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A hard substance, somewhat like bone, which is sometimes deposited within the pulp cavity of teeth.

A thief from without or abroad, taken within a lord's fee or liberty.

ial; the exterior. There may be great need of an outside where there is little or nothing within. South. Created beings see nothing but our outside. Addison.

External form; exterior. [R.] So fair an outward and such stuff within. Shak.

The all-containing soul. [R.] That unity, that oversout, within which every man's particular being is contained and made one with all other. Emerson.

sitor fitted to pierce the eggs or larvæ of other insects, in order to lay their own eggs within the same.

Oviparous, but hatching the egg while it is within the body, as some fishes and reptiles.

The rudiment of a seed. It grows from a placenta, and consists of a soft nucleus within two delicate coatings. The attached base of the ovule is the hilum, the coatings are united with the nucleus at the chalaza, and their minute orifice is the foramen.

impetus which caused the unfolding of the egg, in which all generations were inclosed one within the other. Also called ovist.

and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into; as, to pack a trunk; the play, or the audience, packs the theater.

See under Car. -- Palace court, a court having jurisdiction of personal actions arising within twelve miles of the palace at Whitehall. The court was abolished in 1849. [Eng.] Mozley & W.

One invested with royal privileges and rights within his domains; a count palatine. See Count palatine, under 4th Count.

That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a fence; a palisade. "Within one pale or hedge." Robynson (More's Utopia).

ales, in general; a fence formed with pales or pickets; a limit; an inclosure. They moved within the paling of order and decorum. De Quincey.

One of the openings in a slashed garment, showing the bright colored silk, or the like, within; hence, the piece of colored or other stuff so shown.

An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc.

A plant living on or within an animal, and supported at its expense, as many species of fungi of the genus Torrubia.

The matter contained within brackets.

d to, a sentence which would be grammatically complete without it. It is usually inclosed within curved lines (see def. 2 below), or dashes. "Seldom mentioned without a derogatory parenthesis." Sir T. Browne. Don't suffer every occasional thought to carry you away into a long parenthesis. Watts.

To make a parenthesis of; to include within parenthetical marks. Lowell.