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ut in pieces, as an animal vegetable body, for the purpose of displaying or examining the structure and use of the several parts.

cially separating the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection.

on of two or more separate bones to from a single bone; the close union of bones or other structures in various animals.

re angles, used for forming the corners, or connecting or sustaining the sides of an iron structure to which it is riveted. -- Angle leaf (Arch.), a detail in the form of a leaf, more or less conventionalized, used to decorate and sometimes to strengthen an angle. -- Angle meter, an instrument for measuring angles, e…

Without definite structure; as, an anhistous membrane.

Endowed with life; alive; living; animated; lively. The admirable structure of animate bodies. Bentley.

Ring-shaped structures or markings, found in, or upon, various animals.

The science of the structure and functions of the human body.

A structure of bedded rocks in which the beds on both sides of an axis or axial plane dip away from the axis; an anticlinal.

Resembling aphanite; having a very fine-grained structure.

Having or designating conspicuous or warning colors or structures indicative of special means of defense against enemies, as in the skunk.

omlins. Bouvier. Burrill. Globes . . . provided as appurtenances to astronomy. Bacon. The structure of the eye, and of its appurtenances. Reid.

the arch of the aorta. "Colors of the showery arch." Milton. Triumphal arch, a monumental structure resembling an arched gateway, with one or more passages, erected to commemorate a triumph.

The plan or fundamental structure on which a natural group of animals or plants or their systems of organs are assumed to have been constructed; as, the vertebrate archetype.

The arched part of a structure.

science of building; especially, the art of building houses, churches, bridges, and other structures, for the purposes of civil life; -- often called civil architecture. Many other architectures besides Gothic. Ruskin.

Any small space, bounded by some part different in color or structure, as the spaces bounded by the nervures of the wings of insects, or those by the veins of leaves; an areola.

carbonate of lime, having a silvery-white, pearly luster, and a waving or curved lamellar structure.

(Biol.) A structure or appearance in protoplasm due to death or the use of reagents and not present during life.

Having the form or structure of asbestus.