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Proving indirectly, by showing the absurdity, or impossibility of the contrary. Bp. Berkeley.

the sun. To live on terms of civility, and even of apparent friendship. Macaulay. What Berkeley calls visible magnitude was by astronomers called apparent magnitude. Reid. Apparent horizon, the circle which in a level plain bounds our view, and is formed by the apparent meeting of the earth and heavens, as distinguishe…

Hidden; secret. [Obs.] "The arcane part of divine wisdom." Berkeley.

United by, or provided with, articulations; jointed; as, an articulated skeleton.

A joint or juncture between bones in the skeleton.

ich, articulates; as: (a) One who enunciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering.

To render atheistic or godless. [R.] They endeavored to atheize one another. Berkeley.

A skeleton. [Ludicrous] Shak.

Belonging to the axis of the body; as, the axial skeleton; or to the axis of any appendage or organ; as, the axial bones. Axial line (Magnetism), the line taken by the magnetic force in passing from one pole of a horseshoe magnet to the other. Faraday.

A smokeless powder containing equal parts of soluble nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin.

The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone.

The framework or skeleton upon which a regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff. [Written also cader.]

A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, as a ball valve.

ar ligament (Anat.), a ligamentous bag or capsule surrounding many movable joints in the skeleton.

The abandoned and decaying remains of some bulky and once comely thing, as a ship; the skeleton, or the uncovered or unfinished frame, of a thing. A rotten carcass of a boat. Shak.

Having the skeleton in the state of cartilage, the bones containing little or no calcareous matter; said of certain fishes, as the sturgeon and the sharks.

An order of sponges in which the skeleton consists of horny fibers. It includes all the commercial sponges.

hem by chicane. Burke. To cut short this, I propound it fairly to your own canscience. Berkeley.

f ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so called on account of their cartilaginous skeleton.

Having a cartilaginous skeleton. -- n.