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o interlock, as the fingers of two hands that are joined; to be interwoven; to commingle. Owen.

The state of interdigitating; interdigital space. Owen.

on of parts that serve for a common purpose, but have no mutual dependence or connection. Owen.

Light from a lamp. This world's artificial lamplights. Owen Meredith.

Shaped like a laniary, or canine, tooth. Owen.

Of or pertaining to a meatus; resembling a meatus. Owen.

The mythic turf where danced the nymphs. Mrs. Browning. Hengist and Horsa, Vortigern and Rowena, Arthur and Mordred, are mythical persons, whose very existence may be questioned. Macaulay.

Of or pertaining to the neuroskeleton. [R.] Owen.

parts of the vertebrate skeleton which are relation with the nervous axis and locomation. Owen.

Of or pertaining to birds; as, ornithic fossils. Owen.

A metamere of the vertebrate skeleton; an osteomere; a vertebra. Owen.

An osteocomma. Owen.

An auditory ossicle. R. Owen.

The auditory capsule. Owen.

Hairy; full of, or made of, hair. The heat-retaining property of the pilose covering. Owen.

a hemal arch, forming, or corresponding to, a vertebral rib. -- Pleu*rap`o*phys"i*al, a. Owen.

A division into many members. F. Bowen.

r design. "Purposive characters." Bastian. Purposive modification of structure in a bone. Owen. It is impossible that the frog should perform actions morepurposive than these. Huxley.

Rowen. [Prov. Eng.]

See Rowen.