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eries of progressive changes; also, the result of developing, or a developed state. A new development of imagination, taste, and poetry. Channing.

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the process of development; as, the developmental power of a germ. Carpenter.

Failure or lack of development.

To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to become sterile.

Rendered abortive or sterile; undeveloped; checked in normal development at a very early stage; as, spines are aborted branches. The eyes of the cirripeds are more or less aborted in their mature state. Owen.

Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed.

The process of generation by development of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respect like the individual from which it proceeds.

Having lost the power of development, and become rotten, as eggs; putrid. Hence: Unfruitful or confused, as brains; muddled. Dryden.

A form of fruit in the cycle of development of the Rusts or Brands, an order of fungi, formerly considered independent plants.

uses; esp., the investigation of the causes of any disease; the science of the origin and development of things.

A second growth or crop, or (metaphorically) development. J. S. Mill.

Any imperfect development of the body, or any anomaly of organization.

A morbid or monstrous development, or change of form, or degeneration.

Having the ovule inverted at an early period in its development, so that the chalaza is as the apparent apex; -- opposed to orthotropous. Gray.

The doctrine, taught by Stahl, that the soul is the proper principle of life and development in the body.

The science or study of human generation, or the origin and development of man.

The science of the laws of the development of the human organism in relation to other organisms and to environment. -- An`thro*po*nom"ic*al (#), a.

variousantibodies, and the introduction of toxins or of foreign cells also results in the development of their specific antibodies.

Incomplete or faulty development.

r restraining from further motion, etc.; stoppage; hindrance; restraint; as, an arrest of development. As the arrest of the air showeth. Bacon.