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The more granular cells, which finally become internal, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals.

One of the segments of the transverse axis, or the so called homonymous parts; as, for example, one of the several segments of the extremities in vertebrates, or one of the similar segments in plants, such as the segments of a segmented leaf. Syd. Soc. Lex.

A woman who farms.

A lantern, or louver covering, placed on a roof, for ventilation or escape of smoke.

The officer in a religious house who had the care of the infirmary. [Obs.]

One of the half ribs against the walls in a ceiling vaulted with ribs.

See Femerell.

One who works with a hammer.

A homologous or corresponding part or segment.

See Cassimere.

A person subjected to mesmeric influence; one who is mesmerized. [R.]

One of successive or homodynamous parts in animals and plants; one of a series of similar parts that follow one another in a vertebrate or articulate animal, as in an earthworm; a segment; a somite. See Illust. of Loeven's larva.

One of the smaller cells, or blastomeres, resulting from the complete segmentation of a telolecithal ovum.

A decree of the Congregation of the Council declaring invalid [so far as the laws of the Roman Catholic Church are concerned] any marriage of a Roman Catholic, or of a person who has ever been a Roman Catholic, if not contracted before a duty qualified priest (or the bishop of the diocese) and at least two witnesses. T…

A metameric segment of the cerebro-spinal nervous system.

An osteocomma. Owen.

One of the symmetrical halves of any one of the radii, or spheromeres, of a radiate animal, as a starfish.

Having a surface dressed by cutting with a hammer the head of which consists of broad thin chisels clamped together.

One of the several parts composing a rhabdom.

Any one of the several symmetrical segments arranged around the central axis and composing the body of a radiate anmal.