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A collective fleshy fruit, in which the ovaries are hidden within a hollow receptacle, as in the fig.

Immovable articulation by close union, as in sutures. It sometimes includes symphysial articulations also. See the Note under Articulation, n., 1.

A kind of aggregate fruit in which the ovaries cohere in a solid mass, with a slender receptacle, as in the magnolia; also, a similar multiple fruit, as a mulberry.

Composed of several carpels consolidated into one ovary.

An immovable articulation in which the union is formed by cartilage. -- Syn`chon*dro"si*al, a.

ning to, or characterized by, syncretism; as, a syncretistic mixture of the service of Jehovah and the worship of idols.

The immovable union of two joints of a crinoidal arm. Line of syzygies (Astron.), the straight line connecting the earth, the sun, and the moon or a planet, when the latter is in conjunction or opposition; -- used chiefly of the moon.

receptacle for the pyx, or for the consecrated elements, whether a part of a building or movable.

Removal; murder. See To take off (c), under Take, v. t. The deep damnation of his taking-off. Shak.

uorum, var. esculenta, Colocasia macrorhiza, etc.), and their rootstocks. They have large ovate-sagittate leaves and large fleshy rootstocks, which are cooked and used for food in tropical countries.

enurus unicinctus), native of the tropical parts of South America. It has about thirteen movable bands composed of small, nearly square, scales. The head is long; the tail is round and tapered, and nearly destitute of scales; the claws of the fore feet are very large. Called also tatouary, and broad-banded armadillo.…

h.), constructed of concentric tubes, either stationary, as in the telescopic boiler, or movable, as in the telescopic chimney of a war vessel, which may be put out of sight by being lowered endwise.

A movable piece of ivory, lead, or other material, connected with the bellows of an organ, that gives notice, by its position, when the wind is exhausted.

The terminal joint or movable piece at the end of the abdomen of Crustacea and other articulates. See Thoracostraca.

The edifice erected at Jerusalem for the worship of Jehovah. Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch. John x. 23.

roperty, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject.

Shaped like a testicle, ovate and solid.

y, whose name was expressed by four letters among some ancient nations; as, the Hebrew JeHoVaH, Greek qeo`s, Latin deus, etc.

A mixture of the worship of different gods, as of Jehovah and idols. This syncretistic theocracy by no means excludes in him [Solomon] the proper service of idols. J. Murphy.

A fixed or movable ring, tube, or lining placed in a hole.