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Any one of three metameric hydrocarbons, C4H8, of the ethylene series. They are gaseous or easily liquefiable.

The anterior end of the notochord and its bony sheath in the base of cartilaginous crania.

A milky fluid containing the fatty matter of the food in a state of emulsion, or fine mechanical division; formed from chyme by the action of the intestinal juices. It is absorbed by the lacteals, and conveyed into the blood by the thoracic duct.

That does not cloy. Shak.

A bony prominence; particularly, an eminence at the end of a bone bearing a rounded articular surface; -- sometimes applied also to a concave articular surface.

An oily substance, C8H14, obtained from several derivatives of conine.

A cuplike cavity or organ. Same as Acetabulum.

One of the patches of villi found in some forms of placenta.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a cotyledon.

Having a cotyledon; tufted; as, the cotyledonary placenta of the cow.

Of or pertaining to a cotyledon or cotyledons; having a seed lobe.

iquid, C4H6, produced artificially, and regarded as an unsaturated hydrocarbon of the acetylene series, and analogous to crotonic acid.

producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred with an inked roller.

A circular projecting portion.

A dactyl. [Obs.]

Having ten columns in front; -- said of a portico, temple, etc. -- n.

A liquid hydrocarbon, C10H20, of the ethylene series, regarded as a polymeric form of amylene.

See under Intercolumniation.

A plant whose seeds divide into two seed lobes, or cotyledons, in germinating.

Having two cotyledons or seed lobes; as, a dicotyledonous plant.