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arate and expose the parts of, as an animal or a plant, for examination and to show their structure and relations; to anatomize.

especially, some part, or the whole, of an animal or plant dissected so as to exhibit the structure; an anatomical so prepared. Dissection wound, a poisoned wound incurred during the dissection of a dead body.

ppliances for excluding it; -- used in constructing or repairing ships. The name includes structures used for the examination, repairing, or building of vessels, as graving docks, floating docks, hydraulic docks, etc. -- Floating dock, a dock which is made to become buoyant, and, by floating, to lift a vessel out of w…

set as to be vertical while the roof slopes away from it. Also, the gablet, or houselike structure, in which it is contained.

One who draws plans and sketches of machinery, structures, and places; also, more generally, one who makes drawings of any kind.

Having the structure of the palate like that of the ostrich and emu.

A building; a structure; an architectural fabric; -- chiefly applied to elegant houses, and other large buildings; as, a palace, a church, a statehouse.

A boxlike structure with funnel-shaped traps for catching eels; an eelbuck.

den turn in a line of coast or course of a river; also, an angular or jointed part of any structure, as the raised arm of a chair or sofa, or a short pipe fitting, turning at an angle or bent.

ed also resinous electricity. (h) Organic electricity, that which is developed in organic structures, either animal or vegetable, the phrase animal electricity being much more common.

active; as, elegant manners; elegant style of composition; an elegant speaker; an elegant structure. A more diligent cultivation of elegant literature. Prescott.

Having the form, or structure, of an elytron.

A structure of earth, gravel, etc., raised to prevent water from overflowing a level tract of country, to retain water in a reservoir, or to carry a roadway, etc.

A putting in, or assigning to, a definite place; localization; as, the emplacement of a structure.

The science which treats of the brain, its structure and functions.

The innermost layer of the blastoderm and the structures derived from it; the hypoblast; the entoblast. See Illust. of Ectoderm.

A chitinous structure above the nervous cord in the thorax of certain Crustacea.

he art and science by which the mechanical properties of matter are made useful to man in structures and machines; the occupation and work of an engineer.

Any device or contrivance; machinery; structure or arrangement. Shenstone.

The superstructure which lies horizontally upon the columns. See Illust. of Column, Cornice.