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Geog.), a large body of land differing from an island, not merely in its size, but in its structure, which is that of a large basin bordered by mountain chains; as, the continent of North America.

The hard parts or skeleton of various Anthozoa, and of a few Hydrozoa. Similar structures are also formed by some Bryozoa.

Any structure having the appearance of a cord, esp. a tendon or a nerve. See under Spermatic, Spinal, Umbilical, Vocal.

The science of the world or universe; or a treatise relating to the structure and parts of the system of creation, the elements of bodies, the modifications of material things, the laws of motion, and the order and course of nature.

f wood or metal, commonly wedge-shaped, used for fastening together parts of a machine or structure. It is driven into an opening through one or all of the parts.

A brace, in a framed structure, which resists a strain of a character opposite to that which a main brace is designed to receive.

Having a crevice or crevices; as, a creviced structure for storing ears of corn. Trickling through the creviced rock. J. Cunningham.

A box or bin, or similar wooden structure, for storing grain, salt, etc.; as, a crib for corn or oats.

en to any one of several yellow or scarlet dyestuffs of artificial production and complex structure. In general they are diazo and sulphonic acid derivatives of benzene and naphthol.

A piece of any structure which is fitted or framed crosswise.

Formed by crystallization; like crystal in texture. Their crystalline structure. Whewell.

octrine or science of crystallization, teaching the system of forms among crystals, their structure, and their methods of formation.

The science of the crystalline structure of inorganic bodies.

(Zoöl.) A color marking or structure on the head somewhat resembling a hood.

A small structure standing on the top of a dome; a lantern.

A starling or other structure attached to the pier of a birdge, with an angle or edge directed up stream, in order better to resist the action of water, ice, etc.; the sharpened upper end of the pier itself.

Relating to a structure composed of a circular range of columns, without a core or building within. Weale.

A dome-shaped structure built over relics of Buddha or some Buddhist saint. [East Indies]

onnected with the reproductive organs of land snails, which contains a dart, or arrowlike structure.

antly shot. -- Dead load (Civil Engin.), a constant, motionless load, as the weight of a structure, in distinction from a moving load, as a train of cars, or a variable pressure, as of wind. -- Dead march (Mus.), a piece of solemn music intended to be played as an accompaniment to a funeral procession. -- Dead nettl…