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; also, any one of a group of substances resembling glyoxime proper, and of which it is a type. See Oxime.

f a family (glyptodontidæ) of extinct South American edentates, of which Glyptodon is the type. About twenty species are known.

A kind of square-cut type, with no hair lines.

A nickname sometimes applied in contempt to a Mexican of the lowest type. [Low, U. S.]

a suctorial mouth, with labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings. It is the type of the order Hyperotpeta. Called also hagfish, borer, slime eel, sucker, and sleepmarken.

The type of character of the Hebrews. The governing idea of Hebraism is strictness of conscience. M. Arnold.

al; pertaining especially to slow waste of animal tissue, as in consumption; as, a hectic type in disease; a hectic flush.

A place into which a tailor throws his shreds, or a printer his broken type. Hudibras. Gates of hell. (Script.) See Gate, n., 4.

The type of character of the ancient Greeks, who aimed at culture, grace, and amenity, as the chief elements in human well-being and perfection.

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.

Producing a different type of organism; developing into a different form of tissue, as cartilage which develops into bone. Haeckel.

cters, language, etc.; applied esp. to certain ancient inscriptions showing the primitive type of the oldest form of the Arabic, still spoken in Southern Arabia. Brande & C.

can bird (Opisthocomus cristatus); the crested touraco. By some zoölogists it is made the type of a distinct order (Opisthocomi).

Correspondence or relation in type of structure in contradistinction to similarity of function; as, the relation in structure between the leg and arm of a man; or that between the arm of a man, the fore leg of a horse, the wing of a bird, and the fin of a fish, all these organs being modifications of one type of struct…

Of the same type of structure; pertaining to a homotype; as, homotypal parts.

A term suggested by Haeckel to be instead of serial homology. See Homotype.

A compound of the binary type, in which hydrogen is united with some other element.

rtebræ, and sharp, conical teeth set in sockets. Its wings were well developed. It is the type of the order Odontotormæ.

ame when proposed as a pattern to be copied, or a standard to be reached; one of the archetypes or patterns of created things, conceived by the Platonists to have excited objectively from eternity in the mind of the Deity. Thence to behold this new-created world, The addition of his empire, how it showed In prospect fr…

een in different individuals, excluding everything defective or unseemly, so as to form a type or model of the species. Thus, the Apollo Belvedere is the ideal of the beauty and proportion of the human frame. Fleming. Beau ideal. See Beau ideal.