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hing; a weaving together of parts; structural character of a thing; system; constitution; texture. That wonderful contexture of all created beings. Dryden. He was not of any delicate contexture; his limbs rather sturdy than dainty. Sir H. Wotton.

Formed into texture; woven together; arranged; composed. [R.] Carlyle.

erweaving, or the state of being interwoven; that which is interwoven. "Knit in nice intertexture." Coleridge. Skirted thick with intertexture firm Of thorny boughs. Cowper.

The text of a book. [R.] Herrick.

A thin membrane existing in the pollen grains of some plants, and situated between the extine and the intine, as in .

Inwrought; woven in.

A blundering preacher.

A white robe with a purple border, worn by a Roman boy before he was entitled to wear the toga virilis, or until about the completion of his fourteenth year, and by girls until their marriage. It was also worn by magistrates and priests.

on or motive; pretense; disguise. They suck the blood of those they depend on, under a pretext of service and kindness. L'Estrange. With how much or how little pretext of reason. Dr. H. More.

A pretext. [Obs.]

The act of weaving or forming again. Carlyle.

The Manila-hemp plant (Musa textilis); also, its fiber. See Manila hemp under Manila.

A compact variety or sulphate of lime, or gypsum, of fine texture, and usually white and translucent, but sometimes yellow, red, or gray. It is carved into vases, mantel ornaments, etc.

e of, or resembling, the white of the eye, or of an egg; albuminous; -- a term applied to textures, humors, etc., which are perfectly white.

Without crystallization in the ultimate texture of a solid substance; uncrystallized.

ll is a netlike structure within the oral aperture. The integument is usually leathery in texture. See Illustration in Appendix.

dy; that quality in medicines or other substances which causes contraction of the organic textures; as, the astringency of tannin.

A medicine or other substance that produces contraction in the soft organic textures, and checks discharges of blood, mucus, etc. External astringents are called styptics. Dunglison.

A treatise on, or text-book of, the science. Physical astronomy. See under Physical.

system of land forms produced by the free action of rain and streams on rocks of uniform texture.