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To come or go into; to pass into the interior of; to pass within the outer cover or shell of; to penetrate; to pierce; as, to enter a house, a closet, a country, a door, etc.; the river enters the sea. That darksome cave they enter. Spenser. I, . . . with the multitude of my redeemed, Shall enter heaven, long absent. M…

The outer layer of the blastoderm; the ectoderm. See Blastoderm, Delamination.

That of the pericardium which forms the outer surface of the heart; the cardiac pericardium.

The external or outermost layer of a fructified or ripened ovary. See Illust. under Endocarp.

A cavity formed by the invagination of the outer wall of the body, as the atrium of an amphioxus and possibly the body cavity of vertebrates.

The outer, nonsensitive layer of the skin; cuticle; scarfskin. See Dermis.

The upper and outer element of periotic bone, -- in man forming a part of the temporal bone.

y applied to the feelings which originate at the extremities of nerves distributed on the outer surface, as the sensation produced by touching an object with the finger; -- opposed to entoperipheral. H. Spenser.

The outer branch of the legs in certain Crustacea. See Maxilliped.

The skin or coat of a seed, especially the outer coat. See Testa.

The thickish outer coat of certain spores.

A projection on the outer side of the distal end of the humerus; the external condyle.

To dress up; to array; accouter. The country are led astray in following the town, and equipped in a ridiculous habit, when they fancy themselves in the height of the mode. Addison.

r a single soldier, including whatever is necessary for efficient service; equipments; accouterments; habiliments; attire. Did their exercises on horseback with noble equipage. Evelyn. First strip off all her equipage of Pride. Pope.

The outer part of the fructification of most lichens.

The outer portion of a fruit, as the flesh of a peach or the rind of an orange. See Illust. of Drupe.

The extreme outer wall of a spore; the epispore.

The small aperture or foremen in the outer coat of the ovule of a plant.

The outer coat of the anther.

The outer membrane of the grains of pollen of flowering plants.