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An involuntary discharge of urine; incontinence of urine.

A figure by which the same word is used both at the beginning and at the end of a sentence; as, "Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice." Phil. iv. 4.

A figure by which the same word or clause is repeated after intervening matter. Gibbs.

A figure by which a speaker recalls a word or words, in order to substitute something else stronger or more significant; as, Most brave! Brave, did I say most heroic act!

The insertion of a letter or a sound in the body of a word; as, the b in "nimble" from AS. nemol.

A full or additional explanation; exegesis.

rocreative power of the parents. It is opposed to the theory of evolution, also to syngenesis.

One who believes in, or advocates the theory of, epigenesis.

superficial part, of a bone, which ossifies separately from the central portion, or diaphysis.

action of a play, poem, and the like, and leads on to the catastrophe; -- opposed to protasis.

The addition of a letter at the end of a word, without changing its sense; as, numb for num, whilst for whiles.

A gradual oxidation from exposure to air and moisture, as in the decay of old trees or of dead animals.

A figure o Must I give way and room to your rash choler Shall I be frighted when a madman stares Shak.

The quality or condition of having strong reproductive powers; generation with full fertility between different species or races, specif. between hybrids of the first generation.

In old writers, the operations concerned in the removal of parts of the body.

An eruption of the skin; cutaneous efflorescence.

Exposition; explanation; especially, a critical explanation of a text or portion of Scripture.

See Exosmose.

Any protuberance of a bone which is not natural; an excrescence or morbid enlargement of a bone. Coxe.

That which is evidently false; an assertion or statement the falsity of which is plainly apparent; -- opposed to truism.