Cacodemon :: Cacodemon (n.) An evil spirit; a devil or demon.

Cacodemon :: Cacodemon (n.) The nightmare.

Code :: Code (n.) A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest..

Code :: Code (n.) Any system of rules or regulations relating to one subject; as, the medical code, a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians; the naval code, a system of rules for making communications at sea means of signals..

Codefendant :: Codefendant (n.) A joint defendant.

Codeine :: Codeine (n.) One of the opium alkaloids; a white crystalline substance, C18H21NO3, similar to and regarded as a derivative of morphine, but much feebler in its action; -- called also codeia..

Codetta :: Codetta (n.) A short passage connecting two sections, but not forming part of either; a short coda..

Codex :: Codex (n.) A book; a manuscript.

Codex :: Codex (n.) A collection or digest of laws; a code.

Codex :: Codex (n.) An ancient manuscript of the Sacred Scriptures, or any part of them, particularly the New Testament..

Codex :: Codex (n.) A collection of canons.

Malacoderm :: Malacoderm (n.) One of a tribe of beetles (Malacodermata), with a soft and flexible body, as the fireflies..

Manucode :: Manucode (n.) Any bird of the genus Manucodia, of Australia and New Guinea. They are related to the bird of paradise..

Mycoderma :: Mycoderma (n.) One of the forms in which bacteria group themselves; a more or less thick layer of motionless but living bacteria, formed by the bacteria uniting on the surface of the fluid in which they are developed. This production differs from the zooloea stage of bacteria by not having the intermediary mucous substance..

Mycoderma :: Mycoderma (n.) A genus of microorganisms of which the acetic ferment (Mycoderma aceti), which converts alcoholic fluids into vinegar, is a representative. Cf. Mother..

Ostracodermi :: Ostracodermi (n. pl.) A suborder of fishes of which Ostracion is the type.

Placoderm :: Placoderm (n.) One of the Placodermi.

Placodermal :: Placodermal (a.) Of or pertaining to the placoderms; like the placoderms.

Placodermata :: Placodermata (n. pl.) Same as Placodermi.

Placodermi :: Placodermi (n. pl.) An extinct group of fishes, supposed to be ganoids. The body and head were covered with large bony plates. See Illust. under Pterichthys, and Coccosteus..

Sarcode :: Sarcode (n.) A name applied by Dujardin in 1835 to the gelatinous material forming the bodies of the lowest animals; protoplasm.

Sarcoderm :: Sarcoderm (n.) Alt. of sarcoderm.

Sarcoderma :: sarcoderma (n.) A fleshy covering of a seed, lying between the external and internal integuments..

Sarcoderma :: sarcoderma (n.) A sarcocarp.

Zincode :: Zincode (n.) The positive electrode of an electrolytic cell; anode.

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