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An extensive division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, including those that have a long retractile proboscis, with the mouth at the end, as the cones, whelks, tritons, and cowries. See Illust. of Gastropoda, and of Winkle.

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• PROBOSCIS
  A hollow organ or tube attached to the head, or connected with the mouth, of various animals, and generally used in taking food or drink; a snout; a trunk. Note: The proboscis of an elephant is a flexible muscular elongation of the nose.
• CONESTOGA WAGON; CONESTOGA WAIN
  A kind of large broad-wheeled wagon, usually covered, for traveling in soft soil and on prairies.
• WINKLE
  Any periwinkle. Holland. Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, esp., in the United States, either of two species of Fulgar (F. canaliculata, and F. carica). Note: These are large mollusks which often destroy large numbers of oysters
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• DIVISIONALLY
  So as to be divisional.
• THOSE
  The plural of that. See That.
• ILLUSTROUS
  Without luster.
• GASTROPODA
  One of the classes of Mollusca, of great extent. It includes most of the marine spiral shells, and the land and fresh-water snails. They generally creep by means of a flat, muscular disk, or foot, on the ventral side of the body. The head usually
• ILLUSTRIOUS
  1. Possessing luster or brightness; brilliant; luminous; splendid. Quench the light; thine eyes are guides illustrious. Beau. & Fl. 2. Characterized by greatness, nobleness, etc.; eminent; conspicuous; distinguished. Illustrious earls, renowened
• MOUTHFUL
  1. As much as is usually put into the mouth at one time. 2. Hence, a small quantity.
• EXTENSIVELY
  To a great extent; widely; largely; as, a story is extensively circulated.
• ILLUSTRATIVELY
  By way of illustration or elucidation. Sir T. Browne.
• ILLUSTRATIVE
  1. Tending or designed to illustrate, exemplify, or elucidate. 2. Making illustrious.
• INCLUDED
  Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.
• MOUTHED
  1. Furnished with a mouth. 2. Having a mouth of a particular kind; using the mouth, speech, or voice in a particular way; -- used only in composition; as, wide- mouthed; hard-mouthed; foul-mouthed; mealy-mouthed.
• MOUTH
  An opening affording entrance or exit; orifice; aperture; as: The opening of a vessel by which it is filled or emptied, charged or discharged; as, the mouth of a jar or pitcher; the mouth of the lacteal vessels, etc. The opening or entrance of any
• DIVISIONAL
  That divides; pas, a divisional line; a divisional general; a divisional surgeon of police. Divisional planes , planes of separation between rock masses. They include joints.
• RETRACTILE
  CApable of retraction; capable of being drawn back or up; as, the claws of a cat are retractile.
• ILLUSTRIOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being eminent; greatness; grandeur; glory; fame.
• ILLUSTRATION
  1. The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct. 2. That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible,
• SPATHOSE
  See SPATHIC
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• LOUD-MOUTHED
  Having a loud voice; talking or sounding noisily; noisily impudent.
• TWINKLE
  1. To open and shut the eye rapidly; to blink; to wink. The owl fell a moping and twinkling. L' Estrange. 2. To shine with an intermitted or a broken, quavering light; to flash at intervals; to sparkle; to scintillate. These stars not twinkle when
• REDMOUTH
  Any one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus Diabasis, or Hæmulon, of the Southern United States, having the inside of the mouth bright red. Called also flannelmouth, and grunt.
• SPLAYMOUTH
  A wide mouth; a mouth stretched in derision. Dryden.
• FLAP-MOUTHED
  Having broad, hangling lips. Shak.
• HOT-MOUTHED
  Headstrong. That hot-mouthed beast that bears against the curb. Dryden.
• FOUL-MOUTHED
  Using language scurrilous, opprobrious, obscene, or profane; abusive. So foul-mouthed a witness never appeared in any cause. Addison.
• FROGMOUTH
  One of several species of Asiatic and East Indian birds of the genus Batrachostomus ; -- so called from their very broad, flat bills.