Search the Dictionary

The soft, spongy wood of a species of Magnolia (M. Umbrella).

One of a tribe of tortoises, including the terrapins, etc., in which the head and neck can be withdrawn.

One who embodies.

The act of embodying; the state of being embodied.

To form into a body; to invest with a body; to collect into a body, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate; as, to embody one's ideas in a treatise. [Written also imbody.] Devils embodied and disembodied. Sir W. Scott. The soul, while it is embodied, can no more be divided from sin. South.

Hemorrhoids; piles; tumors; boils. [R.] Deut. xxviii. 27.

egarded as a derivative of anthraquinone; -- so called from a species of rhubarb (Rheum emodei).

See Emerods. [Obs.]

See Enarthrosis. -- En`ar*thro"di*al, a.

A genus of extinct Cretaceous fishes; -- so named from their spear-shaped teeth. They were allied to the pike (Esox).

The innermost layer of the blastoderm and the structures derived from it; the hypoblast; the entoblast. See Illust. of Ectoderm.

Of or pertaining to the endoderm.

A layer of cells forming a kind of cuticle inside of the proper cortical layer, or surrounding an individual fibrovascular bundle.

The internal or principal branch of the locomotive appendages of Crustacea. See Maxilliped.

Without a node. Gray.

The act or operation of clearing of knots, or of untying; hence, also, the solution of a difficulty. [R.] Bailey.

To clear of knots; to make clear. [Obs.] Cockeram.

See Endoderm, and Illust. of Blastoderm.

Relating to the entoderm.

A figure of speech in which the parts of a sentence or clause are repeated in inverse order, as in the following: -- O more exceeding love, or law more just Just law, indeed, but more exceeding love! Milton.