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The state, activity, or enjoyment of animals; mere animal life without intellectual or moral qualities; sensuality.

sion of the Articulata, having the body formed of numerous rings or annular segments, and without jointed legs. The principal subdivisions are the Chætopoda, including the Oligochæta or earthworms and Polychæta or marine worms; and the Hirudinea or leeches. See Chætopoda.

In an anonymous manner; without a name. Swift.

Want of appetite, without a loathing of food. Coxe.

me word in a different sense; as, Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft.

oked tube of metal, to be introduced into the neck of a bottle for drawing out the liquid without disturbing the sediment or causing a gurgling noise.

gistic lamp, in which a coil of wire is kept in a state of continued ignition by alcohol, without flame.

Without voice; voiceless; nonvocal.

Without light.

Belonging to the Aplacentata; without placenta.

n of Amphineura in which the body is naked or covered with slender spines or setæ, but is without shelly plates.

anatic focus of a lens (Opt.), the point or focus from which rays diverging pass the lens without spherical aberration. In certain forms of lenses there are two such foci; and it is by taking advantage of this fact that the best aplanatic object glasses of microscopes are constructed.

Without feet; footless.

An order of Amphibia without feet. See Ophiomorpha.

An order of fishes without ventral fins, including the eels.

Without pores.

To put questions to; to examine; to try. [Obs.] See Pose. To appose him without any accuser, and that secretly. Tyndale.

The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first. Growth by apposition (Physiol.), a mode of growth characteristic of non vascular tissues, in which nutritive matter from the blood…

The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception. Simple apprehension denotes no more than the soul's naked intellection of an object. Glanvill.

The act of ingrafting a sprig or shoot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock; -- called, also, inarching and grafting by approach.