphorus truncatus), allied to the armadillos. The shell is attached only along the back. [ Written also pichyciego. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Also . ] [ D. rolletje a little roll. ] A kind of sausage, made in a bag of tripe, sliced and fried, famous among the Dutch of New Amsterdam and still known, esp. in New Jersey. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. pl. [ Cf. D. rolletje a little roll. ] Chopped meat stuffed into small bags of tripe. They are cut in slices and fried. [ Local, New York ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. stichiko`s. ] Of or pertaining to stichs, or lines; consisting of stichs, or lines. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Stichida [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;, dim. of &unr_; a row. ] (Bot.) A special podlike or fusiform branch containing tetraspores. It is found in certain red algae. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to stoichiology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; a first element + -logy. ] [ Written also stoechiology. ] 1. That part of the science of physiology which treats of the elements, or principles, composing animal tissues. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Logic) The doctrine of the elementary requisites of mere thought. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The statement or discussion of the first principles of any science or art. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to stoichiometry; employed in, or obtained by, stoichiometry. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Chem.) of, pertaining to, using, or consuming, reagents in the exact proportions required for a given reaction; as, a stoichiometric reaction, i. e., a reaction which goes to completion, rather than stopping partway at an equilibrium point. [ PJC ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; a first principle, or element + -metry. ] The art or process of calculating the atomic proportions, combining weights, and other numerical relations of chemical elements and their compounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;, fr. tri`x, tricho`s, hair. ] (Med.) A disease of the eye, in which the eyelashes, being turned in upon the eyeball, produce constant irritation by the motion of the lids. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Trichinae [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; hairy, made of hair, fr. tri`x, tricho`s, hair. ] (Zool.) A small, slender nematoid worm (Trichina spiralis) which, in the larval state, is parasitic, often in immense numbers, in the voluntary muscles of man, the hog, and many other animals. When insufficiently cooked meat containing the larvae is swallowed by man, they are liberated and rapidly become adult, pair, and the ovoviviparous females produce in a short time large numbers of young which find their way into the muscles, either directly, or indirectly by means of the blood. Their presence in the muscles and the intestines in large numbers produces trichinosis. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. ] (Med.) Trichinosis. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To render trichinous; to affect with trichinae; -- chiefly used in the past participle; as, trichinized pork. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Trichina + -scope. ] An apparatus for the detection of trichinae in the flesh of animals, as of swine. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. See Trichina. ] (Med.) The disease produced by the presence of trichinae in the muscles and intestinal track. It is marked by fever, muscular pains, and symptoms resembling those of typhoid fever, and is frequently fatal. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to trichinae or trichinosis; affected with, or containing, trichinae; as, trichinous meat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, hair. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Min.) A kind of crystallite resembling a bunch of hairs, common in obsidian. See Illust. of Crystallite. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A delicate, hairlike siliceous spicule, found in certain sponges. [ 1913 Webster ]

Trichite sheaf (Zool.), one of the small sheaflike fascicles of slender setae characteristic of certain sponges. See Illust. under Spicule. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Like or pertaining to the genus Trichiurus or family Trichiuridae, comprising the scabbard fishes and hairtails. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Trichiurus + -oid. ] (Zool.) Of, like, or pertaining to, Trichiurus. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. tri`x, tricho`s, a hair + o'yra` tail. ] (Zool.) A genus of fishes comprising the hairtails. See Hairtail. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, woolly-haired; &unr_; woolly + &unr_;, &unr_;, hair. ] (Anthropol.) The division of mankind which embraces the races having woolly or crispy hair. Cf. Leiotrichi. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. pl.; sing. Wichita /sing>. (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians native of the region between the Arkansas and Red rivers. They are related to the Pawnees. See Pawnees. [ 1913 Webster ]