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A grand division of the animal kingdom, intermediate, in some respects, between the invertebrates and vertebrates, and by some writers united with the latter. They were formerly classed with acephalous mollusks. The body is usually covered with

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A grand division of the animal kingdom, intermediate, in some respects, between the invertebrates and vertebrates, and by some writers united with the latter. They were formerly classed with acephalous mollusks. The body is usually covered with a firm external tunic, consisting in part of cellulose, and having two openings, one for the entrance and one for the exit of water. The pharynx is usually dilated in the form of a sac, pierced by several series of ciliated slits, and serves as a gill. Note: Most of the species when mature are firmly attached to foreign substances, but have free-swimming larvæ which are furnished with an elongated tail and somewhat resemble a tadpole. In this state the larva has a urochord and certain other structures resembling some embryonic vertebrates. See Ascidian, Doliolum, Salpa, Urochord, and Illust. of Social ascidian, under Social.

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• CLASSIFIC
  Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.
• CLASSIFICATORY
  Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification. "A classificatory system." Earle.
• UNITERABLE
  Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.
• CLASSICISM
  A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley.
• ANIMALIZATION
  1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.
• GRANDEUR
  The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action. Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show Of luxury . . . allure mine eye.
• ANIMALCULISM
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• COVER-POINT
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• CLASSIS
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• GRANDEESHIP
  The rank or estate of a grandee; lordship. H. Swinburne.
• ANIMALITY
  Animal existence or nature. Locke.
• GRANDMA; GRANDMAMMA
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• COVERLET
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• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• ANIMALLY
  Physically. G. Eliot.
• ANIMALNESS
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• GRANDUNCLE
  father's or mother's uncle.
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• DIVISIONALLY
  So as to be divisional.
• BLATTER
  To prate; to babble; to rail; to make a senseless noise; to patter. "The rain blattered." Jeffrey. They procured . . . preachers to blatter against me, . . . so that they had place and time to belie me shamefully. Latimer.
• FLATTER
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• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• BLATTEROON
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• BEFLATTER
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• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
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• MISDIVISION
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