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An independent, or partially independent, zooid of a compound animal.

Intoxicated, or partially so; intoxicating. [R.] T. Brown.

ng; installation. Take oaths from all kings and magistrates at their installment, to do impartial justice by law. Milton.

a series, according to the law of the series; to introduce, as a number or quantity, in a partial series, according to the law of that part of the series.

A partial, secondary, or small involucre. See Illust. of Involucre.

Without regard for conditions, circumstances, or consequences; unbiased; independent; impartial; as, an irrespective judgment.

A white crystalline substance obtained by the partial reduction of isatin. [Written also isatyde.]

Rendering or disposed to render to each one his due; equitable; fair; impartial; as, just judge. Men are commonly so just to virtue and goodness as to praise it in others, even when they do not practice it themselves. Tillotson. Just intonation. (Mus.) (a) The correct sounding of notes or intervals; true pitch. (b) The…

n conduct; fair representation of facts respecting merit or demerit; honesty; fidelity; impartiality; as, the justice of a description or of a judgment; historical justice.

Well balanced; even; just; steady; impartial; as, a level head; a level understanding. [Colloq.] " A level consideration." Shak.

uniform duration, in which these symptoms are wholly absent (intermittent fever), or only partially so (remittent fever); fever and ague; chills and fever.

A white amorphous or crystalline substance obtained by the partial dehydration of mannite.

amorphous substance, intermediate between saccharic acid and mannite, and obtained by the partial oxidation of the latter.

A variety of sugar obtained by the partial oxidation of mannite, and closely resembling levulose.

A tract of soft wet land, commonly covered partially or wholly with water; a fen; a swamp; a morass. [Written also marish.] Marsh asphodel (Bot.), a plant (Nartheeium ossifragum) with linear equitant leaves, and a raceme of small white flowers; -- called also bog asphodel. -- Marsh cinquefoil (Bot.), a plant (Potentil…

A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection; as, a dancer's mask; a fencer's mask; a ball player's mask.

repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put in shape or order again; to re-create; as, to mend a garment or a machine.

An ovum, as that of a mammal, only partially composed of germinal matter, that is, consisting of both a germinal portion and an albuminous or nutritive one; -- opposed to holoblast.

Consisting only in part of germinal matter; characterized by partial segmentation only; as, meroblastic ova, in which a portion of the yolk only undergoes fission; meroblastic segmentation; -- opposed to holoblastic.

, regarded as a complex ether, and having a pleasant ethereal odor. It is obtained by the partial oxidation of methyl alcohol. Called also formal.