emancipist (emansipist)

[ There is much jealousy between the children of the rich emancipist [in New South Wales) and the free settlers. Darwin, Voyage of Beagle, II. 231. [ For some time past the free colonists [in the French penal colonies), by no means a numerous cla , have declined to employ emancipists , declaring that while they claimed the free man's wages they would not give the free man's work. Nineteenth Century , XXI. 839. emandibulate (e-man-dib'ū-lāt), a. priv. + mandibula , mandible: see mandibulate .] 1. In entom ., having no mandibles, or having those organs so modified that they cannot be used for grasping or biting, as in the Lepidoptera and most Diptera . This epithet was restricted by Kirby to species of the neuropterous family Phryganeidæ, in which the mandibles are soft and very minute, but the maxillæ and labium are well developed. 2. Having no lower jaw, as the lampreys and hags; cyclostomous, as a vertebrate.