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Very imperfectly developed; in an early stage of development; embryonic.

To have growth or development; as, boys and girls run up rapidly. if the richness of the ground cause turnips to run to leaves. Mortimer.

Having a peculiar pouch developed near the front edge of the wing; -- said of certain bats of the genus Saccopteryx.

floating on the top, is skimmed off; -- called also glass gall. [Formerly written also sandever.]

ow restricted to a variety of malignant growth made up of cells resembling those of fetal development without any proper intercellular substance.

A secondary mouth fold developed at the base of each of the armlike lobes of the manubrium of many rhizostome medusæ. See Illustration in Appendix.

That part of the skeleton which is developed in tendons, ligaments, and aponeuroses.

of the lymphatic glands, particularly those of the neck, and marked by a tendency to the development of chronic intractable inflammations of the skin, mucous membrane, bones, joints, and other parts, and by a diminution in the power of resistance to disease or injury and the capacity for recovery. Scrofula is now gene…

of the original rocks mass; also of characters of minerals (as secondary cleavage, etc.) developed by pressure or other causes.

to a mass of cells (mulberry mass, or morula), all equal and similar, from the growth and development of which the future animal is to be formed. This constitutes regular segmentation. Quite frequently, however, the equality and regularity of cleavage is interfered with by the presence of food yolk, from which results…

Evolution of one's self; development by inherent quality or power.

The science of meanings or sense development (of words); the explanation of the development and changes of the meanings of words. --Se*ma`si*o*log"ic*al (#), a.

Having the faculty of speech but imperfectly developed or partially lost.

the relation of seed, source, or first principle; holding the first place in a series of developed results or consequents; germinal; radical; primary; original; as, seminal principles of generation; seminal virtue. The idea of God is, beyond all question or comparison, the one great seminal principle. Hare. Seminal le…

Having or observing logical sequence; logically consistent and rigorous; consecutive in development or transition of thought. The scheme of pantheistic omniscience so prevalent among the sequacious thinkers of the day. Sir W. Hamilton. Milton was not an extensive or discursive thinker, as Shakespeare was; for the motio…

ce of scabious. -- Sheep pox (Med.), a contagious disease of sheep, characterixed by the development of vesicles or pocks upon the skin. -- Sheep scabious. (Bot.) Same as Sheep's bit. -- Sheep shears, shears in which the blades form the two ends of a steel bow, by the elasticity of which they open as often as presse…

One of a breed of large, heavy domestic cattle having short horns. The breed was developed in England.

e earliest of the Paleozoic eras, and also to the strata of the era, because most plainly developed in that country.

One, not being a Slav, who is interested in the development and prosperity of that race.

rade work. The sloyd system derives its name from the fact that it was adopted or largely developed from a similar Swedish system, in which wood carving was a chief feature. Its purpose is not only to afford practical skill in some trade, but also to develop the pupils mentally and physically.