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ctures, of which the greater part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are composed.

building, and usually below the surface of the ground, where provisions and other stores are kept.

d by differentiation converted into tissues and organs which, both in plants ans animals, are to be considered as a mass of minute cells communicating with each other. -- Cellular tissue. (a) (Anat.) See conjunctive tissue under Conjunctive. (b) (Bot.) Tissue composed entirely of parenchyma, and having no woody fiber…

An inflammantion of the cellular or areolar tissue, esp. of that lying immediately beneath the skin.

One who is empowered to examine manuscripts before they are committed to the press, and to forbid their publication if they contain anything obnoxious; -- an official in some European countries.

A measure of area, the hundredth part of an are; one square meter, or about 1

A principal or important point of concentration; the nucleus around which things are gathered or to which they tend; an object of attention, action, or force; as, a center of attaction.

To collect to a point; to concentrate. Thy joys are centered all in me alome. Prior.

to a water-tight case amidships, when in shallow water, or may be lowered to increase the area of lateral resistance and prevent leeway when the vessel is beating to windward. It is used in vessels of all sizes along the coast of the United States

large, flattened, venomous kinds of the order Chilopoda, found in tropical climates. they are many-jointed, and have a great number of feet. [Written also centipede (

nding it. Centrobaric method (Math.), a process invented for the purpose of measuring the area or the volume generated by the rotation of a line or surface about a fixed axis, depending upon the principle that every figure formed by the revolution of a line or surface about such an axis has for measure the product of t…

In two figures having relative motion, one of the two curves which are the loci of the instantaneous center.

and also to designate a modified mass of protoplasm about a centrosome whether aster rays are developed or not.

ngs so well developed that they can leave the water and breathe in air. In Australia they are called salmon and baramunda. See Dipnoi, and Archipterygium.

Of or pertaining to the grasses which are cultivated for their edible seeds (as wheat, maize, rice, etc.), or to their seeds or grain.

The doctrine or theory that psychical phenomena are functions or products of the brain only.

w welcomes . . . But where there is true friendship there needs none. Shak. Al ceremonies are in themselves very silly things; but yet a man of the world should know them. Chesterfield.

A genus of plants of the Cactus family. They are natives of America, from California to Chili.

A large and valuable fish of the Mackerel family, of the genus Scomberomorus. Two species are found in the West Indies and less commonly on the Atlantic coast of the United States, -- the common cero (Scomberomorus caballa), called also kingfish, and spotted, or king, cero (S. regalis).

A fact or truth unquestionable established. Certainties are uninteresting and sating. Landor.