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To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat; as, the mouth is parched from fever. The ground below is parched. Dryden.

The auricle of the ear; also, the fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.

The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill. [In the last sense written also pea and pee.] Fore peak. (Naut.) See under Fore.

A cap of cells which covers the growing extremity of a root; a rootcap.

Either extremity of an axis of a sphere; especially, one of the extremities of the earth's axis; as, the north pole.

At or toward the caudal extremity; caudal; -- in human anatomy often used for dorsal.

Having a blunt or button-shaped extremity; -- said of cutting instruments.

illuminated. -- Quadrature of an orbit (Astron.), a point in an orbit which is at either extremity of the latus rectum drawn through the empty focus of the orbit.

The removal of the articular extremity of a bone, or of the ends of the bones in a false articulation.

at, coriaceous, dark fuscous or blackish expansions. It has been used as food in cases of extremity. -- Rock trout (Zoöl.), any one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus Hexagrammus, family Chiradæ, native of the North Pacific coasts; -- called also sea trout, boregat, bodieron, and starling. -- Rock…

escending, and commonly branching, axis of a plant, increasing in length by growth at its extremity only, not divided into joints, leafless and without buds, and having for its offices to fix the plant in the earth, to supply it with moisture and soluble matters, and sometimes to serve as a reservoir of nutriment for f…

The quality or power of distressing or paining; extreme degree; extremity; intensity; inclemency; as, the severity of pain or anguish; the severity of cold or heat; the severity of the winter.

The length of a perpendicular drawn from one extremity of an arc of a circle to the diameter drawn through the other extremity.

hen once filled) causes a continuous flow. The flow takes place only when the discharging extremity of the pipe ia lower than the higher liquid surface, and when no part of the pipe is higher above the surface than the same liquid will rise by atmospheric pressure; that is, about 33 feet for water, and 30 inches for me…

To rest upon the haunches, or the lower extremity of the trunk of the body; -- said of human beings, and sometimes of other animals; as, to sit on a sofa, on a chair, or on the ground. And he came and took the book put of the right hand of him that sate upon the seat. Bible (1551) (Rev. v. 7.) I pray you, jest, sir, as…

To be on the border; to live near the border, or extremity. Savages . . . who skirt along our western frontiers. S. S. Smith.

r; the climate. Thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies. Shak.

A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; -- so called from its resemblance to a spike of a barley.

The extremity, or point, of a horseshoe, answering to the heel. Bath sponge, any one of several varieties of coarse commercial sponges, especially Spongia equina. -- Cup sponge, a toilet sponge growing in a cup-shaped form. -- Glass sponge. See Glass-sponge, in the Vocabulary. -- Glove sponge, a variety of commercia…

A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.