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Limulus :: Limulus (n.) The only existing genus of Merostomata. It includes only a few species from the East Indies, and one (Limulus polyphemus) from the Atlantic coast of North America. Called also Molucca crab, king crab, horseshoe crab, and horsefoot..

Horseshoe :: Horseshoe (n.) The Limulus of horsehoe crab.

Stubbed :: Stub (n.) A stub nail; an old horseshoe nail; also, stub iron..

Merostomata :: Merostomata (n. pl.) A class of Arthropoda, allied to the Crustacea. It includes the trilobites, Eurypteroidea, and Limuloidea. All are extinct except the horseshoe crabs of the last group. See Limulus..

Phylactolaemata :: Phylactolaemata (n. pl.) An order of fresh-water Bryozoa in which the tentacles are arranged on a horseshoe-shaped lophophore, and the mouth is covered by an epistome. Called also Lophopoda, and hippocrepians..

Hippocrepiform :: Hippocrepiform (a.) Shaped like a horseshoe.

Clip :: Clip (n.) A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; -- called also toe clip and beak..

Poecilopoda :: Poecilopoda (n. pl.) Originally, an artificial group including many parasitic Entomostraca, together with the horseshoe crabs (Limuloidea)..

Horseshoe :: Horseshoe (n.) A shoe for horses, consisting of a narrow plate of iron in form somewhat like the letter U, nailed to a horse's hoof..

Horseshoe :: Horseshoe (n.) Anything shaped like a horsehoe crab.

Horsefoot :: Horsefoot (n.) The Limulus or horseshoe crab.

Frost :: Frost (v. t.) To roughen or sharpen, as the nail heads or calks of horseshoes, so as to fit them for frosty weather..

Manilla :: Manilla (n.) A piece of copper of the shape of a horseshoe, used as money by certain tribes of the west coast of Africa..

Blacksmith :: Blacksmith (n.) A smith who works in iron with a forge, and makes iron utensils, horseshoes, etc..

Panton :: Panton (n.) A horseshoe to correct a narrow, hoofbound heel..

Heat :: Heat (n.) A single complete operation of heating, as at a forge or in a furnace; as, to make a horseshoe in a certain number of heats..

Hippocrepian :: Hippocrepian (n.) One of an order of fresh-water Bryozoa, in which the tentacles are on a lophophore, shaped like a horseshoe. See Phylactolaema..

Sponged :: Sponge (n.) The extremity, or point, of a horseshoe, answering to the heel..

Lunette :: Lunette (n.) A half horseshoe, which wants the sponge..

Armature :: Armature (n.) A piece of soft iron used to connect the two poles of a magnet, or electro-magnet, in order to complete the circuit, or to receive and apply the magnetic force. In the ordinary horseshoe magnet, it serves to prevent the dissipation of the magnetic force..

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