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esented to and thrown out by the commissioners who arbitrated the damage inflicted on the United States by the Confederate States cruisers built and supplied by Great Britain. -- Indirect demonstration, a mode of demonstration in which proof is given by showing that any other supposition involves an absurdity (reducti…

t from that of all other things, and is pure, unmingled, individual substance. A. Tucker. United as one individual soul. Milton.

being individual or constituting an individual; separate or distinct existence; oneness; unity. Arbuthnot. They possess separate individualities. H. Spencer.

om all the parts separately to the whole which they constitute, or into which they may be united collectively; the operation of discovering and proving general propositions; the scientific method. -- Philosophical induction, the inference, or the act of inferring, that what has been observed or established in respect…

A collection of hairs united so as to form a sort of cup, and inclosing the stigma of a flower.

To join; to unite. [R.] Shak.

To ally, or form an alliance witgh; to unite; to combine. With a willingness inleague our blood With his, for purchase of full growth in friendship. Ford.

To unite by apposition or contact, as two tubular vessels at their extremities; to anastomose.

Not separate; together; united. Shak.

has motions both of translation and rotation, is a line, which is supposed to be rigidly united with the body, and which for the instant is at rest. The motion of the body is for the instant simply that of rotation about the instantaneous axis. -- In`stan*ta"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- In`stan*ta"ne*ous*ness, n.…

The magnitude of a distributed force, as pressure, stress, weight, etc., per unit of surface, or of volume, as the case may be; as, the measure of the intensity of a total stress of forty pounds which is distributed uniformly over a surface of four square inches area is ten pounds per square inch.

catrize, as a wound, without suppuration. -- To heal by the second intention (Surg.), to unite after suppuration.

To link together; to unite closely or firmly, as by a chain. Two bosoms interchained with an oath. Shak.

Between and uniting the nervous ganglions; as, interganglionic cords.

, state, or kingdom. Department of the Interior, that department of the government of the United States which has charge of pensions, patents, public lands and surveys, the Indians, education, etc.; that department of the government of a country which is specially charged with the internal affairs of that country; the…

To join mutually; to unite. [R.] Shak.

To knit together; to unite closely; to intertwine.

To unite, as by lacing together; to insert or interpose one thing within another; to intertwine; to interweave. Severed into stripes That interlaced each other. Cowper. The epic way is every where interlaced with dialogue. Dryden. Interlacing arches (Arch.), arches, usually circular, so constructed that their archivolt…

To unite, embrace, communicate with, or flow into, one another; to be connected in one system; to lock into one another; to interlace firmly.

Uniting two groups; -- said of certain genera which connect family groups, or of species that connect genera. See Osculant.