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ubstance contained in the shell of a nut; hence, anything included in a shell, husk, or integument; as, the kernel of a nut. See Illust. of Endocarp. ' A were as good crack a fusty nut with no kernel Shak.

The folds of integument at the opening of the vulva.

Having lobes; -- said of the tails of certain fishes having the integument continued to the bases of the fin rays.

The fold of integument, usually supported by bony plates, which protects the gills of most fishes and some amphibians; the gill cover; the gill lid.

One of the numerous small hollow processes of the integument between the plates of starfishes.

In bats, an expansion of the integument uniting the fore limb with the body and extending between the elongated fingers to form the wing; in birds, the similar fold of integument uniting the fore limb with the body.

The outer, hardened integument which covers most hydroids.

The entire covering of an invertebrate animal, as echinoderm or coelenterate; the integument.

That part of the integument of an insect which surrounds the spiracles.

The outermost of the two integuments of an ovule.

One of the peculiar rodlike corpuscles found in the integument of certain Turbellaria. They are filled with a soft granular substance.

To deprive of the pulp, or integument. The other mode is to pulp the coffee immediately as it comes from the tree. By a simple machine a man will pulp a bushel in a minute. B. Edwards.

A supposed fourth integument of an ovule, counting from the outside.

The embryonic sac of an ovule, sometimes regarded as an innermost fifth integument. Cf. Quartine, and Tercine.

A fleshy covering of a seed, lying between the external and internal integuments.

That part of the integument of the head which is usually covered with hair. By the bare scalp of Robin Hodd's fat friar, This fellow were a king for our wild faction! Shak.

Hardened, or bony, integument of various animals.

Having the integument, or skin, hard, or covered with hard plates.

The hard integument of Crustacea.

The second coat, or integument, of an ovule, lying within the primine.