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To regard with jealousy or suspicion; to suspect; to doubt the integrity of; to distrust. I will never mistrust my wife again. Shak.

A group of atoms so united and combined by chemical affinity that they form a complete, integrated whole, being the smallest portion of any particular compound that can exist in a free state; as, a molecule of water consists of two atoms of hydrogen and one of oxygen. Cf. Atom.

Connected with, or becoming an integral part of, a living unit or of the morphological framework; as, morphotic, or tissue, proteids. Foster.

r actuated by a motor, esp. by an individual electric motor. An electric motor forms an integral part of many machine tools in numerous modern machine shops.

Existence as a distinct or individual nation; national unity and integrity.

The death of a part by molecular disintegration and without loss of continuity, as in the processes of degeneration and atrophy. Virchow.

e death of a bone or portion of a bone in mass, as opposed to its death by molecular disintegration. See Caries.

ects the noumena of Kant, restricting knowledge to phenomena as constituted by a priori categories.

station; nobility; grandeur; stateliness. His purposes are full honesty, nobleness, and integrity. Jer. Taylor.

The fold of integument, usually supported by bony plates, which protects the gills of most fishes and some amphibians; the gill cover; the gill lid.

Hence: That which affords effectual protection or security; a sateguard; as, the trial by jury is the palladium of our civil rights. Blackstone.

One of the numerous small hollow processes of the integument between the plates of starfishes.

A score. Partition of numbers (Math.), the resolution of integers into parts subject to given conditions. Brande & C.

In bats, an expansion of the integument uniting the fore limb with the body and extending between the elongated fingers to form the wing; in birds, the similar fold of integument uniting the fore limb with the body.

The outer, hardened integument which covers most hydroids.

The entire covering of an invertebrate animal, as echinoderm or coelenterate; the integument.

That part of the integument of an insect which surrounds the spiracles.

Same as Steganopodes.

ce of DNA, usually circular, functioning as part of the genetic material of a cell, not integrated with the chromosome and replicating independently of the chromosome, but transferred, like the chromosome, to subsequent generations. In bacteria, plasmids often carry the genes for antibiotic resistance; they are exploit…

Something worthy of praise. [Obs.] Integrity, fidelity, and other gracious plausibilities. E. Vaughan.