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Organic. The organical structure of human bodies, whereby they live and move. Bentley.

Connection with, or affinity to, one variety of isomerism, characteristic of the benzene compounds; -- contrasted with meta- or para-; as, the ortho position; hence, designating any substance showing such isomerism; as, an ortho compound.

groups are in the ortho position; a colorless, liquid, combustible hydrocarbon resembling benzene.

Waving. [Obs.] Ounding, paling, winding, or bending . . . of cloth. Chaucer.

A person excluded from the benefit of the law, or deprived of its protection. Blackstone.

One who does not live where his office, or business, or estate, is. Bentley.

To bend to excess.

To bend or bow over; to bend in a contrary direction. [Obs.] Fuller.

row; to impend over. [Poetic] Longfellow. Did with a huge projection overbrow Large space beneath. Wordsworth.

To cover over completely, as by a great wave; to overflow and bury beneath; to ingulf; hence, figuratively, to immerse and bear down; to overpower; to crush; to bury; to oppress, etc., overpoweringly. The sea overwhelmed their enemies. Ps. lxxviii. 53. Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhe…

A frame of wood, bent into the shape of the letter U, and embracing an ox's neck as a kind of collar, the upper ends passing through the bar of the yoke; also, anything so shaped, as a bend in a river.

Hydroxy benzene. Same as Phenol.

Hydroxybenzoic; pertaining to, or designating, any one of several hydroxyl derivatives of benzonic acid, of which the commonest is salicylic acid.

mon American freshwater tortoise (Chrysemys picta), having bright red and yellow markings beneath.

ploy flattery; to cajole; as, to palaver artfully. Palavering the little language for her benefit. C. Bront

One of the plates covering the points of junction at the bend of the shoulders and elbows. Fairholt.

rp stakes. Palisade cells (Bot.), vertically elongated parenchyma cells, such as are seen beneath the epidermis of the upper surface of many leaves. -- Palisade worm (Zoöl.), a nematoid worm (Strongylus armatus), parasitic in the blood vessels of the horse, in which it produces aneurisms, often fatal.…

chamber (Zoöl.), the cavity inclosed by the mantle. -- Pallial sinus (Zoöl.), an inward bending of the pallial line, near the posterior end of certain bivalve shells, to receive the siphon. See Illust. of Bivalve.

A Bengalese four-oared boat for passengers. [Written also panshway and paunchwas.] Malcom.

Formerly, a piece of cloth serving as a saddle; hence, a soft pad beneath a saddletree to prevent chafing.