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A process of bone formation in which ossification takes place within the substance of the cartilage.

A fold of the endoderm, which projects into the blood cavity of ascidians. See Tunicata.

er of species, many of them minute. The group embraces several orders; as the Phyllopoda, Ostracoda, Copepoda, and Pectostraca. See Copepoda, Phyllopoda, and Cladocera.

Relating to the Entomostraca. -- n.

Belonging to the Entomostracans.

See Entoplastron. -- En`to*ster"nal, a.

The granule within the nucleolus or entoblast of a nucleated cell. Agassiz.

Without a beak.

A kind of chronogram. [R.] B. Jonson.

Pertaining to, or like, the genus Etheostoma. -- n.

From or by an after act, or thing done afterward; in consequence of a subsequent act; retrospective.

The small aperture or foremen in the outer coat of the ovule of a plant.

Any protuberance of a bone which is not natural; an excrescence or morbid enlargement of a bone. Coxe.

fter act, or thing done afterward; in consequence of a subsequent act; retrospective. Ex post facto law, a law which operates by after enactment. The phrase is popularly applied to any law, civil or criminal, which is enacted with a retrospective effect, and with intention to produce that effect; but in its true applic…

and urging him to make redress or to desist; to remonstrate; -- followed by with. Men expostulate with erring friends; they bring accusations against enemies who have done them a wrong. Jowett (Thuc. ).

The act of expostulating or reasoning with a person in opposition to some impropriety of conduct; remonstrance; earnest and kindly protest; dissuasion. We must use expostulation kindly. Shak.

One who expostulates. Lamb.

Containing expostulation or remonstrance; as, an expostulatory discourse or letter.

Exposure. [Obs.] Shak.

Most distant; farthest. A spacious cave within its farmost part. Dryden.