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In an external manner; outwardly; on the outside; in appearance; visibly.

The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition; as, an accretion of earth. A mineral . . . augments not by grown, but by accretion. Owen. To strip off all the subordinate parts of his as a later accretion. Sir G. C. Lewis.

rations, by passing under the divided vessel a needle, the ends of which are left exposed externally on the cutaneous surface. Simpson.

The strawberry tree, a genus of evergreen shrubs, of the Heath family. It has a berry externally resembling the strawberry; the arbute tree. Trailing arbutus (Bot.), a creeping or trailing plant of the Heath family (Epigæa repens), having white or usually rose- colored flowers with a delicate fragrance, growing in smal…

ddice fly. These larvæ generally live in cylindrical cases, open at each end, and covered externally with pieces of broken shells, gravel, bits of wood, etc. They are a favorite bait with anglers. Called also caddice worm, or caddis worm. Caddice fly (Zoöl.), a species of trichopterous insect, whose larva is the caddic…

A lynx (Felis, or Lynx, caracal.) It is a native of Africa and Asia. Its ears are black externally, and tipped with long black hairs.

A soft and moist substance applied externally to some part of the body; a poultice. Dunglison.

, resin, etc., and is extensively used to produce anæsthesia in surgical operations; also externally, to alleviate pain.

um, a small tree of the East Indies. It is a most powerful drastic cathartic, and is used externally as a pustulant.

Increasing by internal growth and elongation at the summit, instead of externally, and having no distinction of pith, wood, and bark, as the rattan, the palm, the cornstalk.

A circle which rolls on the circumference of another circle, either externally or internally.

Outwardly; externally; on the exterior. Shak. They are exteriorly lifelike. J. H. Morse.

An order of marine Annelida, in which the body is imperfectly, or not at all, annulated externally, and is mostly without setæ.

the ruminants, as cattle, goats, and the like. The hollow horns of the Ox family consist externally of true horn, and are never shed.

e of treating diseases by the copious and frequent use of pure water, both internally and externally.

ves to moisten and protect. It covers the lining membranes of all the cavities which open externally, such as those of the mouth, nose, lungs, intestinal canal, urinary passages, etc.

ed also screamers. In many anatomical characters they are allied to the Anseres, but they externally resemble the wading birds.

The periosteum which covers the cranium externally; the region around the cranium.

Becoming putrid or rotten. Externally powerful, although putrescent at the core. Motley.

An extensive group of worms which have the body covered externally with vibrating cilia. It includes the Rhabdocoela and Dendrocoela. Formerly, the nemerteans were also included in this group.