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Formed by carving; graven; as, sculptile images. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Formed like a plate or salver; composed of platelike surfaces; as, the scutellated bone of a sturgeon. Woodward.

A rounded apothecium having an elevated rim formed of the proper thallus, the fructification of certain lichens.

The fold or line formed by sewing together two pieces of cloth or leather.

cretions of some plants, or the sebaceous humor of animals. Sebaceous cyst (Med.), a cyst formed by distention of a sebaceous gland, due to obstruction of its excretory duct. -- Sebaceous glands (Anat.), small subcutaneous glands, usually connected with hair follicles. They secrete an oily semifluid matter, composed i…

otland who seceded from the communion of the Established Church, about the year 1733, and formed the Secession Church, so called.

ary alcohols form ketones. -- Secondary amputation (Surg.), an amputation for injury, performed after the constitutional effects of the injury have subsided. -- Secondary axis (Opt.), any line which passes through the optical center of a lens but not through the centers of curvature, or, in the case of a mirror, whic…

le, and other digestive fluids. The process varies in the different glands, and hence are formed the various secretions.

The material of which sedimentary rocks are formed.

Of or pertaining to sediment; formed by sediment; containing matter that has subsided. Sedimentary rocks. (Geol.) See Aqueous rocks, under Aqueous.

ment; specifically (Geol.), the deposition of the material of which sedimentary rocks are formed.

hagra. They feed mainly on seeds. -- Seed gall (Zoöl.), any gall which resembles a seed, formed, on the leaves of various plants, usually by some species of Phylloxera. -- Seed leaf (Bot.), a cotyledon. -- Seed lobe (Bot.), a cotyledon; a seed leaf. -- Seed oil, oil expressed from the seeds of plants. -- Seed oyst…

. Seedy toe, an affection of a horse's foot, in which a cavity filled with horn powder is formed between the laminæ and the wall of the hoof.

One of the cells or division formed by segmentation, as in egg cleavage or in fissiparous cell formation.

; cell multiplication; endogenous cell formation. Segmentation cavity (Biol.), the cavity formed by the arrangement of the cells in segmentation or cleavage of the ovum; the cavity of the blastosphere. In the gastrula stage, the segmentation cavity in which the mesoblast is formed lies between the entoblast and ectobla…

; nicely chosen; selected; choice. A few select spirits had separated from the crowd, and formed a fit audience round a far greater teacher. Macaulay.

Created by one's self; not formed or constituted by another.

Half formed; imperfectly formed; as, semiformed crystals.

A peptonelike body, insoluble in alcohol, formed by boiling collagen or gelatin for a long time in water. Hemicollin, a like body, is also formed at the same time, and differs from semiglutin by being partly soluble in alcohol.

A believer in the old theory that the newly created being is formed by the admixture of the seed of the male with the supposed seed of the female.