in Natural History, the apertures in different parts of the bodies of insects communicating with the trachea or air-vesicles, and serving for the office of respiration.

in antiquity, certain marks impressed on the left shoulders of the soldiers when fitted.

were also a kind of notes or abbreviations, consisting only of points, disposed various ways; as in triangles, squares, crosses, &c.

is also a term introduced by the Franciscans, to express the marks or prints of our Saviour's wounds, said to have been miraculously impressed by him on the body of their ferapic father St Francis.