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Arising from the neurapophysis of a vertebra.

Arising from the pleurapophysis of a vertebra. Owen.

; an incidental narrative, or digression, separable from the main subject, but naturally arising from it.

One of the products arising from the multiplication of two or more quantities by the same number or quantity. Thus, seven times 2, or 14, and seven times 4, or 28, are equimultiples of 2 and 4.

necessaries for an expedition or voyage; the collective designation for the articles comprising an outfit; equipage; as, a railroad equipment (locomotives, cars, etc. ; for carrying on business); horse equipments; infantry equipments; naval equipments; laboratory equipments. Armed and dight, In the equipments of a kni…

orthodox. Evangelical Alliance, an alliance for mutual strengthening and common work, comprising Christians of different denominations and countries, organized in Liverpool, England, in 1845. -- Evangelical Church. (a) The Protestant Church in Germany. (b) A church founded by a fusion of Lutherans and Calvinists in Ge…

r Re-direct examination, that made by a party calling a witness, after, and upon matters arising out of, the cross- examination.

Situated or arising outside of the heat; as, exocardial murmurs; -- opposed to endocardiac.

Arising or growing from without; exogenous.

Rising; relating to the east. [R.]

e leader of a party is the exponent of its principles. Exponent of a ratio, the quotient arising when the antecedent is divided by the consequent; thus, 6 is the exponent of the ratio of 30 to 5. [R.]

The state of rising above others; a projection. Evelyn. Boyle.

A swelling or rising; protuberance. [R.] Moxon.

A swelling or rising. [R.] Cotgrave.

The act of rising or coming into view. [Obs.] Baxter.

Arising; coming to light. [Obs.]

The group comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental unit in the organization of society. The welfare of the family underlies the welfare of society. H. Spencer.

ver; as, the Mohawk Flats. Envy is as the sunbeams that beat hotter upon a bank, or steep rising ground, than upon a flat. Bacon.

; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation. A covenant never to destroy The earth again by flood. Milton.

nothing but batter and bruise us. Barrow. With his broad fins and forky tail he laves The rising sirge, and flounces in the waves. Addison.