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A muscle of the thigh, called the tailor's muscle, which arises from the hip bone and is inserted just below the knee. So named because its contraction was supposed to produce the position of the legs assumed by the tailor in sitting.

the rays. The flattened and much elongated snout has a row of stout toothlike structures inserted along each edge, forming a sawlike organ with which it mutilates or kills its prey.

Hence, the circular tube, with a brim, in a candlestick, into which the candle is inserted.

To cut the dewlap (of a cow or an ox), and to insert a seton, so as to cause an issue. [Prov. Eng.]

ear's-foot (Helleborus foetidus); -- so called because the root was used in settering, or inserting setons into the dewlaps of cattle. Called also pegroots. Dr. Prior.

Something set in, or inserted. Thou shalt set in it settings of stones. Ex. xxviii. 17.

ug of a faucet or cock. Spigot and faucet joint, a joint for uniting pipes, formed by the insertion of the end of one pipe, or pipe fitting, into a socket at the end of another.

A small tube or spout inserted in a tree for conducting sap, as from a sugar maple.

The radius or ray of a wheel; one of the small bars which are inserted in the hub, or nave, and which serve to support the rim or felly.

sprain of the wrist. Sprain fracture (Med.), the separation of a tendon from its point of insertion, with the detachment of a shell of bone to which the tendon is attached.

A stick inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, a flat car, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off.

An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor. Stalk borer (Zoöl.), the larva of a noctuid moth (Gortyna nitela), which bores in the stalks of the raspberry, strawberry, tomato, asters, and many other garden plants, often doing much injury.

The stem or branch in which a graft is inserted. The scion overruleth the stock quite. Bacon.

ous forms, worn in a shirt front, collar, wristband, or the like, not sewed in place, but inserted through a buttonhole or eyelet, and transferable.

A stiff wire, inserted in catheters or other tubular instruments to maintain their shape and prevent clogging.

To put in the place of another person or thing; to exchange. Some few verses are inserted or substituted in the room of others. Congreve.

To place under; to insert. [R.]

Growing above the axil; inserted above the axil, as a peduncle. See Suprafoliaceous.

Inserted into the stem above the leaf, petiole, or axil, as a peduncle or flower.

To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate scores or projections from the middle, to prevent slipping; to scarf.