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The membrane lining the inner surface of the uterus, or womb.

The inner layer of the bark of trees.

The inner coating of a seed. See Tegmen.

The semifluid, granular interior of certain unicellular organisms, as the inner layer of sarcode in the amoeba; entoplasm; endoplasta.

The thin inner coat of certain spores.

The foramen or passage through the inner integument of an ovule.

The inner lining of an another cell.

Pertaining to, or situated near, central or deep parts; inner; -- opposed to ectal. B. G. Wilder.

to listen. Roses blushing as they blow, And enticing men to pull. Beau. & Fl. My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. Prov. i. 10. Go, and thine erring brother gain, Entice him home to be forgiven. Keble.

The inner germ layer; endoderm. See Nucleolus.

The inner granular layer of protoplasm in a developing ovum.

One who enters; a beginner. "The entrant upon life." Bp. Terrot.

In French usage, a dish served at the beginning of dinner to give zest to the appetite; in English usage, a side dish, served with a joint, or between the courses, as a cutlet, scalloped oysters, etc.

dish usually eaten after the joints or principal dish; also, a sweetmeat, served with a dinner.

A projection on the inner side of the distal end of the numerus; the internal condyle.

nded to incite and encourage; advice; counsel; admonition. I'll end my exhortation after dinner. Shak.

Scantiness; smallness; thinness. [R.] Boyle.

Smallness; meagerness; slenderness; fineness, thinness. [R.] Paley.

The eversion or turning out of any organ, or of its inner surface; as, exstrophy of the eyelid or of the bladder.

te, under urgent necessity, or with scanty or unsuitable materials; as, to extemporize a dinner, a costume, etc. Themistocles . . . was of all men the best able to extemporize the right thing to be done. Jowett (Thucyd. ). Pitt, of whom it was said that he could extemporize a Queen's speech Lord Campbell.…