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nce of some party or interest; as, every vote counts; accidents count for nothing. This excellent man . . . counted among the best and wisest of English statesmen. J. A. Symonds.

Of superior excellence; having qualities to be boasted of. [Colloq.] One of our crack speakers in the Commons. Dickens.

An individual of marked ability or excellence, esp. in some sport; as, he is a crackajack at tennis. [Slang]

as that produced by rubbing two fragments of a broken bone together, or by pressing upon cellular tissue containing air.

th hokes; as, the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone; a cribriform compress. Cribriform cells (Bot.), those which have here and there oblique or transverse sieve plates, or places perforated with many holes.

A system of prison discipline employing for consecutive periods cellular confinement, associated imprisonment under the mark system, restraint intermediate between imprisonment and freedom, and liberation on ticket of leave.

ar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar. Get me an iron crow, and bring it straight Unto my cell. Shak.

ular lenslike body in the eye, serving to focus the rays of light. It consists of rodlike cells derived from the external embryonic epithelium.

particles resembling crystals, consisting of protein matter, which occur in certain plant cells; -- called also protein crystal.

The substance which, added to the material of a cell wall, makes it waterproof, as in cork.

The conversion of cell walls into a material which repels water, as in cork.

A variety of cellulose, occuring as a fine transparent membrane covering the aerial organs of plants, and forming an essential ingredient of cork; by oxidation it passes to suberic acid.

The circulation or movement of protoplasmic granules within a living vegetable cell.

A division of Bryozoa, in which the cells have circular apertures.

f electric circuit, on the magnetization of steel, on the polarization of an electrolytic cell, or on the electric condition of a vacuum has been applied in the various cymoscopes.

A nucleated cell having an envelope or cell wall, as a red blood corpuscle or an epithelial cell; a cell concerned in growth.

The nucleus of a cell; the germinal or active spot of a cellule, through or in which cell development takes place.

The nucleus of the cytula or parent cell. Hæckel.

Development of cells in animal and vegetable organisms. See Gemmation, Budding, Karyokinesis; also Cell development, under Cell.

Of or pertaining to cytogenesis or cell development.