Whale
a name that may be taken as equivalent to Cetacean, and applied to any member of that order of mammals, which includes two great sets:
B Grellis A FA H TH B Blow-hole A Upper arm FA Fore arm SKELETON OF WHALE "Memoirs of a Minister of France"; "The Red Blockade" (1895); "The Man in Black" (1896); "Shrewsbury" (1897); "The Castle Inn" (1898); "Abbess of Vlaye" (1904); "Wild Geese" (1908), etc. Several of his stories have been dramatized.
WEYMOUTH, a seaport and markettown of England, in Dorsetshire, comprising the town and chapelry of Weymouth and the town and parish of Melcombe, the former on the S. and the latter on the N. side of the Wey, 8 miles from Dorchester. Weymouth is old and pooly built. It communicates with Melcombe, to which it is united by a handsome bridge. It became a place of fashionable resort, in consequence of its being frequented by George III., and is now H Hand P. TH. L. Remains of hip bone W Whale bone the toothed whales, such as sperm whale and dolphin, and the whalebone whales, such as right whale and rorqual, in which the teeth are only embryonic. The order Cetacea is usually divided into three sub-orders: (1) the Mystacoceti or Balænoidea, baleen or whalebone whales; (2) the Odontoceti or Delphinoidea toothed whales; and (3) the Archæoceti or extinct Ze Zeuglodonts. The differences between the extant sub-orders are so great that any idea of the close relationship must be abondoned; their common ancestry must be far back, and indeed it is doubtful whether our classification might not be brought nearer the truth by recognizing two distinct orders. Less specialized than the modern types are the extinct Zeuglodonts of the Eocene WHALEBONE period, but it is by no means certain that they should be included within the order Cetacea.