Search the Dictionary

of the body. A central cavity is commonly developed, and the cells around it are at first arranged in two layers, -- the ectoderm and endoderm. The group comprises nearly all animals except the Protozoa.

Rhythmical arrangement of syllables or words into verses, stanzas, strophes, etc.; poetical measure, depending on number, quantity, and accent of syllables; rhythm; measure; verse; also, any specific rhythmical arrangements; as, the Horatian meters; a dactylic meter. The only strict antithesis to prose is meter. Wordsw…

Orderly arrangement, elucidation, development, or classification; clear and lucid exhibition; systematic arrangement peculiar to an individual. Though this be madness, yet there's method in it. Shak. All method is a rational progress, a progress toward an end. Sir W. Hamilton.

Arranged with regard to method; disposed in a suitable manner, or in a manner to illustrate a subject, or to facilitate practical observation; as, the methodical arrangement of arguments; a methodical treatise. "Methodical regularity." Addison.

To reduce to method; to dispose in due order; to arrange in a convenient manner; as, to methodize one's work or thoughts. Spectator.

The science of method or arrangement; a treatise on method. Coleridge.

Of or pertaining to the meter; arranged in meter; consisting of verses; as, metrical compositions.

A spectroscope arranged for attachment to a microscope, for observation of the spectrum of light from minute portions of any substance.

A tasimeter, especially when arranged for measuring very small extensions. See Tasimeter.

Wrong adjustment; unsuitable arrangement.

Harm; damage; esp., disarrangement of order; trouble or vexation caused by human agency or by some living being, intentionally or not; often, calamity, mishap; trivial evil caused by thoughtlessness, or in sport. Chaucer. Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs. Ps. lii. 2. The practice whereof shall, I hope, secure me from many…

A breech-loading machine gun consisting of a number of barrels fitted together, so arranged that the barrels can be fired simultaneously, or successively, and rapidly.

and treated as entities; more generally, condition, or state of being; manner or form of arrangement or manifestation; form, as opposed to matter. Modes I call such complex ideas, which, however compounded, contain not in them the supposition of subsisting by themselves, but are considered as dependencies on, or affec…

A mechamical arrangement for regulating motion in a machine, or producing equality of effect.

nd sometimes, less ornamented, in the Ionic and other orders; -- so called because of its arrangement at regulated distances.

Of or pertaining to mode, modulation, module, or modius; as, modular arrangement; modular accent; modular measure.

The arrangement of, or mode of expressing, the terms of a contract or conveyance.

Mode, or manner, of living; hence, a temporary arrangement of affairs until disputed matters can be settled.

Arranged in a single row on one side of an axis, as the flowers in grasses of the tribe Chloridæ.

Having parts, as leaves, arranged in many vertical rows.