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Increasing by internal growth and elongation at the summit, instead of externally, and having no distinction of pith, wood, and bark, as the rattan, the palm, the cornstalk.

The watery fluid contained in the membranous labyrinth of the internal ear.

Any parasite which lives in the internal organs of an animal, as the tapeworms, Trichina, etc.; -- opposed to ectoparasite. See Entozoön. -- En`do*par`a*sit"ic, a.

The internal or principal branch of the locomotive appendages of Crustacea. See Maxilliped.

The bony, cartilaginous, or other internal framework of an animal, as distinguished from the exoskeleton.

An internal process of the sternal plates in the thorax of insects.

Internal or inherent power; capacity of acting, operating, or producing an effect, whether exerted or not; as, men possessing energies may suffer them to lie inactive. The great energies of nature are known to us only by their effects. Paley.

tively; -- with into. He is particularly pleased with . . . Sallust for his entering into internal principles of action. Addison.

Internal; interior. [Obs.] Spenser.

The more granular cells, which finally become internal, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals.

ernal surface of the body; -- especially applied to feelings, such as hunger, produced by internal disturbances. Opposed to epiperipheral.

An internal parasitic organism.

The internal parts of animal bodies; the bowels; the guts; viscera; intestines.

A projection on the inner side of the distal end of the numerus; the internal condyle.

A circle which rolls on the circumference of another circle, either externally or internally.

of a gear wheel will describe a straight line when the wheel rolls around inside a fixed internal gear of twice its diameter.

s, excise duties; excise law; excise system. The English excise system corresponds to the internal revenue system in the United States. Abbot. An excise . . . is a fixed, absolute, and direct charge laid on merchandise, products, or commodities. 11 Allen's (Mass. ) Rpts.

A bursting with violence and loud noise, because of internal pressure; as, the explosion of a gun, a bomb, a steam boiler, etc.

relating to the outside, as of a body; being without; acting from without; -- opposed to internal; as, the external form or surface of a body. Of all external things, . . . She [Fancy] forms imaginations, aery shapes. Milton.

The state of being beyond the limits of a particular territory; esp. (Internat. Law),