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A musical idea, or motive, rhythmically developed in consecutive single tones, so as to form a symmetrical and balanced whole, which may be sung by a single voice to the stanzas of a hymn or song, or even to plain prose, or played upon an instrument; a melody; a tune; an aria.

The process of becoming white, or developing white patches, or streaks.

to become alkaline; or the state of a substance in which alkaline properties begin to be developed, or to predominant. Ure.

The division of Vertebrata in which the embryo develops an allantois. It includes reptiles, birds, and mammals.

A salt of a diamino phenol, C6H3(OH)(NH2)2, used as a developer.

That group of vertebrates which develops in its embryonic life the envelope called the amnion. It comprises the reptiles, the birds, and the mammals.

A microörganism (Bacillus amylobacter) which develops in vegetable tissue during putrefaction. Sternberg.

Without, or not developing, an allantois.

The division of Vertebrata in which no allantois is developed. It includes amphibians, fishes, and lower forms.

Without, or not developing, an amnion.

A morbid or monstrous development, or change of form, or degeneration.

Having the ovule inverted at an early period in its development, so that the chalaza is as the apparent apex; -- opposed to orthotropous. Gray.

d. Animal magnetism. See Magnetism and Mesmerism. -- Animal electricity, the electricity developed in some animals, as the electric eel, torpedo, etc. -- Animal flower (Zoöl.), a name given to certain marine animals resembling a flower, as any species of actinia or sea anemone, and other Anthozoa, hydroids, starfishe…

The doctrine, taught by Stahl, that the soul is the proper principle of life and development in the body.

gastropods, including those having spiral shells. The two sides of the body are unequally developed.

The stipe when developed into an internode between calyx and corolla, as in the Pink family. Gray.

The science or study of human generation, or the origin and development of man.

The science of the laws of the development of the human organism in relation to other organisms and to environment. -- An`thro*po*nom"ic*al (#), a.

variousantibodies, and the introduction of toxins or of foreign cells also results in the development of their specific antibodies.

Incomplete or faulty development.