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Drill :: Drill (n.) The act or exercise of training soldiers in the military art, as in the manual of arms, in the execution of evolutions, and the like; hence, diligent and strict instruction and exercise in the rudiments and methods of any business; a kind or method of military exercises; as, infantry drill; battalion drill; artillery drill..

Thysanoptera :: Thysanoptera (n. pl.) A division of insects, considered by some writers a distinct order, but regarded by others as belonging to the Hemiptera. They are all of small size, and have narrow, broadly fringed wings with rudimentary nervures. Most of the species feed upon the juices of plants, and some, as those which attack grain, are very injurious to crops. Called also Physopoda. See Thrips..

Scyphophori :: Scyphophori (n. pl.) An order of fresh-water fishes inhabiting tropical Africa. They have rudimentary electrical organs on each side of the tail.

Pharyngeal :: Pharyngeal (n.) A pharyngeal bone or cartilage; especially, one of the lower pharyngeals, which belong to the rudimentary fifth branchial arch in many fishes, or one of the upper pharyngeals, or pharyngobranchials, which are the dorsal elements in the complete branchial arches..

Rudiment :: Rudiment (v. t.) To furnish with first principles or rules; to insrtuct in the rudiments.

Horse :: Horse (n.) A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus; especially, the domestic horse (E. caballus), which was domesticated in Egypt and Asia at a very early period. It has six broad molars, on each side of each jaw, with six incisors, and two canine teeth, both above and below. The mares usually have the canine teeth rudimentary or wanting. The horse differs from the true asses, in having a long, flowing mane, and the tail bushy to the base. Unlike the asses it has callosities, or chestnuts, on all

Pinfeather :: Pinfeather (n.) A feather not fully developed; esp., a rudimentary feather just emerging through the skin..

Embryo :: Embryo (a.) Pertaining to an embryo; rudimentary; undeveloped; as, an embryo bud..

Chameck :: Chameck (n.) A kind of spider monkey (Ateles chameck), having the thumbs rudimentary and without a nail..

Roughcast :: Roughcast (v. t.) To form in its first rudiments, without revision, correction, or polish..

Bosset :: Bosset (n.) A rudimental antler of a young male of the red deer.

Lyencephala :: Lyencephala (n. pl.) A group of Mammalia, including the marsupials and monotremes; -- so called because the corpus callosum is rudimentary..

Strepsipterous :: Strepsiptera (n. pl.) A group of small insects having the anterior wings rudimentary, and in the form of short and slender twisted appendages, while the posterior ones are large and membranous. They are parasitic in the larval state on bees, wasps, and the like; -- called also Rhipiptera. See Illust. under Rhipipter..

Prehallux :: Prehallux (n.) An extra first toe, or rudiment of a toe, on the preaxial side of the hallux..

Rudiment :: Rudiment (n.) Hence, an element or first principle of any art or science; a beginning of any knowledge; a first step..

Radicle :: Radicle (n.) The rudimentary stem of a plant which supports the cotyledons in the seed, and from which the root is developed downward; the stem of the embryo; the caulicle..

Dewclaw :: Dewclaw (n.) In any animal, esp. of the Herbivora, a rudimentary claw or small hoof not reaching the ground..

Alphabet :: Alphabet (n.) The simplest rudiments; elements.

Pseudohalter :: Pseudohalter (n.) One of the rudimentary front wings of certain insects (Stylops). They resemble the halteres, or rudimentary hind wings, of Diptera..

Balancer :: Balancer (n.) In Diptera, the rudimentary posterior wing..

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