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Crescent-shaped. "Crescentic lobes." R. Owen.

An appendage of the vestibular ear sac of fishes. Owen.

Delirious. [Obs.] Owen.

th dermal and neural structures; as, the dermoneural spines or dorsal fin rays of fishes. Owen.

. Peile. All insects . . . acquire the jointed legs before the wings are fully developed. Owen.

nger or toe. The ruminants have the "cloven foot," i. e., two hoofed digits on each foot. Owen.

free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden. Owen. I have disencumbered myself from rhyme. Dryden.

Arising from the centrum of a vertebra. Owen.

Epidermoid. Owen.

Arising from the pleurapophysis of a vertebra. Owen.

Growing from previously ossified parts; -- opposed to autogenous. Owen. Exogenous aneurism (Med.), an aneurism which is produced by causes acting from without, as from injury.

Suited for, or capable of, extension; extensible. Owen.

los. It was as large as an ox, was covered with tessellated scales, and had fluted teeth. Owen.

second element in each half of a hemal arch, corresponding to the sternal part of a rib. Owen. -- Hem`a*po*phys"i*al, a.

single part, bears to the fundamental or general type on which the group is constituted. Owen. -- Serial homology (Biol.), representative or repetitive relation in the segments of the same organism, -- as in the lobster, where the parts follow each other in a straight line or series. Owen. See Homotypy. -- Special h…

he right arm is the homotype of the right leg; one arm is the homotype of the other, etc. Owen.

An oval lobe beneath each of the optic lobes in many fishes; one of the inferior lobes. Owen.

by greatness, nobleness, etc.; eminent; conspicuous; distinguished. Illustrious earls, renowened everywhere. Drayton.

Introduced or inserted among others; additional; supernumerary. "Intercalary spines." Owen. This intercalary line . . . is made the last of a triplet. Beattie. Intercalary day (Med.), one on which no paroxysm of an intermittent disease occurs. Mayne.

Mutual communication. Owen.