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Between oceans; connecting oceans; as, interoceanic communication; an interoceanic canal.

n animal; as, the intestinal tube; intestinal digestion; intestinal ferments. Intestinal canal. Same as Intestine, n. -- Intestinal worm (Zoöl.), any species of helminth living in the intestinal canal of any animal. The species are numerous.

That part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus.

An oily liquid, Cl3.CHO, analogous to chloral and bromal.

One of a series of compounds containing iodine, and analogous to the chlorhydrins.

, crystalline, volatile substance, CI3H, having an offensive odor and sweetish taste, and analogous to chloroform. It is used in medicine as a healing and antiseptic dressing for wounds and sores.

to, or containing, iodine. See -ous (chemical suffix). Iodous acid, a hypothetical acid, analogous to chlorous acid.

eries which differ by a constant difference; as, ethane, ethylene, an acetylene, or their analogous compounds, form an isologous series.

The same, or equal, in law or right; one in kind or origin; analogous; similar. Dana.

The theory of curing a diseased organ by eating the analogous organ of a healthy animal. Mayne.

s. Shak. His odes are some of them panegyrical, others moral; the rest are jovial or bacchanalian. Dryden.

udgment. (3) Of two judgments giving an inference. Judgments have been further classed as analytic, synthetic, and identical.

The water course of a street; a little canal or channel; a gutter; also, a puddle. Bp. Hall.

near the Mediterranean. They are round, about the size of a pea, contain coloring matter analogous to carmine, and are used in dyeing. They were anciently thought to be of a vegetable nature, and were used in medicine. [Written also chermes.]

A convex portion of a vessel's figure where a sudden change of shape occurs, as in a canal boat, where a nearly vertical side joins a nearly flat bottom.

A series of canals through which a stream of water is directed for suspending, carrying off, and depositing at different distances, the ground ore of a metal. Ure.

One of a series of anhydrides of an amido type, analogous to the lactones, as oxindol.

A lake steamer or canal boat.

The act of liberating or the state of being liberated. This mode of analysis requires perfect liberation from all prejudged system. Pownall.

A rise; a degree of elevation; as, the lift of a lock in canals.