Search the Dictionary

tents of two or more cells or individuals in some plants and lower animals, by which new spores or germs are developed.

Having a body or substance; not spiritual; material. In this sense now usually written corporeal. Milton. A corporal heaven . . . .where the stare are. Latimer. What seemed corporal melted As breath into the wind. Shak.

The state of being or having a body; bodily existence; corporeality; -- opposed to spirituality. Dr. H. More.

A body, living or dead; the corporeal substance of a thing. Corpus callosum (k; pl. Corpora callosa (-s Etym: [NL., callous body] (Anat.), the great band of commissural fibers uniting the cerebral hemispheries. See Brain. -- Corpus Christi (kr Etym: [L., body of Christ] (R. C. Ch.), a festival in honor of the eucharis…

of flowerless plants, or those never having true stamens and pistils, but propagated by spores of various kinds.

A minute vesicle in a red seaweed, which contains the reproductive spores.

be of opinion; to think; to estimate; to opine; to suppose. And deemest thou as those who pore, With aged eyes, short way before Emerson.

ents in; to clear from anything that hinders the passage of fluids; as, to deobstruct the pores or lacteals. Arbuthnot.

Divested of a body; ceased to be corporal; incorporeal. The disembodied spirits of the dead. Bryant.

To divest of the or corporeal existence. Devils embodied and disembodied. Sir W. Scott.

gle themselves out of this labyrinth. Clarendon. A mind free and disentangled from all corporeal mixtures. Bp. Stillingfleet.

Having two spores.

splits into the shape of a star, and the inner one forms a ball containing the dustlike spores.

An elastic spiral filament for dispersing the spores, as in some liverworts.

Having the quality of closing the pores of the skin.

which, among some of the lower forms of life, precedes reproduction by budding, fission, spore formation, etc.

Having the spores contained in a case; -- applied to fungi.

To excrete; to throw off through the pores; as, fluids are excerned in perspiration. [R.] Bacon.

ered on the spur of the moment, or without previous study; unpremeditated; off-hand; extempore; extemporary; as, an extemporaneous address or production. -- Ex*tem`po*ra"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Ex*tem`po*ra"ne*ous*ness,n.

The quality of being done or devised extempore [Obs.] Johnson.