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The physiological individual, characterized by definiteness and independence of function, in distinction from the morphological individual or morphon.

Physiology. [R.] Dunglison.

An ancient name of England, still retained in poetry. In that nook-shotten isle of Albion. Shak.

A baboon. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

One of a sect of heretics, in the first centuries of the church, whose doctrine was a mixture of Judaism and Christianity. They denied the divinity of Christ, regarding him as an inspired messenger, and rejected much of the New Testament.

The system or doctrine of the Ebionites.

A contrivance for hatching eggs by artificial heat.

Exchange; barter; -- used commonly of lands.

A hollow cylinder of wickerwork, like a basket without a bottom. Gabions are made of various sizes, and filled with earth in building fieldworks to shelter men from an enemy's fire.

A traverse made with gabions between guns or on their flanks, protecting them from enfilading fire.

The part of a fortification built of gabions.

Furnished with gabions.

See Gabionade.

A labionasal sound or letter.

A microscopic organism; -- particularly applied to bacteria and especially to pathogenic forms; as, the microbe of fowl cholera.

Small gabions. Brande & C.

emerald. "Emerald meadows." Byron. Emerald fish (Zoöl.), a fish of the Gulf of Mexico (Gobionellus oceanicus), remarkable for the brilliant green and blue color of the base of the tongue; -- whence the name; -- called also esmeralda. -- Emerald green, a very durable pigment, of a vivid light green color, made from th…

A side work, made of gabions, fascines, or bags, filled with earth, or of earth heaped up, to afford cover from the flanking fire of an enemy.

e is also applied to other plants of the same family, as several species of Atriplex and Obione.

A morphological individual, characterized by definiteness of form bion, a physiological individual. See Tectology. Haeckel.