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Granular; pertaining to, or having the granular structure characteristic of, the class of meteorites called chondrites.

A combining form meaning a grain, granular, granular cartilage, cartilaginous; as, the chondrocranium, the cartilaginous skull of the lower vertebrates and of embryos.

A fluosilicate of magnesia and iron, yellow to red in color, often occurring in granular form in a crystalline limestone.

A peculiar rounded granule of some mineral, usually enstatite or chrysolite, found imdedded more or less aboundantly in the mass of many meteoric stones, which are hence called chondrites.

One of the granules of protoplasm, which in mass give color to the part of the plant containing them.

A protoplasmic granule of some other color than green; -- also called chromoleucite.

To contravene; to nullify; as, to circumduct acts of judicature. [Obs.] Ayliffe.

An annulling; cancellation. [R.] Ayliffe.

A granular variety of pyroxene, green or white in color.

rce. When the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produced by it is a nullity, so far as concerns the party coerced. When the force is moral, then the act, though voidable, is imputable to the party doing it, unless he be so paralyzed by terror as to act convulsively. At the same time coercion is no…

A coarsely granular variety of garnet.

To violate; to nullify; to be inconsistent with; as, to contravene a law. Laws that place the subjects in such a state contravene the first principles of the compact of authority. Johnson.

uce. -- Corn stone, red limestone. [Prov. Eng.] -- Corn violet (Bot.), a species of Campanula. -- Corn weevil. (Zoöl.) (a) A small weevil which causes great injury to grain. (b) In America, a weevil (Sphenophorus zeæ) which attacks the stalk of maize near the root, often doing great damage. See Grain weevil, under We…

The circulation or movement of protoplasmic granules within a living vegetable cell.

A variety of starch extracted from the dahlia; -- called also inulin. See Inulin.

To destroy; to make null. [Obs.] [Profane scoffing] doth . . . deface the reverence of religion. Bacon. For all his power was utterly defaste [defaced]. Spenser.

A rendering null or void.

Capable of being annulled or made void; as, a defeasible title. -- De*fea"si*ble*ness, n.

To render null and void, as a title; to frustrate, as hope; to deprive, as of an estate. He finds himself naturally to dread a superior Being that can defeat all his designs, and disappoint all his hopes. Tillotson. The escheators . . . defeated the right heir of his succession. Hallam. In one instance he defeated his…

A crescentic mass of granular protoplasm present in the salivary glands.