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A dilated base or receptacle, supporting a multilocular ovary.

High-flown, bombastic language. [Written also hifalutin.] [Jocular, U. S.] Lowell.

Full of humor; jocular; exciting laughter; playful; as, a humorous story or author; a humorous aspect.

Facetiousness; jocularity.

A prefix signifying in, within, interior; as, intraocular, within the eyeball; intramarginal.

A word used as a jocular oath. "By the living jingo." Goldsmith.

Twin; paired; -- said of various objects made or formed in pairs, as a binocular opera glass, a pair of gimmal rings, etc.

the hand; done or made by the hand; as, manual labor; the king's sign manual. "Manual and ocular examination." Tatham. Manual alphabet. See Dactylology. -- Manual exercise (Mil.) the exercise by which soldiers are taught the use of their muskets and other arms. -- Seal manual, the impression of a seal worn on the han…

lenses nearest the object (called the objective) is magnified by another lens called the ocular or eyepiece. -- Oxyhydrogen microscope, and Solar microscope. See under Oxyhydrogen, and Solar. -- Simple, or Single, microscope, a single convex lens used to magnify objects placed in its focus.

Monocular. Glanvill.

A prefix signifying much or many; several; more than one; as, multiaxial, multocular.

A combining form meaning eight; as in octodecimal, octodecimal, octolocular.

having the character or appearance of an ogre; suitable for an ogre. "An ogreish kind of jocularity." Dickens.

An old person. [Jocular] H. Kingsley.

Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the eye; ocular; as the ophthalmic, or orbitonasal, nerve, a division of the trigeminal, which gives branches to the lachrymal gland, eyelids, nose, and forehead. Ophthalmic region (Zoöl.), the space around the eyes.

Of or pertaining to the eye; ocular; as, the optic nerves (the first pair of cranial nerves) which are distributed to the retina. See Illust. of Brain, and Eye.

of a body as seen from the earth and sun; as, the annual parallax of a fixed star. -- Binocular parallax, the apparent difference in position of an object as seen separately by one eye, and then by the other, the head remaining unmoved. -- Diurnal, or Geocentric, parallax, the parallax of a body with reference to the…

A popular or jocular name for a drinking vessel. [Obs.]

The quality or state of being scurrile or scurrilous; mean, vile, or obscene jocularity. Your reasons . . . have been sharp and sententious, pleasant without scurrility. Shak.

Containing low indecency or abuse; mean; foul; vile; obscenely jocular; as, scurrilous language. The absurd and scurrilous sermon which had very unwisely been honored with impeachment. Macaulay.