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External; outward; not inherent. [Obs.] Shak.

elating to the outside, as of a body; being without; acting from without; -- opposed to internal; as, the external form or surface of a body. Of all external things, . . . She [Fancy] forms imaginations, aery shapes. Milton.

The quality of being manifest to the senses; external acts or appearances; regard for externals. This externalism gave Catholicism a great advantage on all sides. E. Eggleston.

Pertaining to externalism North Am. Rev.

State of being external; exteriority; (Metaph.)

To make external; to manifest by outward form. Thought externalizes itself in language. Soyce.

In an external manner; outwardly; on the outside; in appearance; visibly.

An officer in attendance upon a hospital, but not residing in it; esp., one who cares for the out-patients.

A term applied to the bark obtained from young oak trees. McElrath.

Pf, pertaining to, or involving, brethren; becoming to brothers; brotherly; as, fraternal affection; a fraternal embrace. -- Fra*ter"nal*ly, adv. An abhorred, a cursed, a fraternal war. Milton. Fraternal love and friendship. Addison.

To fraternize; to hold fellowship. Jefferson.

Fraternization. [R.] Jefferson.

The state or quality of being fraternal or brotherly; brotherhood.

The act of fraternizing or uniting as brothers. I hope that no French fraternization . . . could so change the hearts of Englishmen. Burke.

To bring into fellowship or brotherly sympathy. Correspondence for fraternizing the two nations. Burke.

One who fraternizes. Burke.

A lantern having a lamp surrounded by a hollow cylindrical Fresnel lens.

An instrument like a guitar. "Harps, lutes, and giternes." Chaucer.

Pertaining to yesterday. [Obs.] See Yester, a. Ld. Lytton.

Between the hyoid bone and the sternum, or pertaining to them; infrahyoid; as, the hyosternal region of the neck.