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myriapod (iou) and O'Neill, John (sh)


myriapod (iou)



myriapod adjective & noun. E19.
[mod. Latin Myriapoda (see below), formed as MYRIA- + -POD.]
Zoology.
A. noun. An arthropod of the class Myriapoda, which comprises the centipedes and millipedes. E19.
b. adjective. Having very many feet; spec. pertaining to or of the Nature of a myriapod. E19.
myri'apodal,
myri'apodan adjectives = MYRIAPOD adjective L19.
myri'apodous adjective = MYRIAPOD adjective M19.

O'Neill, John (sh)




born March 8, 1834, County Monaghan, Ire.
died Jan. 7, 1878, Omaha, Neb., U.S.

Irish-born military leader of the American branch of the Fenians, a secret Irish nationalist society.

He arrived in the U.S. in 1848 and settled in Tennessee, where he joined the Fenians. A supporter of its scheme to invade Canada to win Irish freedom from Britain, in 1866 he led a group of 600 men across the Niagara River and captured Fort Erie before fleeing back to the U.S. In 1870 he led a raid along the Vermont border that was repulsed; he led another raid on Manitoba in 1871. See also John O'Mahony.