The science of extinct animals, a branch of paleontology.
Having long and spatulate, or racket-shaped, tail feathers.
Like a sot; doltish; very foolish; drunken. How ignorant are sottish pretenders to astrology! Swift. Syn. -- Dull; stupid; senseless; doltish; infatuate. -- Sot"tish*ly, adv. -- Sot"tish*ness, n.