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A culture made by inoculating a solid medium, as gelatin, with the puncture of a needle or wire. The growths are usually of characteristic form.

height of an animal body; -- generally used of the human body. Foreign men of mighty stature came. Dryden.

Arrived at full stature. [R.]

The breeding of special stocks or races.

A stria.

Strictness. [Obs.] A man of stricture and firm abstinence. Shak.

Affected with a stricture; as, a strictured duct.

truction. [R.] His son builds on, and never is content Till the last farthing is in structure spent. J. Dryden, Jr.

Having a definite organic structure; showing differentiation of parts. The passage from a structureless state to a structured state is itself a vital process. H. Spencer.

Without a definite structure, or arrangement of parts; without organization; devoid of cells; homogeneous; as, a structureless membrane.

ited with, or containing, carbon in less than the normal proportion. [Written also subcarburetted.] [Obsoles.]

Somewhat obscurely or darkly. [R.] Donne.

An under structure; a foundation; groundwork.

The public officer who has charge of a subtreasury. [U. S.]

Situated under the urethra, or under its orifice.

The quality or state of being sulphureous. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

the qualities of sulphur, or brimstone; impregnated with sulphur. Her snakes united, sulphureous waters drink. Pope. -- Sul*phu"re*ous*ly, adv. -- Sul*phu"re*ous*ness, n.

A sulphide; as, a sulphuret of potassium. [Obsoles.]

Combined or impregnated with sulphur; sulphurized. [Written also sulphuretted.] Sulphureted hydrogen. (Chem.) See Hydrogen sulphide, under Hydrogen.

Bicarbureted. [Written also supercarburetted.] [Obsoles.]