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A structure or frame containing parallel or crosed bars, with interstices; a kind of latticework, such as is used ia the windows of prisons and cloisters. "A secret grate of iron bars." Shak.

Structure, as adapted to grind or sharpen; as, a hone of good grit.

gas or water main is usual in cities. Knight. -- Ground plot, the ground upon which any structure is erected; hence, any basis or foundation; also, a ground plan. -- Ground plum (Bot.), a leguminous plant (Astragalus caryocarpus) occurring from the Saskatchewan to Texas, and having a succulent plum-shaped pod. -- G…

blage of animals or planta, having some resemblance, or common characteristics in form or structure. The term has different uses, and may be made to include certain species of a genus, or a whole genus, or certain genera, or even several orders.

he land on either side to prevent lateral swaying; a rod or rope attached to the top of a structure, as of a derrick, and extending obliquely to the ground, where it is fastened.

The science which treats of the structure and diseases of women. -- Gyn`e*col"o*gist.

ustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth.

Having wings that are like hands in the structure and arrangement of their bones; -- said of bats. See Cheiroptera.

Half turned round; half inverted; (Crystallog.) having a twinned structure.

al history of reptiles; that branch of zoölogy which relates to reptiles, including their structure, classification, and habits.

ns differ from each other, the parent organism producing offspring different in habit and structure from itself, the original form, however, reappearing after one or more generations; -- opposed to homogenesis, or gamogenesis.

Having females very unlike the males in form and structure; -- as certain insects, the males of which are winged, and the females wingless.

mulus. (Physiol.) See under Stimulus. -- Heterologous tumor (Med.), a tumor differing in structure from the normal tissues of the body.

The absence of correspondence, or relation, in type of structure; lack of analogy between parts, owing to their being composed of different elements, or of like elements in different proportions; variation in structure from the normal form; -- opposed to homology.

Variation in arrangement from that existing in a normal form; heterogenous arrangement or structure, as, in botany, the deviation in position of the organs of a plant, from the ordinary or typical arrangement.

Of lofty structure; tall. "High-built organs." Tennyson. The high-built elephant his castle rears. Creech.

Pertaining to histology, or to the microscopic structure of the tissues of living organisms. -- His`to*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

That branch of biological science, which treats of the minute (microscopic) structure of animal and vegetable tissues; -- called also histiology.

A box, basket, or other structure, for the reception and habitation of a swarm of honeybees. Dryden.

Sameness 9kind or nature; uniformity of structure or material.