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One of those Arians who held that the Son was of a different substance from the Father.

flexor tendons of the toes bifid, the branches of one going to the first and second toes; those of the other, to the third and fourth toes. See Illust. in Append.

An abnormal formation foreign to the economy, and composed of elements different from those are found in it in its normal condition. Dunglison.

side of one triangle is parallel to a side of the other, and the six points coincide with those of a hexagon.

inciples and feelings; magnanimous; -- opposed to mean. High-minded, manly recognition of those truths. A. Norton.

lophobranch fishes of several species in which the head and neck have some resemblance to those of a horse; -- called also sea horse.

A systematic, written account of events, particularly of those affecting a nation, institution, science, or art, and usually connected with a philosophical explanation of their causes; a true story, as distinguished from a romance; -- distinguished also from annals, which relate simply the facts and events of each year…

w can they move and hit one against another Locke. Corpuscles, meeting with or hitting on those bodies, become conjoined with them. Woodward.

on the hither and thither side of thirty, the name of Charles Darwin stands alongside of those of Isaac Newton and Michael Faraday. Huxley.

To lay up a store or hoard, as of money. To hoard for those whom he did breed. Spenser.

Those insects which have a complete metamorphosis; metabola.

An artificial division of gastropods, including those that have an entire aperture.

A division of phyllopod Crustacea, including those that are entirely covered by a bivalve shell.

fable; conversable; companionable. [R.] His virtues active, chiefly, and homiletical, not those lazy, sullen ones of the cloister. Atterbury.

Those books of the New Testament which were acknowledged as canonical by the early church; -- distinguished from antilegomena.

n. See Homotypy. -- Special homology (Biol.), the correspondence of a part or organ with those of a different animal, as determined by relative position and connection. Owen.

One of those, in the 4th century, who accepted the Nicene creed, and maintained that the Son had the same essence or substance with the Father; -- opposed to homoiousian.

A title borne by the princes or governors of Moldavia and Wallachia before those countries were united as Roumania.

A plant which aids, shelters, or protects another plant in its growth, as those which are used for nurse crops.

Those who dwell in the same house; a household. One that feared God with all his house. Acts x. 2.