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Upon or from one side only; one-sided; partial; as, an ex parte statement. Ex parte application, one made without notice or opportunity to oppose. -- Ex parte council, one that assembles at the request of only one of the parties in dispute. -- Ex parte hearing or evidence (Law), that which is had or taken by one side…

Beyond the limits of a parish. -- Ex`tra*pa*ro"chi*al*ly, adv.

A name given to a group of minerals, closely related in crystalline form, and all silicates of alumina with either potash, soda, lime, or, in one case, baryta. They occur in crystals and crystalline masses, vitreous in luster, and breaking rather easily in two directions at right angles to each other, or nearly so. The…

See Feldspar.

Animals which reproduce by fission.

Reproduction by spontaneous fission.

Quality of being fissiparous; fissiparism.

Reproducing by spontaneous fission. See Fission. -- Fis*sip"a*rous*ly, adv.

See Fluorite.

The part most advanced, or first in time or in place; the beginning.

Animals which increase by budding, as hydroids.

Reproduction by budding; gemmation. See Budding.

Producing buds; reproducing by buds. See Gemmation, 1.

Reproduction by means of germs.

The cheetah.

Native barium sulphate or barite, -- so called because of its high specific gravity as compared with other non-metallic minerals.

alkalies (esp. potassium), and consists essentially of alkaline sulphides. Called also hepar sulphuris (.

An extinct genus of Tertiary mammals allied to the horse, but three-toed, having on each foot a small lateral hoof on each side of the main central one. It is believed to be one of the ancestral genera of the Horse family.

Situated below an artery; applied esp. to the branches of the bronchi given off below the point where the pulmonary artery crosses the bronchus.

A transparent variety of calcite, the best of which is obtained in Iceland. It is used for the prisms of the polariscope, because of its strong double refraction. Cf. Calcite.