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A reed stop in an organ.

One of a pair of organs used by the male for grasping the female among many of the Crustacea.

The keyboard of an organ, pianoforte, or harmonium.

A small organ at the upper part of the vulva, homologous to the penis in the male.

Growing together; cohering, as in the organic cohesion of similar parts; uniting.

One of the round variety of bacteria, a vegetable organism, generally less than a thousandth of a millimeter in diameter.

A small, rounded, marine organism, capable of braking up into coccoliths.

distinguished from the special sensations which are located in, or ascribed to, separate organs, as the eye and ear. It is supposed to depend on the ganglionic system.

perly called a most important political institution . . . The coffeehouses were the chief organs through which the public opinion of the metropolis vented itself . . . Every man of the upper or middle class went daily to his coffeehouse to learn the news and discuss it. Every coffeehouse had one or more orators, to who…

An organ of female insects, containing a cement to unite the ejected ova.

One of a class of organic bases, C8H11N, usually pungent oily liquids, belonging to the pyridine series, and obtained from bone oil, coal tar, naphtha, and certain alkaloids.

A suckerlike organ at the base of the abdomen of insects belonging to the Collembola.

d . . . the title page had become the principal direct means of identifying the book. De Morgan. The book was uninjured from title page to colophon. Sir W. Scott.

Pertaining to, or derived from, the columbo root. Columbic acid (Chem.), an organic acid extracted from the columbo root as a bitter, yellow, amorphous substance.

One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen of scorpions.

One who comes out or withdraws from a religious or other organization; a radical reformer. [Colloq. U. S.]

The organized system by which armies and military posts are supplied with food and daily necessaries.

rd keeper and accession of another. [Eng.] -- The United States Christians Commission, an organization among the people of the North, during the Civil War, which afforded material comforts to the Union soldiers, and performed services of a religious character in the field and in hospitals. -- The United States Sanitar…

Common character; likeness. [R.] The essential community of nature between organic growth and inorganic growth. H. Spencer.

Having all the parts or organs which belong to it or to the typical form; having calyx, corolla, stamens, and pistil.