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Bastard wing (Zoöl.), three to five quill feathers on a small joint corresponding to the thumb in some mam malia; the alula.

The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults.

A small flat curl worn on the temple by women. [Humorous]

e quality of being becoming, appropriate, or fit; congruity; fitness. The becomingness of human nature. Grew.

Applied colloquially to human flesh.

One who begs; one who asks or entreats earnestly, or with humility; a petitioner.

ual, actual or ideal; living existence, as distinguished from a thing without life; as, a human being; spiritual beings. What a sweet being is an honest mind ! Beau. & Fl. A Being of infinite benevolence and power. Wordsworth.

and instructed in all the mysteries of the Christian religion, in distinction from a catechumen, or one yet under instruction.

Polite or elegant literature; the humanities; -- used somewhat vaguely for literary works in which imagination and taste are predominant.

That part of the human body which extends downward from the breast to the thighs, and contains the bowels, or intestines; the abdomen.

To cause to yield; to render submissive; to subdue. "Except she bend her humor." Shak.

the sensibility to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only motives which influence human desires and actions, and that these are the sufficient explanation of ethical and jural conceptions.

d upon anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc.

Having the qualities of a beast; brutal; below the dignity of reason or humanity; irrational; carnal; beastly; sensual. Shak.

To make bestial, or like a beast; to degrade; to brutalize. The process of bestializing humanity. Hare.

ience and religion. An intestine struggle, open or secret, between authority and liberty. Hume.

Bitterness of feeling; choler; anger; ill humor; as, to stir one's bile. Prescott.

A brownish green pigment found in human gallstones and in old bile. It is a derivative of bilirubin.

A dark green pigment found in small quantity in human gallstones.

A reddish yellow pigment present in human bile, and in that from carnivorous and herbivorous animals; the normal biliary pigment.