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The son of Iapetus (one of the Titans) and Clymene, fabled by the poets to have surpassed all mankind in knowledge, and to have formed men of clay to whom he gave life by means of fire stolen from heaven. Jupiter, being angry at this, sent Mercury to bind Prometheus to Mount Caucasus, where a vulture preyed upon his liver.
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Same as Glycerite.
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Shield-shaped; clypeate.
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A follower of Robert Owen, who tried to reorganize society on a socialistic basis, and established an industrial community on the Clyde, Scotland, and, later, a similar one in Indiana.
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Furnished with a shield, or a protective plate or shell.
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That which is injected; especially, a liquid medicine thrown into a cavity of the body by a syringe or pipe; a clyster; an enema.
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of Clypeus
n.
An injection, or clyster, thrown into the rectum as a medicine, or to impart nourishment.
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The frontal plate of the head of an insect.
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A river duck (Spatula clypeata), native of Europe and America. It has a large bill, broadest towards the tip. The male is handsomely variegated with green, blue, brown, black, and white on the body; the head and neck are dark green. Called also broadbill, spoonbill, shovelbill, and maiden duck. The Australian shoveler, or shovel-nosed duck (S. rhynchotis), is a similar species.
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A liquid injected into the lower intestines by means of a syringe; an injection; an enema.
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Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytolaema. The males have a ruby-colored throat or breast.
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Same as Clyster.
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Connected with, or related to, the deluge, or to a cataclysm; as, clysmian changes.
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A washing or bathing; also, a clyster.
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The class Echinodermata which includes the sea urchins. They have a calcareous, usually more or less spheroidal or disk-shaped, composed of many united plates, and covered with movable spines. See Spatangoid, Clypeastroid.
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Shaped like a round buckler or shield; scutate.
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Like or related to the genus Clupeaster; -- applied to a group of flattened sea urchins, with a rosette of pores on the upper side.
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Any structure having a flowerlike form; especially, the group of five broad ambulacra on the upper side of the spatangoid and clypeastroid sea urchins. See Illust. of Spicule, and Sand dollar, under Sand.
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Washing; cleansing.
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