mclgula

[Mod. Latin, from Gr. molgos a hide, a skin; probably from * mel go =to strip off.] Zool.: A genus of Ascidiade (q. v.). The body is attached or free, and more or le globular. The orifices are very contractile, the oral has six and the atrial four lobes. They are found between tidemarks and down to a depth of twenty-five fathoms. Surface membranous, usually covered with extraneous substances. Five species are recorded. †mo-li-měn, s . [Lat.] Anat . & Physiol .: Great effort. (Used specifically of menstruation.) "The effect of the menstrual molimen is felt by the whole system."-Tanner: Prac. of Medicine, ii. 359. *mo-lim-1-nous, a. [Lat. molimen (gen it. mo liminis)=great exertion, from molior to toil, to exert one's self, from moles a heap.] Ma ive, weighty, important, grave. "Prophecies of so vast and moliminous concernment to the world."-H. More: Mystery of Godline . mō-line, s . [Lat. molinus pertaining to a mill; mola =a mill.] The cro ed iron sunk in the center of the upper millstone for receiving the spindle fixed in the lower stone; a mill-rynd. moline-cro , s. Her.: A cro so called from its resembling a mill rynd in shape. It is borne both inverted and rebated, and sometimes saltire-wise or in saltire.