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Of or pertaining to horticulture, or the culture of gardens or orchards.

Under the tail; -- applied to the bones which support the caudal fin rays in most fishes.

Pertaining to, or performed or pronounced at, an inauguration; as, an inaugural address; the inaugural exercises.

Between crura; -- applied especially to the interneural plates in the vertebral column of many cartilaginous fishes.

Lying between walls; inclosed by walls.

Between the neural arches or neural spines. -- n.

Being within the substance of the walls of an organ; as, intramural pregnancy.

Pertaining to natural or positive right. [R.] By the adjective jural we shall denote that which has reference to the doctrine of rights and obligations; as by the adjective "moral" we denote that which has reference to the doctrine of duties. Whewell.

Same as Macrura, Macrural, etc.

Same as Macrurous.

Of or pertaining to manufactures. [R.]

Of or pertaining to measure.

Of or pertaining to mental culture; serving to improve or strengthen the mind. [R.]

or pertaining to a wall; being on, or in, a wall; growing on, or against, a wall; as, a mural quadrant. "Mural breach." Milton. "Mural fruit." Evelyn.

sential; characteristic; not artifical, foreign, assumed, put on, or acquired; as, the natural growth of animals or plants; the natural motion of a gravitating body; natural strength or disposition; the natural heat of the body; natural color. With strong natural sense, and rare force of will. Macaulay.…

Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore.

The doctrine of those who deny a supernatural agency in the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in spiritual influences; also, any system of philosophy which refers the phenomena of nature to a blind force or forces acting necessarily or according to fixed laws, excluding origination or direction by one…

One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals.

Belonging to the doctrines of naturalism.

Nature; naturalness. [R.]