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The leaves of a flower generally, especially when the calyx and corolla are not readily distinguished.

In a narrower, judicial sense: Accident or casus, as distinguished from dolus and culpa, and hence relieving one from the duty of performing an obligation.

A complete musical sentence. The period, the present or current time, as distinguished from all other times.

A notable or distinguished person; a conspicious or peculiar character; as, an illustrious personage; a comely personage of stature tall. Spenser.

Personal property, as distinguished from realty or real property.

The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.

ce on which the objects are delineated, or the picture drawn; the plane of projection; -- distinguished from the ground plane, which is that on which the objects are represented as standing. When this plane is oblique to the principal face of the object, the perspective is called oblique perspective; when parallel to t…

er owed duty or subjection, as one's husband, master, mistress, etc. The crime is now not distinguished from murder.

w), a suit in which the mere title to property is litigated and sought to be enforced, as distinguished from a possessory suit; also (Scots Law), a suit wherein the plaintiff claims something as due him by the defendant. Burrill.

Any body of troops or men formed in close array, or any combination of people distinguished for firmness and solidity of a union. At present they formed a united phalanx. Macaulay. The sheep recumbent, and the sheep that grazed, All huddling into phalanx, stood and gazed. Cowper.

ortion of fibrovascular bundles which corresponds to the inner bark; the liber tissue; -- distinguished from xylem.

physiology. Mental physiology, the science of the functions and phenomena of the mind, as distinguished from a philosophical explanation of the same.

One of the superior men, distinguished from a pawn.

Hard and fine stones in general, such as are used for inlay and the like, as distinguished from the softer stones used in building; thus, a Florentine mosaic is a familiar instance of work in pietra dura, though the ground may be soft marble.

of seams by simple and common stitches, in distinct from fancy work, embroidery, etc.; -- distinguished also from designing and fitting garments. -- Plain song. (a) The Gregorian chant, or canto fermo; the prescribed melody of the Roman Catholic service, sung in unison, in tones of equal length, and rarely extending b…

body which revolves about the sun in an orbit of a moderate degree of eccentricity. It is distinguished from a comet by the absence of a coma, and by having a less eccentric orbit. See Solar system.

The mensuration of plane surfaces; -- distinguished from stereometry, or the mensuration of volumes.

party in support of his cause; in a stricter sense, an allegation of fact in a cause, as distinguished from a demurrer; in a still more limited sense, and in modern practice, the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's declaration and demand. That which the plaintiff alleges in his declaration is answered and repelled o…

y of ancient Rome who were citizens without the usual political rights; the plebeians; -- distinguished from the patricians.

More, required to be added; positive, as distinguished from negative; -- opposed to Ant: minus.