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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.

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.

The abnormal change of an irregular flower to a regular form; - - considered by evolutionists to be a reversion to an ancestral condition.

One of a group of plectognath fishes (Gymnodontes), having the teeth and jaws consolidated into one or two bony plates, on each jaw, as the diodonts and tetradonts. See Bur fish, Globefish, Diodon.

Dioecious, but having some hermaphrodite or perfect flowers on an individual plant which bears mostly pistillate flowers.

A judge or umpire in games or combats.

Hymns, considered collectively; hymnology.

One who serves images; -- opposed to an iconoclast. Schaff- Herzog Encyc.

A genus of gigantic herbivorous dinosaurs having a birdlike pelvis and large hind legs with three-toed feet capable of supporting the entire body. Its teeth resemble those of the iguana, whence its name. Several species are known, mostly from the Wealden of England and Europe. See Illustration in Appendix.…

Like or pertaining to the genus Iguanodon.

To bind up,as in a knot; to include. [Obs.] Fuller.

To make odious or hateful. [Obs.] South.

Inodorous. [Obs.] Bacon.

Emitting no odor; wthout smell; scentless; odorless. -- In*o"dor*ous*ness, n.

Of or pertaining to internodes; intervening between nodes or joints.

The space between two nodes or points of the stem from which the leaves properly arise. H. Spenser.

Internodal. [R.]

A lymphatic gland.