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Tapeworm :: Tapeworm (n.) Any one of numerous species of cestode worms belonging to Taenia and many allied genera. The body is long, flat, and composed of numerous segments or proglottids varying in shape, those toward the end of the body being much larger and longer than the anterior ones, and containing the fully developed sexual organs. The head is small, destitute of a mouth, but furnished with two or more suckers (which vary greatly in shape in different genera), and sometimes, also, with hooks for adh

Epignathous :: Epignathous (a.) Hook-billed; having the upper mandible longer than the lower.

Sheephook :: Sheephook (n.) A hook fastened to pole, by which shepherds lay hold on the legs or necks of their sheep; a shepherd's crook..

Fishhook :: Fishhook (n.) A hook with a pendant, to the end of which the fish-tackle is hooked..

Rhipidoglossa :: Rhipidoglossa (n. pl.) A division of gastropod mollusks having a large number of long, divergent, hooklike, lingual teeth in each transverse row. It includes the scutibranchs. See Illustration in Appendix..

Cat''s-paw :: Cat's-paw (n.) A particular hitch or turn in the bight of a rope, into which a tackle may be hooked..

Dibranchiata :: Dibranchiata (n. pl.) An order of cephalopods which includes those with two gills, an apparatus for emitting an inky fluid, and either eight or ten cephalic arms bearing suckers or hooks, as the octopi and squids. See Cephalopoda..

Foothook :: Foothook (n.) See Futtock.

Hook :: Hook (n.) The projecting points of the thigh bones of cattle; -- called also hook bones.

Obuncous :: Obuncous (a.) Hooked or crooked in an extreme degree.

Billman :: Billman (n.) One who uses, or is armed with, a bill or hooked ax..

Pothook :: Pothook (n.) A written character curved like a pothook; (pl.) a scrawled writing.

Hookah :: Hookah (n.) A pipe with a long, flexible stem, so arranged that the smoke is cooled by being made to pass through water..

Trammel :: Trammel (n.) An iron hook of various forms and sizes, used for handing kettles and other vessels over the fire..

Howker :: Howker (n.) Same as Hooker.

Span :: Span (v. t.) A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used..

Boulter :: Boulter (n.) A long, stout fishing line to which many hooks are attached..

Hook :: Hook (v. t.) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore..

Pennant :: Pennant (n.) A rope or strap to which a purchase is hooked.

Hooker :: Hooker (n.) A Dutch vessel with two masts.

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