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armor of armadillos and many reptiles, and the shells or hardened integument of numerous invertebrates; external skeleton; dermoskeleton.

vable ball or globe in the orbit, but the term often includes the adjacent parts. In most invertebrates the years are immovable ocelli, or compound eyes made up of numerous ocelli. See Ocellus. Description of illustration: a b Conjunctiva; c Cornea; d Sclerotic; e Choroid; f Cillary Muscle; g Cillary Process; h Iris; i…

A simple visual organ found in many invertebrates, consisting of pigment cells covering a sensory nerve termination.

A kind of mirage by which distant objects appear inverted, distorted, displaced, or multiplied. It is noticed particularly at the Straits of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily.

constructions, as from forth, from out, etc., the ordinary and more obvious arrangment is inverted, the sense being more distinctly forth from, out from -- from being virtually the governing preposition, and the word the adverb. See From off, under Off, adv., and From afar, under Afar, adv. Sudden partings such as pres…

A vessel of the shape of an inverted hollow cone, terminating below in a pipe, and used for conveying liquids into a close vessel; a tunnel.

A thick muscular stomach found in many invertebrate animals.

One the above-mentioned filaments, consisting, in invertebrate animals, of a long, tubular part which is free and flexible, and a bulbous root imbedded in the skin. Then read he me how Sampson lost his hairs. Chaucer. And draweth new delights with hoary hairs. Spenser.

Turned half round; half inverted.

Half turned round; half inverted; (Crystallog.) having a twinned structure.

distinct individuals. In the animal kingdom true hermaphrodites are found only among the invertebrates. See Illust. in Appendix, under Helminths.

Having the ganglia of the nervous system unsymmetrically arranged; -- said of certain invertebrate animals.

Having the ganglia of the nervous system symmetrically arranged, as in certain invertebrates; -- opposed to heterogangliate.

ibution of water in the cylinders of hydraulic elevators, cranes, etc. (b) (Gas Works) An inverted cup with a partition dipping into water, for opening or closing communication between two gas mains, the open ends of which protrude about the water.

Of or pertaining to an hyperbaton; transposed; inverted.

A figurative construction, changing or inverting the natural order of words or clauses; as, "echoed the hills" for "the hills echoed." With a violent hyperbaton to transpose the text. Milton.

ar layer which lies beneath the chitinous cuticle of arthropods, annelids, and some other invertebrates.

A figure by which the ordinary course of thought is inverted in expression, and the last put first; -- called also hysteron proteron.

ny small crustacean. In a wider sense, the word is often loosely applied to various small invertebrates.

Opposite in order, relation, or effect; reversed; inverted; reciprocal; -- opposed to direct.