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the air passages of the higher animals, and in the lower animals often covering also the whole or a part of the exterior. They are also found on some vegetable organisms. In the Infusoria, and many larval forms, they are locomotive organs.

[0] which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold.

ical instruments employed for measuring angles, in which the graduation extends round the whole circumference of a circle, or 360º. -- Circular lines, straight lines pertaining to the circle, as sines, tangents, secants, etc. -- Circular note or letter. (a) (Com.) See under Credit. (b) (Diplomacy) A letter addressed…

To sail completely round. Having circumnavigated the whole earth. T. Fuller.

of the civil service, esp. in the matter of appointments to office. -- Civil state, the whole body of the laity or citizens not included under the military, maritime, and ecclesiastical states. -- Civil suit. Same as Civil action. -- CCivil war. See under War. -- Civil year. See under Year.

ometimes used contemptuously. Partidge and the rest of his clan may hoot me. Smolett. The whole clan of the enlightened among us. Burke.

by sudden collision; a bang. "Give the door such a clap, as you go out, as will shake the whole room." Swift.

kind of trumpet, whose note is clear and shrill. He sounds his imperial clarion along the whole line of battle. E. Everett.

The whole foot of an animal armed with hooked nails; the pinchers of a lobster, crab, etc.

moral defilement; sinless; pure. Create in me a clean heart, O God. Ps. li. 10 That I am whole, and clean, and meet for Heaven Tennyson.

One of the divisions of a cleft hoof, as in the ox; also, the whole hoof.

ks well, and has excellent good clothes. Shak. If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole. Mark. v. 28.

A sudden copious rainfall, as the whole cloud had been precipitated at once.

tively; as, to clutch power. A man may set the poles together in his head, and clutch the whole globe at one intellectual grasp. Collier. Is this a dagger which I see before me . . . Come, let me clutch thee. Shak.

The act of buying the whole quantity of any commodity. [R.] Bacon.

Composed of mutually dependent parts; making a logical whole; consistent; as, a coherent plan, argument, or discourse.

The right which an heir has of throwing the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, and sharing it equaly with others who are of the same degree of kindred.

The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism. W. G. Summer.

pearance as by addition of color; appearance; show; disguise; misrepresentation. Tell the whole story without coloring or gloss. Compton Reade. Dead coloring. See under Dead.

A body of troops, or any naval or military force or post, or the whole territory under the authority or control of a particular officer.