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One born in a country; an aboriginal animal or plant; an autochthon. Evelyn. Tylor.

existing as one entity, or distinct being or object; single; one; as, an individual man, animal, or city. Mind has a being of its own, distinct from that of all other things, and is pure, unmingled, individual substance. A. Tucker. United as one individual soul. Milton.

Not to be subdued; untamable; invincible; as, an indomitable will, courage, animal.

Any lemurine animal of the genus Indris.

ing power quietly exerted; agency, force, or tendency of any kind which the sun exerts on animal and vegetable life; the influence of education on the mind; the influence, according to astrologers,of the stars over affairs. Astrologers call the evil influences of the stars,evil aspects. Bacon. Cantsthou bind the sweet…

Of or pertaining to a part of the columella of the ear, which in many animals projects below the connection with the stapes. -- n.

To instill, as principles or qualities; to introduce. That souls of animals infuse themselves Into the trunks of men. Shak. Why should he desire to have qualities infused into his son which himself never possessd Swift.

ed from compounds to ingredients. Sir I. Newton. Water is the chief ingredient in all the animal fluids and solids. Arbuthnot.

Transmission and reception by animal or plant generation.

The edible viscera of animals, as the heart, liver, etc.

The distribution of nerves in an animal, or to any of its parts.

To unite by apposition or contact, as two vessels in an animal body. Berkeley.

A white crystalline substance with a sweet taste, found in certain animal tissues and fluids, particularly in the muscles of the heart and lungs, also in some plants, as in unripe pease, beans, potato sprouts, etc. Called also phaseomannite.

That part of the hind leg of the horse and allied animals, between the hock, or ham, and the pastern joint.

Specif., the natural, unreasoning, impulse by which an animal is guided to the performance of any action, without of improvement in the method. The resemblance between what originally was a habit, and an instinct becomes so close as not to be distinguished. Darwin.

That part of physiology which treats of the integuments of animals and plants.

To breed by crossing different stocks of animals or plants.

The process or result of cross fertilization between different kinds of animals, or different varieties of plants. We have reason to believe that occasional intercrosses take place with all animals and plants. Darwin.

Between the radii, or rays; -- in zoölogy, said of certain parts of radiate animals; as, the interradial plates of a starfish.

; intermediate; within the tissues; as, interstitial cavities or spaces in the tissues of animals or plants.