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To confuse; to entangle. I am lost and embrangled in inextricable difficulties. Berkeley.

Above, or on the dorsal side of, the axis of the skeleton; episkeletal.

ould not equal the mind that he found in himself to the infinite and incomprehensible. Berkeley.

A prefix signifying out of, outside; as in exocarp, exogen, exoskeleton.

Concrete strengthened by a core or foundation skeleton of iron or steel bars, strips, etc. Floors, columns, piles, water pipes, etc., have been successfully made of it. Called also armored concrete steel, and reënforced concrete.

An order of sponges having a fibrous skeleton, including the commercial sponges.

Fin ray (Anat.), one of the hornlike, cartilaginous, or bony, dermal rods which form the skeleton of the fins of fishes. -- Fin whale (Zoöl.), a finback. -- Paired fins (Zoöl.), the pectoral and ventral fins, corresponding to the fore and hind legs of the higher animals. -- Unpaired, or Median, fins (Zoöl.), the dor…

Fluxional. Berkeley.

One skilled in fluxions. Berkeley.

asis; plan; -- used only in the singular. Answer directly upon the foot of dry reason. Berkeley.

To construct by fitting and uniting the several parts of the skeleton of any structure; specifically, in woodwork, to put together by cutting parts of one member to fit parts of another. See Dovetail, Halve, v. t., Miter, Tenon, Tooth, Tusk, Scarf, and Splice.

Undue boldness of speculation; unbelief. Berkeley. -- a.

n honest man. Latimer. Bever gear. See Bevel gear. -- Core gear, a mortise gear, or its skeleton. See Mortise wheel, under Mortise. -- Expansion gear (Steam Engine), the arrangement of parts for cutting off steam at a certain part of the stroke, so as to leave it to act upon the piston expansively; the cut-off. See u…

scales, a heterocercal tail, paired fins without an axis, fulcra on the fins, and a bony skeleton, with the vertebræ convex in front and concave behind, forming a ball and socket joint. See Ganoidel.

One of the pelets or inner chaffy scales of the flowers or spikelets of grasses.

nthropoid ape of West Africa. It is larger than a man, and is remarkable for its massive skeleton and powerful muscles, which give it enormous strength. In some respects its anatomy, more than that of any other ape, except the chimpanzee, resembles that of man.

Having one of the two florets in the same spikelet neuter, and the other unisexual, whether male or female; -- said of grasses.

Beneath the axis of the skeleton; subvertebral; hyposkeletal.

To form into fire. [R.] Stukeley.

sm, esp. a system that maintains the immateriality of the soul; idealism; esp., Bishop Berkeley's theory of idealism.