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and to certain Batrachia, the ova of which become attached to the skin of the back of the parent, where they develop; dorsiparous.

ssion, obedience, or deference; submissive to natural or legal superiors; obedient, as to parents or superiors; as, a dutiful son or daughter; a dutiful ward or servant; a dutiful subject.

Specifically, obedience or submission due to parents and superiors. Shak.

in which the hybrids are sterile among themselves, but are fertile with members of either parent race.

, honor, consciousness, etc.; obscuration; gloom; darkness. All the posterity of our fist parents suffered a perpetual eclipse of spiritual life. Sir W. Raleigh. As in the soft and sweet eclipse, When soul meets soul on lovers' lips. Shelley. Annular eclipse. (Astron.) See under Annular. -- Cycle of eclipses. See unde…

the celestial sphere, making an angle with the equinoctial of about 23º 28'. It is the apparent path of the sun, or the real path of the earth as seen from the sun.

The more transparent cells, which finally become external, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals.

The outer transparent layer of protoplasm in a developing ovum.

Entailed; belonging to the eldest son. [Obs.] Bastard eigne, a bastard eldest son whose parents afterwards intermarry.

A transparent, colorless oil obtained from elemi resin by distillation with water; also, a crystallizable extract from the resin.

To depart to, or be at, a distance; esp., to recede apparently from the sun, as a planet in its orbit. [R.]

An art or process of flooding transparent colored glaze over designs stamped or molded on earthenware or porcelain. Ure.

Issuing or flowing forth; emanating; passing forth into an act, or making itself apparent by an effect; -- said of mental acts; as, an emanant volition.

o set free from the power of another; to liberate; as: (a) To set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child. (b) To set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit; as, to emancipate a slave, or a country. Brasidas . . . declaring that he was sent to emancipate Hellas. Jowett (Thucyd. ).…

a. -- Emperor moth (Zoöl.), one of several large and beautiful bombycid moths, with transparent spots on the wings; as the American Cecropia moth (Platysamia cecropia), and the European species (Saturnia pavonia). -- Emperor paper. See under Paper. -- Purple emperor (Zoöl.), a large, strong British butterfly (Apatur…

Not really, but apparently. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

s by endogenous division, as in the development of one or more cells in the interior of a parent cell.

The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion.

at the germ is created entirely new, not merely expanded, by the procreative power of the parents. It is opposed to the theory of evolution, also to syngenesis.

Adnate to the surface of the ovary, so as to be apparently inserted upon the top of it; -- said of stamens, petals, sepals, and also of the disk.