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"Inexorable equality of laws." Gibbon. "Death's inexorable doom." Dryden. You are more inhuman, more inexorable, O, ten times more than tigers of Hyrcania. Shak.

nius, are envy, avarice, superstition, love, with the like cares and passions that infest human life. Addison. And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. Longfellow.

igious. Infinite riches in a little room. Marlowe. Which infinite calamity shall cause To human life. Milton.

ming new combinations; ingeniousness; skill in devising or combining. All the means which human ingenuity has contrived. Blair.

Want of force or effect; unimportance; pettiness; inefficacy; as, the insignificance of human art.

The arched middle portion of the human foot next in front of the ankle joint.

on of instruments; means; agency. Otherwise we have no sufficient instrumentation for our human use or handling of so great a fact. H. Bushnell.

one element remains intact, unchanged, -- the everlasting basis of our common nature, the human soul. F. W. Robertson.

The part or faculty of the human soul by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; sometimes, the capacity for higher forms of knowledge, as distinguished from the power to perceive objects in their relations; the power to judge and comprehend; the thinking faculty; the understanding.…

ike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs; -- sometimes said of a human being, but usually of a horse; as, the horse interferes.

The bowels; entrails; viscera. Large intestine (Human Anat. & Med.), the lower portion of the bowel, terminating at the anus. It is adapted for the retention of fecal matter, being shorter, broader, and less convoluted than the small intestine; it consists of three parts, the cæcum, colon, and rectum. -- Small intesti…

Not enduring; not able to endure. The powers of human bodies being limited and intolerant of excesses. Arbuthnot.

That which is inverse. Thus the course of human study is the inverse of the course of things in nature. Tatham.

e arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect. De Quincey.

A peculiarity in the design of bas-relief by which the heads of human figures are kept at the same height from the ground, whether the personages are seated, standing, or mounted on horseback; -- called also isokephaleia.

t (Zoöl.), a small parasitic mite (Sarcoptes scabei) which burrows and breeds beneath the human skin, thus causing the disease known as the itch. See Illust. in Append. -- Itch mite. (Zoöl.) Same as Itch insect, above. Also, other similar mites affecting the lower animals, as the horse and ox. -- Sugar baker's itch,…

(b) A lantern made of a pumpkin so prepared as to show in illumination the features of a human face, etc. -- Yellow Jack (Naut.), the yellow fever; also, the quarantine flag. See Yellow flag, under Flag.

species of fungus (Hirneola Auricula-Judæ, or Auricula), bearing some resemblance to the human ear.

es knowledge and skill to brute strength, and demands an extensive practical knowledge of human anatomy.

rectitude in all things; strict performance of moral obligations; practical conformity to human or divine law; integrity in the dealings of men with each other; rectitude; equity; uprightness. Justice and judgment are the haditation of thy throne. Ps. ixxxix. 11. The king-becoming graces, As justice, verity, temperance…