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A noun which has no distinction of cases; an indeclinable noun.

Having the form, constitution, or habits, of a proper tree, in distinction from a shrub. Loudon.

With reference to the archetype; originally. "Parts archetypally distinct." Dana.

A group of Annelida remarkable for having no external segments or distinct ventral nerve ganglions.

A violet dye obtained from several species of lichen (Roccella tinctoria, etc.), which grow on maritime rocks in the Canary and Cape Verd Islands, etc. Tomlinson.

An extinct genus of Bryzoa characteristic of the subcarboniferous rocks. Its form is that of a screw.

, and more or less protected from the enemy's shot by iron or steel armor. There is no distinct and accepted classification distinguishing armored and protected cruisers from each other, except that the first have more or heavier armor than the second.

sisting of figures and colors borne in shields, banners, etc., as marks of dignity and distinction, and descending from father to son.

A distinct portion of an instrument, discourse, literary work, or any other writing, consisting of two or more particulars, or treating of various topics; as, an article in the Constitution. Hence: A clause in a contract, system of regulations, treaty, or the like; a term, condition, or stipulation in a contract; a con…

Distinctly uttered; spoken so as to be intelligible; characterized by division into words and syllables; as, articulate speech, sounds, words. Total changes of party and articulate opinion. Carlyle.

Article by article; in distinct particulars; in detail; definitely. Paley. I had articulately set down in writing our points. Fuller.

s of a language by the appropriate movements of the organs, as in pronunciation; as, a distinct articulation.

One who, or that which, articulates; as: (a) One who enunciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering.

l grasses. Gibbon. Artificial arguments (Rhet.), arguments invented by the speaker, in distinction from laws, authorities, and the like, which are called inartificial arguments or proofs. Johnson. -- Artificial classification (Science), an arrangement based on superficial characters, and not expressing the true natura…

constitutes the mature fructification. The different forms are known in mycology under distinct names. Called also spore fruit.

Having no distinct; without sexual action; as, asexual reproduction. See Fission and Gemmation.

The main part of either auricle of the heart as distinct from the auricular appendix. Also, the whole articular portion of the heart.

A extinct genus of Branchiopoda, very common in Silurian limestones.

The act of attainting, or the state of being attainted; the extinction of the civil rights and capacities of a person, consequent upon sentence of death or outlawry; as, an act of attainder. Abbott.

e teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve and enables the deaf to hear more or less distinctly; a dentiphone.