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Lengthwise; along. [Archaic] The doors were all of adamants eterne, I-clenched overthwart and endelong With iron tough. Chaucer. He pricketh endelong the large space. Chaucer. To thrust the raft endlong across the moat. Sir W. Scott.

Farthest; remotest; at the very end. Tylor.

A combining form signifying within; as, endocarp, endogen, endocuneiform, endaspidean.

Entoblast; endoplast. See Nucleus,

Relating to the endoblast; as, the endoblastic layer.

Pertaining to the endocardium.

Inflammation of the endocardium.

The membrane lining the cavities of the heart.

The inner layer of a ripened or fructified ovary.

Growing or developing within cartilage; -- applied esp. to developing bone.

The coloring matter within the cells of plants, whether green, red, yellow, or any other color.

To teach; to indoctrinate. [Obs.] Donne.

The inner layer of the cells of Bryozoa.

The inner layer of the skin or integument of an animal.

Of or pertaining to the endoderm.

A layer of cells forming a kind of cuticle inside of the proper cortical layer, or surrounding an individual fibrovascular bundle.

Marrying within the same tribe; -- opposed to exogamous.

Marriage only within the tribe; a custom restricting a man in his choice of a wife to the tribe to which he belongs; -- opposed to exogamy.

e whole diameter, not forming annual layers, and with no distinct pith. The leaves of the endogens have, usually, parallel veins, their flowers are mostly in three, or some multiple of three, parts, and their embryos have but a single cotyledon, with the first leaves alternate. The endogens constitute one of the great…

Endogeny.