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Incomplete or faulty development.

Not plastic or easily molded.

A crossbow. See Arbalest.

A hollow blastula, supposed to be the primitive form; a c

The substance from which attraction spheres develop in mitotic cell division, and of which they consist.

ork in which subjects are exhibited in a tabular from or arrangement; as, an historical atlas.

A blasting powder or dynamite composed of nitroglycerin, wood fiber, sodium nitrate, and magnesium carbonate.

Of or pertaining to Australasia; as, Australasian regions. -- n.

Broken in place; -- said of rocks having a broken or brecciated structure due to crushing, in contrast to those of brecciated materials brought from a distance.

Of or pertaining to autoplasty.

The process of artificially repairing lesions by taking a piece of healthy tissue, as from a neighboring part, to supply the deficiency caused by disease or wounds.

The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, resulting from looseness in fitting or from wear; also, the jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.…

A variety of spinel ruby, of a pale rose red, or inclining to orange. See Spinel.

, or helps to maintain, uprightness, steadiness, and security. It [piety] is the right ballast of prosperity. Barrow. Ballast engine, a steam engine used in excavating and for digging and raising stones and gravel for ballast. -- Ship in ballast, a ship carring only ballast.

A toll paid for the privilege of taking up ballast in a port or harbor.

That which is used for steadying anything; ballast.

To plaster over; to cover or smear thickly; to bedaub. Beplastered with rouge. Goldsmith.

Same as Bioplast.

g beings; the material through which every form of life manifests itself; unaltered protoplasm.

Pertaining to, or consisting of, bioplasm.