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period of duration, of anything that is conceived of as resembling a natural organism in structure or functions; as, the life of a state, a machine, or a book; authority is the life of government.

Like a stone; having a stony structure.

It is the only known representative of a special family (Lophiomyidæ), remarkable for the structure of the skull. It has handlike feet, and the hair is peculiar in structure and arrangement.

Leaning to one side because of some defect of structure; as, a lopsided ship. Marryat.

A tumor having a structure resembling that of a lymphatic gland; -- called also lymphadenoma. Malignant lymphoma, a fatal disease characterized by the formation in various parts of the body of new growths resembling lymphatic glands in structure.

Having a twin structure. See Twin, a.

Resembling a madreporian coral in form or structure.

Structure, texture, constitution of parts; construction; shape; form. It our perfection of so frail a make As every plot can undermine and shake Dryden. On the make,bent upon making great profits; greedy of gain. [Low, U. S.]

Composition, or structure.

carbonate of copper, usually occurring in green mammillary masses with concentric fibrous structure.

The science which relates to the structure and habits of mollusks.

Ill formation; irregular or anomalous formation; abnormal or wrong conformation or structure.

Having a margin distinct in appearance or structure.

rials used by masons, such as stone, brick, tiles, or the like. Dry masonry is applied to structures made without mortar.

In mass; not necessarily without a crystalline structure, but having no regular form; as, a mineral occurs massive. Massive rock (Geol.), a compact crystalline rock not distinctly schistone, as granite; also, with some authors, an eruptive rock.

(Egyptology) A type of tomb, of the time of the Memphite dynasties, comprising an oblong structure with sloping sides (sometimes containing a decorated chamber, sometimes of solid masonry), and connected with a mummy chamber in the rock beneath.

Having the form, or structure, of a maxilla.

lled or employed in shaping and uniting materials, as wood, metal, etc., into any kind of structure, machine, or other object, requiring the use of tools, or instruments. An art quite lost with our mechanics. Sir T. Browne.

Resembling a medusa in shape or structure.

Like a medusa; having the fundamental structure of a medusa, but without a locomotive disk; -- said of the sessile gonophores of hydroids. -- n.