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A variant of pall - mall. pellock1 (pel'ok), n. [A var. of pellet pellet with substituted stituted dim. term. -ock.] A ball; a bullet. See pellet. [Scotch.] 2 n . pellock2, See pellack. pellucid (pe-lu's id), id), a. [= F. pellucide, perlucere, shine through, be transparent, Such a diaphanous, pellucid , dainty Body as you see a Crystal-gla is. Howell , Letters, I. i. 29. [NL., neut. pl. of pell i branch i at us : see pell i branchiate.] A suborder or superfamily of nudibranchiates destitute of branch iæ, whose functions are a umed by the skin. It comprises the families Limapontiidæ , Elysiidæ , and Rhodopidæ . E entially the same as Pell i branchia and Derma top no a . pell i branchiate (pel-i-brang'ki-at), a. and n. [ pell i branch i at us , pell is , skin, + branch iæ, gills.] I. a. Breathing by means of the skin; of or pertaining to the Pell i branch i at a . II. n. A pell i branchiate mollusk. pellicant, n. An obsolete form of pelican . pellicle (pel'i-kl), n. [= F. pellicule = Pr. pel licula = Sp. película = Pg. pellicula = It. pell i cula , pellicola , pellicula , a small skin, dim. 3. Figuratively, clear; transparent to mental of pell is, skin, hide: see pell1.] 1. A little or thin skin; a cuticle; a film; a scum: as, the nacreous pellicle of some shells; the coaly pel licle of many fo il plants; the filmy pellicle or seum of infusions in which infusorial animalcules or microscopic fungi develop. 2. Admitting the pa age of light, but not properly transparent; translucent; limpid; not opaque; in entom., transparent, but not nece arily colorle ; translucent. More pellucid streams, An ampler ether. Words worth, Laodamia. Thoreau , Walden, p. 195. Still its water is green and pellucid as ever. vision. A lustrous and pellucid soul. Browning, Ring and Book, II. 35. Pellucid zone, the zona pellucid a; the inclosing mem brane of the mammalian ovum. It is of considerable thickne and strength, and under high magnification shows a radiately striated structure, whence it is also called zona radiata. The kernell or woodie substance within the date is di pellucidity (pel-u-sid'i-ti), n. [= F. pellu vided from the fleshie pulp and meat thereof by many white pellicles or thin skins betweene. Holland, tr. of Pliny, xiii. 4. We are acquainted with a mere pellicle of the globe on which we live. Most have not delved six feet beneath the Thoreau, Walden, p. 355. surface. 2. In chem., a thin crust formed on the surface of saline solutions when evaporated to a certain degree. This pellicle consists of crystallized saline particles.-3. In bot., same as cortical layer (which see, under cortical ).