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A plant, like the fungus, which lives on dead or living organic matter. -- Hys`ter*oph"y*tal, a.

of the cell protoplasm which is the seat of all active changes, and which carries on the function of hereditary transmission; -- distinguished from the other portion, which is termed nutritive plasma. See Hygroplasm.

icit confidence; implicit obedience. Back again to implicit faith I fall. Donne. Implicit function. (Math.) See under Function.

in civil acts; to disqualify. It absolutely incapacitated them from holding rank, office, function, or property. Milman.

urn. [Obs.] Twelve Trojan princes wait on thee, and labor to incense Thy glorious heap of funeral. Chapman.

business, the profits of commerce or of occupation, or the interest of money or stock in funds, etc.; revenue; receipts; salary; especially, the annual receipts of a private person, or a corporation, from property; as, a large income. No fields afford So large an income to the village lord. Dryden.

l body, or body politic; to constitute into a corporation recognized by law, with special functions, rights, duties and liabilities; as, to incorporate a bank, a railroad company, a city or town, etc.

more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax; as, the moon increases. Increasing function (Math.), a function whose value increases when that of the variable increases, and decreases when the latter is diminished.

upon another quantity in respect to value or rate of variation; -- said of quantities or functions.

A peculiar covering found in certain fungi.

ease them. We are more industrious than our forefathers, because in the present times the funds destined for the maintenance of industry are much greater in proportion to those which are likely to be employed in the maintenance of idleness, than they were two or three centuries ago. A. Smith.

A stopping or checking of an already present action; a restraining of the function of an organ, or an agent, as a digestive fluid or ferment, etc.; as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes, etc.

n of sense or motion; the nervous influence necessary for the maintenance of life,and the functions of the various organs.

The operation of finding the primitive function which has a given function for its differential coefficient. See Integral.

The office or function of an internuncio. Richardson.

A person who discharges the royal functions during an interregnum. Holland.

An invariable quantity; specifically, a function of the coefficients of one or more forms, which remains unaltered, when these undergo suitable linear transformations. J. J. Sylvester.

ice, etc. That doth invert the attest of eyes and ears, As if these organs had deceptious functions. Shak. Such reasoning falls like an inverted cone, Wanting its proper base to stand upon. Cowper.

The peridium or volva of certain fungi. Called also involucrum.

An officer in the Greek empire having functions corresponding to those of a justice of the peace. [Written also eirenarch.]