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The passing of a bill into a law; the giving of legislative sanction and executive approval to a bill whereby it is established as a law.

The inner layer of a ripened or fructified ovary.

g a kind of cuticle inside of the proper cortical layer, or surrounding an individual fibrovascular bundle.

The more granular cells, which finally become internal, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals.

An extinct marine reptile from the coal measures of Nova Scotia; -- so named because supposed to be of the earliest known reptiles.

The external or outermost layer of a fructified or ripened ovary. See Illust. under Endocarp.

Adnate to the surface of the ovary, so as to be apparently inserted upon the top of it; -- said of stamens, petals, sepals, and also of the disk.

See Parovarium.

To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm. So were the churches established in the faith. Acts xvi. 5. The best established tempers can scarcely forbear being borne down. Burke. Confidence which must precede union could be established…

Removal of the kernel.

In old writers, the operations concerned in the removal of parts of the body.

The removal, especially of small parts, with a cutting instrument. Dunglison.

The act of expelling; a driving or forcing out; summary removal from membership, association, etc. The expulsion of the Tarquins. Shak.

The removal by operation of a portion of a limb; particularly, the removal of a portion of a bone in the vicinity of a joint; the act or process of cutting out.

The organ of sight or vision. In man, and the vertebrates generally, it is properly the movable ball or globe in the orbit, but the term often includes the adjacent parts. In most invertebrates the years are immovable ocelli, or compound eyes made up of numerous ocelli. See Ocellus. Description of illustration: a b Con…

A small oval porcelain or glass cup, having a rim curved to fit the orbit of the eye. it is used in the application of liquid remedies to eyes; -- called also eyeglass.

The cover of the eye; that portion of movable skin with which an animal covers or uncovers the eyeball at pleasure.

One of the movable peduncles which, in the decapod Crustacea, bear the eyes at the tip.

by, Fallopius; as, the Fallopian tubes or oviducts, the ducts or canals which conduct the ova from the ovaries to the uterus.

Something new-fashioned; a foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.