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Not undergoing any metamorphosis; as, ametabolic insects.

An earth abounding in pyrites, used by the ancients to kill insects, etc., on vines; -- applied by Brongniart to a carbonaceous alum schist.

A division of insects having aquatic larvæ.

Having the outer edge prominent; said of the wings of insects.

A name sometimes applied to a member of any sect holding that rebaptism is necessary for those baptized in infancy.

Without joints, or having the joints indistinct, as some insects.

Of or relating to anatomy or dissection; as, the anatomic art; anatomical observations. Hume.

In an anatomical manner; by means of dissection.

One who is skilled in the art of anatomy, or dissection.

To dissect; to cut in pieces, as an animal vegetable body, for the purpose of displaying or examining the structure and use of the several parts.

A dissector.

The art of dissecting, or artificially separating the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection.

In the balk-line game, any of eight spaces, 7 inches by 3½, lying along a cushion and bisected transversely by a balk line. Object balls in an anchor space are treated as in balk.

The dissection of a human body, especially of a male; androtomy. Coxe.

Dissection of the human body, as distinguished from zoötomy; anthropotomy. [R.]

Dissection of the blood vessels and lymphatics of the body. Dunglison.

restricted sense, a member of the High Church party, or of the more advanced ritualistic section, in the Church of England.

English Reformation; Anglican; -- sometimes restricted to the ritualistic or High Church section of the Church of England.

ey become themselves infected by previously biting a subject affected with malaria, the insects cannot transmit the disease.

A group of insects which includes the lice.