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Halo :: Halo (v. t. & i.) To form, or surround with, a halo; to encircle with, or as with, a halo..

Haloscope :: Haloscope (n.) An instrument for exhibition or illustration of the phenomena of halos, parhelia, and the like..

Halophyte :: Halophyte (n.) A plant found growing in salt marshes, or in the sea..

Halotrichite :: Halotrichite (n.) An iron alum occurring in silky fibrous aggregates of a yellowish white color.

Acephalocyst :: Acephalocyst (n.) A larval entozoon in the form of a subglobular or oval vesicle, or hydatid, filled with fluid, sometimes found in the tissues of man and the lower animals; -- so called from the absence of a head or visible organs on the vesicle. These cysts are the immature stages of certain tapeworms. Also applied to similar cysts of different origin..

Brachyura :: Brachyura (n. pl.) A group of decapod Crustacea, including the common crabs, characterized by a small and short abdomen, which is bent up beneath the large cephalo-thorax. [Also spelt Brachyoura.] See Crab, and Illustration in Appendix..

Mesocoelia :: Mesocoelia (n.) The cavity of the mesencephalon; the iter.

Haloid :: Haloid (n.) A haloid substance.

Grimme :: Grimme (n.) A West African antelope (Cephalophus rufilotus) of a deep bay color, with a broad dorsal stripe of black; -- called also conquetoon..

Haloxyline :: Haloxyline (n.) An explosive mixture, consisting of sawdust, charcoal, niter, and ferrocyanide of potassium, used as a substitute for gunpowder..

Haloing :: Haloing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hal.

Siphoniferous :: Siphoniferous (a.) Siphon-bearing, as the shell of the nautilus and other cephalopods..

Prosencephalon :: Prosencephalon (n.) The cerebrum.

Duykerbok :: Duykerbok (n.) A small South African antelope (Cephalous mergens); -- called also impoon, and deloo..

Acephalous :: Acephalous (a.) Deficient and the beginning, as a line of poetry..

Omphalomesaraic :: Omphalomesaraic (a.) Omphalomesenteric.

Amphid :: Amphid (n.) A salt of the class formed by the combination of an acid and a base, or by the union of two oxides, two sulphides, selenides, or tellurides, as distinguished from a haloid compound..

Chromatophore :: Chromatophore (n.) A contractile cell or vesicle containing liquid pigment and capable of changing its form or size, thus causing changes of color in the translucent skin of such animals as possess them. They are highly developed and numerous in the cephalopods..

Myelencephalon :: Myelencephalon (n.) The brain and spinal cord; the cerebro-spinal axis; the neuron. Sometimes abbreviated to myelencephal.

Octocerata :: Octocerata (n.pl.) A suborder of Cephalopoda including Octopus, Argonauta, and allied genera, having eight arms around the head; -- called also Octopoda..

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