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pseudoneuroptera |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Insecta \In*sec"ta\, n. pl [NL. See {Insect}.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) One of the classes of Arthropoda, including those that have one pair of antenn[ae], three pairs of mouth organs, and breathe air by means of trache[ae], opening by spiracles along the sides of the body. In this sense it includes the Hexapoda, or six-legged insects and the Myriapoda, with numerous legs. See {Insect}, n. 2. (Zo["o]l.) In a more restricted sense the Hexapoda alone. See {Hexapoda}. 3. (Zo["o]l.) In the most general sense the Hexapoda, Myriapoda, and Arachnoidea, combined. Note: The typical Insecta, or hexapod insects, are divided into several orders viz.: {Hymenoptera}, as the bees and ants; {Diptera}, as the common flies and gnats; {Aphaniptera}, or fleas; {Lepidoptera}, or moths and butterflies; {Neuroptera}, as the ant-lions and hellgamite; {Coleoptera}, or beetles; {Hemiptera}, as bugs, lice, aphids; {Orthoptera}, as grasshoppers and cockroaches; {Pseudoneuroptera}, as the dragon flies and termites; {Euplexoptera}, or earwings; {Thysanura}, as the springtails, podura, and lepisma. See these words in the Vocabulary. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pseudoneuroptera \Pseu`do*neu*rop"te*ra\, n. pl [NL. See {Pseudo-}, and {Neuroptera}.] (Zo["o]l.) division of insects (Zo["o]l.) reticulated wings, as in the Neuroptera, but having an active pupa state. It includes the dragon flies, May flies, white ants, etc By some zo["o]logists they are classed with the Orthoptera; by others with the Neuroptera. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Book \Book\ (b[oo^]k), n. [OE. book, bok, AS b[=o]c; akin to Goth. b[=o]ka a letter, in pl book, writing, Icel. b[=o]k, Sw bok, Dan. bog, OS b[=o]k, D. boek, OHG. puoh, G. buch; and fr AS b[=o]c, b[=e]ce, beech; because the ancient Saxons and Germans in general wrote runes on pieces of beechen board. Cf {Beech}.] 1. A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many folded and bound sheets containing continuous printing or writing. Note: When blank, it is called a blank book. When printed, the term often distinguishes a bound volume, or a volume of some size, from a pamphlet. Note: It has been held that under the copyright law, a book is not necessarily a volume made of many sheets bound together; it may be printed on a single sheet, as music or a diagram of patterns. --Abbott. 2. A composition, written or printed; a treatise. A good book is the precious life blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. --Milton. 3. A part or subdivision of a treatise or literary work as the tenth book of ``Paradise Lost.'' 4. A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, etc 5. Six tricks taken by one side in the game of whist; in certain other games, two or more corresponding cards, forming a set Note: Book is used adjectively or as a part of many compounds; as book buyer, bookrack book club, book lore, book sale, book trade memorandum book, cashbook. {Book account}, an account or register of debt or credit in a book. {Book debt}, a debt for items charged to the debtor by the creditor in his book of accounts. {Book learning}, learning acquired from books, as distinguished from practical knowledge. ``Neither does it so much require book learning and scholarship, as good natural sense to distinguish true and false.'' --Burnet. {Book louse} (Zo["o]l.), one of several species of minute, wingless insects injurious to books and papers. They belong to the {Pseudoneuroptera}. {Book moth} (Zo["o]l.), the name of several species of moths, the larv[ae] of which eat books. {Book oath}, an oath made on {The Book}, or Bible. {The Book of Books}, the Bible. {Book post}, a system under which books, bulky manuscripts, etc., may be transmitted by mail {Book scorpion} (Zo["o]l.), one of the false scorpions ({Chelifer cancroides}) found among books and papers. It can run sidewise and backward, and feeds on small insects. {Book stall}, a stand or stall, often in the open air, for retailing books. {Canonical books}. See {Canonical}. {In one's books}, in one's favor. ``I was so much in his books, that at his decease he left me his lamp.'' --Addison. {To bring to book}. a To compel to give an account. b To compare with an admitted authority. ``To bring it manifestly to book is impossible.'' --M. Arnold. {To curse by bell, book, and candle}. See under {Bell}. {To make a book} (Horse Racing), to lay bets (recorded in a pocket book) against the success of every horse, so that the bookmaker wins on all the unsuccessful horses and loses only on the winning horse or horses. {To speak by the book}, to speak with minute exactness. {Without book}. a By memory. b Without authority.
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