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The state of being inextricable.

In an inextricable manner.

Entangling. [Obs.] Shelton.

The state or quality of being intricate or entangled; perplexity; involution; complication; complexity; that which is intricate or involved; as, the intricacy of a knot; the intricacy of accounts; the intricacy of a cause in controversy; the intricacy of a plot. Freed from intricacies, taught to live The easiest way. M…

olved; perplexed; complicated; difficult to understand, follow, arrange, or adjust; as, intricate machinery, labyrinths, accounts, plots, etc. His style was fit to convey the most intricate business to the understanding with the utmost clearness. Addison. The nature of man is intricate. Burke.

In an intricate manner.

The state or quality of being intricate; intricacy.

Entanglement. [Obs.]

elations of pressure and temperature in a gas, when the volume remains constant. -- Isometrical perspective. See under Perspective. -- Isometrical projection, a species of orthographic projection, in which but a single plane of projection is used. It is so named from the fact that the projections of three equal lines…

Having equal perimeters of circumferences; as, isoperimetrical figures or bodies.

Pertaining to, or used for, purification.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, electricity by the action of magnets; as, magneto-electric induction. Magneto-electric machine, a form of dynamo-electric machine in which the field is maintained by permanent steel magnets instead of electro-magnets.

Of or pertaining to the manometer; made by the manometer.

Of or pertaining to the meter; arranged in meter; consisting of verses; as, metrical compositions.

In a metrical manner.

Belonging to micrometry; made by the micrometer. -- Mi`cro*met"ric*al*ly, adv.

Same as Monoclinic.

Not electric; conducting electricity.

The act or manner of feeding. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

ertaining to midwifery, or the delivery of women in childbed; as, the obstetric art. Obstetrical toad (Zoöl.), a European toad of the genus Alytes, especially A. obstetricans. The eggs are laid in a string which the male winds around his legs, and carries about until the young are hatched.