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The internal parts of a flower, included within the calyx and the corolla. [Obs.] Johnson.

One whose thoughts take the form of mental sounds or of internal discourse rather than of visual or motor images.

Spontaneous or voluntary movement; movement due to an internal cause.

led vehicle suitable for use on a street or roadway. Automobiles are usually propelled by internal combustion engines (using volatile inflammable liquids, as gasoline or petrol, alcohol, naphtha, etc.), steam engines, or electric motors. The power of the driving motor varies from about 4 to 50 H. P. for ordinary vehicl…

spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica. ~= feldspar, a variety of oligoclase with internal firelike reflections due to the presence of minute crystals, probably of hematite; sunstone.

To have or experience a back fire or back fires; -- said of an internal-combustion engine.

ates that no one state is in a position to interfere with the independence of the others; international equilibrium; also, the ability ( of a state or a third party within a state) to control the relations between sovereign states or between dominant parties in a state. -- Balance sheet (Bookkeeping), a paper showing…

An international, interdenominational organization of Bible classes of young men; -- so named in allusion to the Hebrew word Berachah (Meaning blessing) occurring in 2 Chron. xx. 26 and 1 Chron. xii.

ocone, prolonged, on one side, into a delicate concave blade; the thunderstone. It is the internal shell of a cephalopod related to the sepia, and belonging to an extinct family. The belemnites are found in rocks of the Jurassic and Cretaceous ages. -- Bel*em*nit"ic, a.

The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube. The bores of wind instruments. Bacon. Love's counselor should fill the bores of hearing. Shak.

and paralytic symptoms. It is variously explained, most probably as due to congestion of internal organs with subsequent stasis of the blood.

the surface of the earth, as, an elevation or subsidence of some part of it, effected by internal causes. Whewell.

tool with several points, used for cutting or finishing screw threads, either external or internal, on work revolving in a lathe.

stalline substance, obtained by treating chloral with water. It produces sleep when taken internally or hypodermically; -- called also chloral.

To cut off the prepuce of foreskin of, in the case of males, and the internal labia of, in the case of females.

The act of cutting off the prepuce or foreskin of males, or the internal labia of females.

An appendage of the labyrinth of the internal ear, which is elongated and coiled into a spiral in mammals. See Ear.

mella of the ear, the bony or cartilaginous rod connecting the tympanic membrane with the internal ear.

ire become more thoroughly mixed and burnt. (b) The clearance space in the cylinder of an internal combustion engine where the charge is compressed and ignited.

quals; friendly civility; as, comity of manners; the comity of States. Comity of nations (International Law), the courtesy by which nations recognize within their own territory, or in their courts, the peculiar institutions of another nation or the rights and privileges acquired by its citizens in their own land. By so…