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A Linnæan order of aquatic birds swimming by means of webbed feet, as the duck, or of lobed feet, as the grebe. In this order were included the geese, ducks, auks, divers, gulls, petrels, etc.

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• DIVERSIFORM
  Of a different form; of varied forms.
• DIVERS
  directions, different, p. p. of divertere. See Divert, and cf. 1. Different in kind or species; diverse. Every sect of them hath a divers posture. Bacon. Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds. Deut. xxii. 9. 2. Several; sundry; various;
• LOBEFOOT
  A bird having lobate toes; esp., a phalarope.
• DIVERSILOQUENT
  Speaking in different ways.
• AQUATIC
  Pertaining to water growing in water; living in, swimming in, or frequenting the margins of waters; as, aquatic plants and fowls.
• SWIMMINGNESS
  Act or state of swimming; suffusion. "A swimmingness in the eye." Congreve.
• LOBE-FOOTED
  Lobiped.
• LOBULETTE
  A little lobule, or subdivision of a lobule.
• LOBIPED
  Having lobate toes, as a coot.
• WEBBY
  Of or pertaining to a web or webs; like a web; filled or covered with webs. Bats on their webby wings in darkness move. Crabbe.
• ORDERLY
  1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton. 2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community. 3. Performed in good
• LOBSCOUSE
  A combination of meat with vegetables, bread, etc., usually stewed, sometimes baked; an olio.
• LOBULATE; LOBULATED
  Made up of, or divided into, lobules; as, a lobulated gland.
• INCLUDED
  Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.
• LOBWORM
  The lugworm.
• LOBATE; LOBATED
  Consisting of, or having, lobes; lobed; as, a lobate leaf. Having lobes; -- said of the tails of certain fishes having the integument continued to the bases of the fin rays. Furnished with membranous flaps, as the toes of a coot. See Illust. under
• LOBAR
  Of or pertaining to a lobe; characterized by, or like, a lobe or lobes.
• SWIMMING
  1. That swims; capable of swimming; adapted to, or used in, swimming; as, a swimming bird; a swimming motion. 2. Suffused with moisture; as, swimming eyes. Swimming bell , a nectocalyx. See Illust. under Siphonophora. -- Swimming crab , any one
• LOBULE
  A small lobe; a subdivision of a lobe. Lobule of the ear. Same as Lobe of the ear.
• DIVERSIFIABLE
  Capable of being diversified or varied. Boyle.
• TRILOBITE
  Any one of numerous species of extinct arthropods belonging to the order Trilobita. Trilobites were very common in the Silurian and Devonian periods, but became extinct at the close of the Paleozoic. So named from the three lobes usually seen on
• GLOBULE
  A minute spherical or rounded structure; as blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles, minute fungi, spores, etc. 3. A little pill or pellet used by homeopathists. (more info) 1. A little globe; a small particle of matter, of a spherical form. Globules
• PALMATILOBED
  Palmate, with the divisions separated less than halfway to the common center.
• GLOBOUS
  Spherical. Milton.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• BLOBBER-LIPPED
  Having thick lips. "A blobber-lipped shell." Grew.
• DIPLOBLASTIC
  Characterizing the ovum when it has two primary germinal layers.
• CONGLOBATION
  1. The act or process of forming into a ball. Sir T. Browne. 2. A round body.
• MISORDER
  To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
• SUBGLOBOSE
  Not quite globose.
• GLOBULARLY
  Spherically.
• ACUTILOBATE
  Having acute lobes, as some leaves.
• GLOBULIMETER
  An instrument for measuring the number of red blood corpuscles in the blood. Note: The method depends on the differences of tint obtained by mixing a sample of the blood with sodium carbonate solution.
• ACCORDER
  One who accords, assents, or concedes.
• AMYLOBACTER
  A microörganism which develops in vegetable tissue during putrefaction. Sternberg.