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A brief expression, sometimes a single word, but usually two or more words forming an expression by themselves, or being a portion of a sentence; as, an adverbial phrase. "Convey" the wise it call. "Steal!" foh! a fico for the phrase. Shak.

One of the parts which by their repetition make up a flowering plant, each being a single joint of a stem with its leaf or leaves; a phytomer.

nceived of as apart from other things of the same kind; an individual article; a distinct single effort of a series; a definite performance; especially:

Made up of parts or pieces; single; separate. "These piecemeal guilts." Gov. of Tongue.

Bearing a single slender bristle, or hair.

parently intermediate between man and the existing anthropoid apes, known from bones of a single individual found in Java (hence called Java man) in 1891-92. These bones include a thigh bone of the human type, two molar teeth intermediate between those of man and the anthropoids, and the calvaria of the skull, indicati…

nd having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though consisting sometimes only of a single leafy expansion, or a series of cellules, or even a single cellule.

eclaration of the plaintiff, until issue is joined, and the question made to rest on some single point. Blackstone.

An extinct genus of horses from the Pliocene deposits. Each foot had a single toe (or hoof), as in the common horse.

mp, as for water, having a plunger, instead of a piston, to act upon the water. It may be single-acting or double- acting

ular fruits. Plurilocular sporangia (Bot.), many-celled sporangia, each cell containing a single spore, as in many algæ.

adle, and the other to an elastic pole above. -- Pole mast (Naut.), a mast formed from a single piece or from a single tree. -- Pole of a lens (Opt.), the point where the principal axis meets the surface. -- Pole plate (Arch.), a horizontal timber resting on the tiebeams of a roof and receiving the ends of the rafte…

ving organisms originate in cells or embryos of different kinds, instead of coming from a single cell; -- opposed to monogenesis.

Pertaining to or designating arc lamps so constructed that more than one can be used on a single circuit.

A glass which makes a single object appear as many; a multiplying glass. Hutton.

Having the ends terminating in rounded protuberances or single balls; -- said of a cross.

e of an astronomical telescope for measuring angles of position in the field of view. -- Single position (Arith.), the method of solving problems, in which the result obtained by operating with an assumed number is to the true result as the number assumed is to the number required. -- Strategic position (Mil.), a pos…

ividually; privately. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor. -- Proper flower or corolla (Bot.), one of the single florets, or corollets, in an aggregate or compound flower. -- Proper fraction (Arith.) a fraction in which the numerator is less than the denominator. -- Proper nectary (Bot.), a nectary separate from the petals and other…

A single zooid of a compound protozoan.

A genus of trees with perigynous rosaceous flowers, and a single two-ovuled carpel which usually becomes a drupe in ripening.