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Any parasite which lives on the exterior of animals; -- opposed to endoparasite. -- Ec`to*par`a*sit"ic, a.

Any parasite which lives in the internal organs of an animal, as the tapeworms, Trichina, etc.; -- opposed to ectoparasite. See Entozoön. -- En`do*par`a*sit"ic, a.

ing quality; exceedingly nice; delightfully excellent; giving rare satisfaction; as, exquisite workmanship. Plate of rare device, and jewels Of reach and exquisite form. Shak. I have no exquisite reason for 't, but I have reason good enough. Shak.

In an exquisite manner or degree; as, lace exquisitely wrought. To a sensitive observer there was something exquisitely painful in it. Hawthorne.

Quality of being exquisite.

Like or pertaining to the genus Favosites.

A genus of fossil corals abundant in the Silurian and Devonian rocks, having polygonal cells with perforated walls.

A finegrained rock, flintlike in fracture, consisting essentially of orthoclase feldspar with occasional grains of quartz.

A yellowish white, translucent mineral, consisting of the carbonates of lime and soda, with water.

A hydrate of alumina.

A member of a Scottish sect, founded in the 18th century by John Glass, a minister of the Established Church of Scotland, who taught that justifying faith is "no more than a simple assent to the divine testimone passively recived by the understanding." The English and American adherents of this faith are called Sandema…

A claylike mineral, occurring in soft, smooth, amorphous masses, of a whitish color.

A genus of Silurian fossil corals; the chain corals. See Chain coral, under Chain.

A lead-gray sectile mineral. It is a telluride of silver.

A member or follower of the "liberal" party, headed by Elias Hicks, which, because of a change of views respecting the divinity of Christ and the Atonement, seceded from the conservative portion of the Society of Friends in the United States, in 1827.

A follower of John Huss, the Bohemian reformer, who was adjudged a heretic and burnt alive in 1415.

A hydrous carbonate of magnesia occurring in white, early, amorphous masses.

A twenty-four-sided solid; a tetragonal trisoctahedron or trapezohedron.

Not apposite; not fit or suitable; not pertinent. -- In*ap"po*site*ly, adv.

Not composite; uncompounded; simple. Incomposite numbers. See Prime numbers, under Prime.