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A level; a working.

See Jumping hare, under Hare.

The art of producing photographs in color.

A cutting for the cure or relief of hernia; celotomy.

The anatomy or dissection of reptiles.

cess of fertilization in plants by an indirect or circuitous method; -- opposed to orthogamy.

A division of bivalve shells, including the marine mussels, in which the two adductor muscles are very unequal. See Dreissena, and Illust. under Byssus.

to the law of another; political subjection of a community or state; -- opposed to autonomy.

The unconscious saying, in speech or in writing, of that which one does not intend to say; -- frequently the very reverse of the thought which is present to consciousness. R. G. White.

Pertaining to Himyar, an ancient king of Yemen, in Arabia, or to his successors or people; as, the Himjaritic characters, language, etc.; applied esp. to certain ancient inscriptions showing the primitive type of the oldest form of the Arabic, still spoken in Southern Arabia. Brande & C.

Anatomy of the horse.

The science which treats of the laws relating to organic tissues, their formation, development, functions, etc.

The dissection of organic tissues.

Homology of the germinal layers.

The homology of metameres. See Metamere. Gegenbaur.

The condition of being homogamous.

The homology of parts arranged on transverse axes. Haeckel.

Sameness of name or designation; identity in relations. Holland. Homonymy may be as well in place as in persons. Fuller.

Resemblance between different plants or animals, in external shape, in general habit, or in organs, which is not due to descent from a common ancestor, but to similar surrounding circumstances.

A very diminutive person. [Colloq.] liwell.