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

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

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 used among 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 heraphic father St Francis.