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A division of the Invertebrata, nearly equivalent to the Articulata. It includes the Arthoropoda and Anarthropoda. By some zoölogists it is applied to the former only.

A body formed from albumin by pancreatic and gastric digestion. It is convertible into antipeptone.

from which strata dip in opposite directions, as from the ridge of a roof. -- Anticlinal vertebra (Anat.), one of the dorsal vertebræ, which in many animals has an upright spine toward which the spines of the neighboring vertebræ are inclined.

Opposed to, or checking motion; acting upward; -- applied to an inverted action of the intestinal tube.

in the same sentence; as, "The prodigal robs his heir; the miser robs himself." "He had covertly shot at Cromwell; he how openly aimed at the Queen."

At the extremity most remote from the hilum, as the embryo, or inverted with respect to the seed, as the radicle. Lindley.

w known to be hydrogen dioxide; -- so called because apparently antagonistic to ozone, converting it into ordinary oxygen.

In a vertical line. The anchor in apeak, when the cable has been sufficiently hove in to bring the ship over it, and the ship is them said to be hove apeak. [Spelt also apeek.]

ty, to which he before adhered; esp., one who has forsaken his religion for another; a pervert; a renegade.

To call upon another to decide a question controverted, to corroborate a statement, to vindicate one's rights, etc.; as, I appeal to all mankind for the truth of what is alleged. Hence: To call on one for aid; to make earnest request. I appeal to the Scriptures in the original. Horsley. They appealed to the sword. Maca…

To make profit of; to convert to one's own profit; said esp. of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor.

Improvement of common lands, by inclosing and converting them to the uses of husbandry for the advantage of the lord of the manor. Blackstone.

treelike disposition of the gray and white nerve tissues in the cerebellum, as seen in a vertical section.

A fossil bird, of the Jurassic period, remarkable for having a long tapering tail of many vertebræ with feathers along each side, and jaws armed with teeth, with other reptilian characteristics.

nimals or plants or their systems of organs are assumed to have been constructed; as, the vertebrate archetype.

tric night signals in which a series of double electric lamps (white and red) is arranged vertically on a mast, and operated from a keyboard below.

To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason. I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will. Milton.

To convert to Arianism.

A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal.

A frame, generally vertical, for holding small arms.