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Made up of parts or pieces; single; separate. "These piecemeal guilts." Gov. of Tongue.

Bearing a single slender bristle, or hair.

Any of several clumsy, wingless beetles of the genus Eleodes, found in the Pacific States.

arently intermediate between man and the existing anthropoid apes, known from bones of a single individual found in Java (hence called Java man) in 1891-92. These bones include a thigh bone of the human type, two molar teeth intermediate between those of man and the anthropoids, and the calvaria of the skull, indicatin…

A small-leaved North American tree (Planera aquatica) related to the elm, but having a wingless, nutlike fruit.

d having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though consisting sometimes only of a single leafy expansion, or a series of cellules, or even a single cellule.

claration of the plaintiff, until issue is joined, and the question made to rest on some single point. Blackstone.

An extinct genus of horses from the Pliocene deposits. Each foot had a single toe (or hoof), as in the common horse.

p, as for water, having a plunger, instead of a piston, to act upon the water. It may be single-acting or double- acting

lar fruits. Plurilocular sporangia (Bot.), many-celled sporangia, each cell containing a single spore, as in many algæ.

dle, and the other to an elastic pole above. -- Pole mast (Naut.), a mast formed from a single piece or from a single tree. -- Pole of a lens (Opt.), the point where the principal axis meets the surface. -- Pole plate (Arch.), a horizontal timber resting on the tiebeams of a roof and receiving the ends of the rafter…

ing organisms originate in cells or embryos of different kinds, instead of coming from a single cell; -- opposed to monogenesis.

ertaining to or designating arc lamps so constructed that more than one can be used on a single circuit.

A glass which makes a single object appear as many; a multiplying glass. Hutton.

Having the ends terminating in rounded protuberances or single balls; -- said of a cross.

Mingled or interspersed with poppies. "Poppied corn." Keats.

of an astronomical telescope for measuring angles of position in the field of view. -- Single position (Arith.), the method of solving problems, in which the result obtained by operating with an assumed number is to the true result as the number assumed is to the number required. -- Strategic position (Mil.), a posi…

ican burrowing rodents belonging to Ctenomys and allied genera. The hair is usually intermingled with sharp spines.

ink used in printing books, newspapers, etc. It is composed of lampblack or ivory black mingled with linseed or nut oil, made thick by boiling and burning. Other ingredients are employed for the finer qualities. Ure. -- Printing office, a place where books, pamphlets, or newspapers, etc., are printed. -- Printing pa…

Consisting of individuals united in a body or mass without order; mingled; confused; undistinguished; as, a promiscuous crowd or mass. A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot. Pope.