YOICKS !
\jˈɔ͡ɪks], \jˈɔɪks], \j_ˈɔɪ_k_s]\
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A cry of encouragement to foxhounds while drawing ; (?) a corr. of Fr. oyez ! oyez ! i.e. listen to the dogs. Dame Juliana Berners mentions, in her Book of Hunting (fifteenth century), the cry, " Oyez, oyez a Bemounde," the name of a hound. See Tally ho!
By Henry Percy Smith
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).