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Used in producing motion; as, the locomotive organs of an animal.

A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.; as, an organ loft.

A nitrogenous organic base obtained by the oxidation of amarine, and regarded as a derivative of benzoic aldehyde. It is obtained in long white crystalline tufts, -- whence its name.

Not placing a high estimate on ecclesiastical organizations or forms; -- applied especially to Episcopalians, and opposed to high- church. See High Church, under High.

An organ for aërial respiration; -- commonly in the plural. My lungs began to crow like chanticleer. Shak.

Having lungs, or breathing organs similar to lungs.

ot.), one in which the floral envelopes are overdeveloped at the expense of the essential organs.

ke blood, but free from red blood corpuscles. It is absorbed from the various tissues and organs of the body, and is finally discharged by the thoracic and right lymphatic ducts into the great veins near the heart.

A political organization arranged and controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends. [Political Cant]

A secret society which organized in Sicily as a political organization, but is now widespread among Italians, and is used to further or protect private interests, reputedly by illegal methods.

Any crude mixture of mineral or organic matters in the state of a thin paste. Ure.

; a distemper, disorder, or indisposition, proceeding from impaired, defective, or morbid organic functions; especially, a lingering or deep-seated disorder. The maladies of the body may prove medicines to the mind. Buckminster.

the sex that produces spermatozoa, by which the ova are fertilized; not female; as, male organs.

A glandular organ for secreting milk, characteristic of all mammals, but usually rudimentary in the male; a mammary gland; a breast; under; bag.

The anterior pair of mouth organs of insects, crustaceaus, and related animals, whether adapted for biting or not. See Illust. of Diptera.

or other material, commonly in detachable pieces, for exhibiting the different parts and organs, their relative position, etc.

A keyboard of an organ or harmonium for the fingers, as distinguished from the pedals; a clavier, or set of keys. Moore (Encyc. of Music).

The lower lip of the larva of a dragon fly, modified so as to form a prehensile organ. Mask house, a house for masquerades. [Obs.]

one who has held the office of master in a lodge of Freemasons or in a society similarly organized. -- The old masters, distinguished painters who preceded modern painters; especially, the celebrated painters of the 16th and 17th centuries. -- To be master of one's self, to have entire self-control; not to be govern…

gents, and maintains that spiritual phenomena, so called, are the result of some peculiar organization of matter.