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The posterior part of the alimentary canal, including the rectum, and sometimes the large intestine also.

case. -- Hollow quoin (Engin.), a pier of stone or brick made behind the lock gates of a canal, and containing a hollow or recess to receive the ends of the gates. -- Hollow root. (Bot.) See Moschatel. -- Hollow square. See Square. -- Hollow ware, hollow vessels; -- a trade name for cast-iron kitchen utensils, eart…

ineering, which treats of fluids in motion, especially of water, its action in rivers and canals, the works and machinery for conducting or raising it, its use as a prime mover, and the like.

a means of moving bodies, it is one of the mechanical powers, so called. (b) (Railroad & Canal) An inclined portion of track, on which trains or boats are raised or lowered from one level to another.

xyl sulphate of potash, C8H6NSO4K, and is derived from the indol formed in the alimentary canal. Called also uroxanthin.

stive action; a failure of the normal changes which food should undergo in the alimentary canal; dyspepsia; incomplete or difficult digestion.

sion with caustic potash, and is present in human excrement, as well as in the intestinal canal of some herbivora.

To take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal. Sir T. Browne.

That which is introduced into the body by the stomach or alimentary canal; -- opposed to egesta.

Of or pertaining to, or in the region of, the inguen or groin; as, an inguinal canal or ligament; inguinal hernia. Inguinal ring. See Abdominal ring, under Abdominal.

Between oceans; connecting oceans; as, interoceanic communication; an interoceanic canal.

an animal; as, the intestinal tube; intestinal digestion; intestinal ferments. Intestinal canal. Same as Intestine, n. -- Intestinal worm (Zoöl.), any species of helminth living in the intestinal canal of any animal. The species are numerous.

That part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus.

The water course of a street; a little canal or channel; a gutter; also, a puddle. Bp. Hall.

A convex portion of a vessel's figure where a sudden change of shape occurs, as in a canal boat, where a nearly vertical side joins a nearly flat bottom.

A series of canals through which a stream of water is directed for suspending, carrying off, and depositing at different distances, the ground ore of a metal. Ure.

A lake steamer or canal boat.

A rise; a degree of elevation; as, the lift of a lock in canals.

The barrier or works which confine the water of a stream or canal.

A waste weir for a canal, discharging into a lock chamber.