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Designating, pertaining to, or held under, the Spanish system of law (called ganancial system) which controls the title and disposition of the property acquired during marriage by the husband or wife.

Furnished with ganglia; as, the gangliated cords of the sympathetic nervous system.

A node, or gland in the lymphatic system; as, a lymphatic ganglion.

continually being thrown off from every cell or unit, and circulate freely throughout the system, and when supplied with proper nutriment multiply by self-division and ultimately develop into cells like those from which they were derived. They are supposed to be transmitted from the parent to the offspring, but are oft…

The closing subdivision of the Hamilton period in the American Devonian system; -- so called because the formations of this period crop out in Genesee, New York.

ral mode of production or development. This historical, genetical method of viewing prior systems of philosophy. Hare.

euroglia or connective tissue of the brain, spinal cord, or other portions of the nervous system.

A system of phonetic spelling based upon the present values of English letters, but invariably using one symbol to represent one sound only. Ingglish Glosik konvaiA. J. Ellis.

tianity, who claimed a true philosophical interpretation of the Christian religion. Their system combined Oriental theology and Greek philosophy with the doctrines of Christianity. They held that all natures, intelligible, intellectual, and material, are derived from the Deity by successive emanations, which they calle…

The system of philosophy taught by the Gnostics.

Any system of religious doctrine; sometimes, any system of political doctrine or social philosophy; as, this political gospel. Burke.

The mode of governing; the system of polity in a state; the established form of law. That free government which we have so dearly purchased, free commonwealth. Milton.

One who follows the dietetic system of Graham. [U. S.]

The unit of the English system of weights; -- so called because considered equal to the average of grains taken from the middle of the ears of wheat. 7,000 grains constitute the pound avoirdupois, and 5,760 grains the pound troy. A grain is equal to .0648 gram. See Gram.

The unit of weight in the metric system. It was intended to be exactly, and is very nearly, equivalent to the weight in a vacuum of one cubic centimeter of pure water at its maximum density. It is equal to 15.432 grains. See Grain, n., 4. Gram degree, or Gramme degree (Physics), a unit of heat, being the amount of heat…

In the American system of graded common schools an intermediate grade between the primary school and the high school, in which the principles of English grammar are taught.

phonautograph etched in some solid material. Reproduction is accomplished by means of a system attached to an elastic diaphragm.

oney of account of Germany, worth about two cents. It is not included in the new monetary system of the empire.

A system of excavating by means of gullets or channels.

A class of plants in the Linnaean system, whose stamens grow out of, or are united with, the pistil.