uncites

[Lat. unc(us)=a hook; suff. -ites.] Palæont.: A genus of Spiriferide, from the Devonian of Europe. It is allied to Retzia (q. v.), but the beak of the ventral valve is slightly curved, the foramen disappears early, there is no hinge area, and shell structure is impunctate. *ŭn-çit'-ỹ, v . t . [Pref. un- (2), and Eng. city .] To deprive of the status or privileges of a city. "Some would have had it uncitied because unbishoped in our civil wars."-Fuller: Worthies, Gloucester, i. 398.