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Fig.: Material for any structure. Such dispositions are the very errors of human nature; and yet they are the fittest timber to make politics of. Bacon.

as, to sew, knit, or fasten two things together; to mix things together. The king joined humanity and policy together. Bacon.

A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave; a sepulcher. As one dead in the bottom of a tomb. Shak.

The power of articulate utterance; speech. Parrots imitating human tongue. Dryden.

The human body, as distinguished from the head and limbs; in sculpture, the trunk of a statue, mutilated of head and limbs; as, the torso of Hercules.

The whole sum; the whole quantity or amount; the entirety; as, the totalityof human knowledge. Buckle. The totality of a sentence or passage. Coleridge.

The doctrine that human souls are produced by the act of generation; -- opposed to creationism, and infusionism.

A fatal and mournful event; any event in which human lives are lost by human violence, more especially by unauthorized violence.

Transcending, or reaching beyond, the limits of human knowledge; -- applied to affirmations and speculations concerning what lies beyond the reach of the human intellect.

g to that which can be determined a priori in regard to the fundamental principles of all human knowledge. What is transcendental, therefore, transcends empiricism; but is does not transcend all human knowledge, or become transcendent. It simply signifies the a priori or necessary conditions of experience which, though…

ing, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.

, from one to another. Itself a sun, it with transmissive light Enlivens worlds denied to human sight. Prior.

three branches, usually curved, radiating from a center, as the figure composed of three human legs, with bent knees, which has long been used as a badge or symbol of Sicily and of the Isle of Man.

hout the aid of keys or pistons, and which can slide from note to note as smoothly as the human voice or a violin. Softly blown, it has a rich and mellow sound, which becomes harsh and blatant when the tones are forced; used with discretion, its effect is often solemn and majestic.

The foot of an animal, especially that of a sheep; also, humorously, the human foot.

a birth; -- used chiefly in the plural, and applied to the young of beasts as well as to human young.

To wind into; to insinuate; -- used reflexively; as, avarice twists itself into all human concerns.

sonable services, imposes burdens and hardships on those under his control, which law and humanity do not authorize, or which the purposes of government do not require; a cruel master; an oppressor. "This false tyrant, this Nero." Chaucer. Love, to a yielding heart, is a king, but to a resisting, is a tyrant. Sir P. Si…

One of a class of fabled female water spirits who might receive a human soul by intermarrying with a mortal.

To deprive of flesh; to reduce a skeleton. "Unfleshed humanity." Wordsworth.