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In human beings, the hinder part of the body, extending from the neck to the end of the spine; in other animals, that part of the body which corresponds most nearly to such part of a human being; as, the back of a horse, fish, or lobster.

or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat. [Obs.] The bail of a canoe . . . made of a human skull. Capt. Cook.

To cut squarely across, as the tail of a hors, or the forelock of human beings; to cut (the hair). His hair banged even with his eyebrows. The Century Mag.

A cruel, savage, brutal man; one destitute of pity or humanity. "Thou fell barbarian." Philips.

Cruelty; ferociousness; inhumanity. Treating Christians with a barbarity which would have shocked the very Moslem. Macaulay.

Cruel; ferocious; inhuman; merciless. By their barbarous usage he died within a few days, to the grief of all that knew him. Clarendon.

The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults.

e quality of being becoming, appropriate, or fit; congruity; fitness. The becomingness of human nature. Grew.

Applied colloquially to human flesh.

ual, actual or ideal; living existence, as distinguished from a thing without life; as, a human being; spiritual beings. What a sweet being is an honest mind ! Beau. & Fl. A Being of infinite benevolence and power. Wordsworth.

Polite or elegant literature; the humanities; -- used somewhat vaguely for literary works in which imagination and taste are predominant.

That part of the human body which extends downward from the breast to the thighs, and contains the bowels, or intestines; the abdomen.

the sensibility to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only motives which influence human desires and actions, and that these are the sufficient explanation of ethical and jural conceptions.

Having the qualities of a beast; brutal; below the dignity of reason or humanity; irrational; carnal; beastly; sensual. Shak.

To make bestial, or like a beast; to degrade; to brutalize. The process of bestializing humanity. Hare.

A brownish green pigment found in human gallstones and in old bile. It is a derivative of bilirubin.

A dark green pigment found in small quantity in human gallstones.

A reddish yellow pigment present in human bile, and in that from carnivorous and herbivorous animals; the normal biliary pigment.

Measurement of life; calculation of the probable duration of human life.

The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.