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Want of action or activity; forbearance from labor; idleness; rest; inertness. Berkeley.

The quality of being incorporeal; immateriality. Berkeley.

To unite by apposition or contact, as two vessels in an animal body. Berkeley.

An islander. [R.] Berkeley.

f introverting, or the state of being introverted; the act of turning the mind inward. Berkeley.

Addison. In such a juncture, what can the most plausible and refined philosophy offer Berkeley.

An order of sponges having a skeleton composed of hornlike fibers. It includes the commercial sponges.

A tough, horny animal substance entering into the composition of the skeleton of sponges, and other invertebrates; -- called also keratode.

The spikelet or flower cluster of grasses. Gray.

Logical. [Obs.] Berkeley.

Having, in some respects, the nature of light; resembling light. Berkeley.

The fibrous skeleton of the fruit, used as a sponge and in the manufacture of caps and women's hats; -- written also loofah.

bject of a government; one who express his discontent by words or overt acts. Spenser. Berkeley.

ebrata, lower than fishes, characterized by their purselike gill cavities, cartilaginous skeletons, absence of limbs, and a suckerlike mouth destitute of jaws. It includes the lampreys and hagfishes. See Cyclostoma, and Lamprey. Called also Marsipobranchiata, and Marsipobranchii.

o holds to the existence of matter, as distinguished from the idealist, who denies it. Berkeley.

That part of the skeleton of the hand or forefoot between the carpus and phalanges. In man it consists of five bones. See Illust. of Artiodactyla.

That part of the skeleton of the hind or lower limb between the tarsus and phalanges; metatarse. It consists, in the human foot, of five bones. See Illustration in Appendix.

Microscopic. [R.] Berkeley.

ed from, the Neanderthal, a valley in the Rhine Province, in which were found parts of a skeleton of an early type of man. The skull is characterized by extreme dolichocephaly, flat, retreating forehead, with closed frontal sutures, and enormous superciliary ridges. The cranial capacity is estimated at about 1,220 cubi…

r bony arch on the dorsal side of the centrum of the vertebra in a segment of the spinal skeleton, usually inclosing a segment of the spinal cord.