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Having the ganglia of the nervous system symmetrically arranged, as in certain invertebrates; -- opposed to heterogangliate.

A collection of specimens of plants, dried and preserved, and arranged systematically; an herbarium.

To crowd (things) together to mingle confusedly; to assemble without order or system. Our adversary, huddling several suppositions together, . . . makes a medley and confusion. Locke.

distinctive tenet of the humanitarians in denying the divinity of Christ; also, the whole system of doctrine based upon this view of Christ.

inson of Yorkshire, England, who believed that the Hebrew Scriptures contained a complete system of natural science and of theology.

ip, for passing the gas through water in order to remove ammonia. -- Hydraulic mining, a system of mining in which the force of a jet of water is used to wash down a bank of gold-bearing gravel or earth. [Pacific Coast] -- Hydraulic press, a hydrostatic press. See under Hydrostatic. -- Hydraulic propeller, a device f…

A system of treating disease by baths and mineral waters.

science which treats of the preservation of health, esp. of households and communities; a system of principles or rules designated for the promotion of health.

. A suffix used in forming the names of certain sciences, systems, etc., as acoustics, mathematics, dynamics, statistics, politics, athletics.

The system or theory that denies the existence of material bodies, and teaches that we have no rational grounds to believe in the reality of anything but ideas and their relations.

atter and mind, and subject and object, are identical in the Absolute; -- called also the system or doctrine of identity.

The system of writing in ideographic characters; also, anything so written.

sequently greatly revised and extended by a permanent committee or "Academy." It combines systematically the advantages of previous schemes with a thoroughly logical word formation, and has neither accented constants nor arbitrarily coined pronominal words. For each idea that root is selected which is already most inte…

essels projected in, not merely on, that membrane. -- Virtual image (Optics), a point or system of points, on one side of a mirror or lens, which, if it existed, would emit the system of rays which actually exists on the other side of the mirror or lens. Clerk Maxwell.

to mind and ideas in a mind; any doctrine opposed to materialism or phenomenalism, esp. a system that maintains the immateriality of the soul; idealism; esp., Bishop Berkeley's theory of idealism.

greatness. Lost in the wilds of vast immensity. Blackmore. The immensity of the material system. I. Taylor.

Not methodical; without method or systematic arrangement; without order or regularity; confused. Addison.

Without method; confusedly; unsystematically.

ning or initiation of any movement, course of action, etc.; as, the inauguration of a new system, a new condition, etc.

so sometimes called a prime ('), composed of twelve seconds ('\'b7), as in the duodecimal system of arithmetic. 12 seconds ('\'b7) make 1 inch or prime. 12 inches or primes (') make 1 foot. B. Greenleaf.