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n.
A fish of the genus Ostracion and allied genera.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Ostracize
n.
A genus of plectognath fishes having the body covered with solid, immovable, bony plates. It includes the trunkfishes.
n.
Any one of several species of plectognath fishes, belonging to the genus Ostracion, or the family Ostraciontidae, having an angular body covered with a rigid integument consisting of bony scales. Some of the species are called also coffer fish, and boxfish.
v. t.
To exile by ostracism; to banish by a popular vote, as at Athens.
n.
Any one of a family of bivalves, of which the oyster is the type.
n. pl.
A suborder of fishes of which Ostracion is the type.
n. pl.
Ostracoidea.
a.
Of or pertaining to the Ostracoidea.
v. t.
To banish from society; to put under the ban; to cast out from social, political, or private favor; as, he was ostracized by his former friends.
n. pl.
A division of bivalve mollusks including the oysters and allied shells.
imp. & p. p.
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n. pl.
One of the subclasses of Crustacea, including a large number of species, many of them minute. The group embraces several orders; as the Phyllopoda, Ostracoda, Copepoda, and Pectostraca. See Copepoda, Phyllopoda, and Cladocera.
n.
Banishment by popular vote, -- a means adopted at Athens to rid the city of a person whose talent and influence gave umbrage.
n. pl.
An order of Entomostraca possessing hard bivalve shells. They are of small size, and swim freely about.
n.
One of the Ostracoidea.
v. t.
To vote against, by putting a black ball into a ballot box; to reject or exclude, as by voting against with black balls; to ostracize.
n.
A fossil oyster.
n.
A form of sentence among the ancient Syracusans by which they banished for five years a citizen suspected of having dangerous influence or ambition. It was similar to the ostracism in Athens; but olive leaves were used instead of shells for ballots.
n.
Banishment; exclusion; as, social ostracism.
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