| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Balfour Bal·four (bāl'f&oobreve;r', -fôr'), Francis Maitland. 1851-1882.
Scottish embryologist and zoologist noted for his studies of the development of the urogenital and nervous systems in vertebrates.