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The utmost point; highest degree; most aggravated or intense form. "The extremity of bodily pain." Ray.

; to regard with horror or detestation; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. Rom. xii. 9.

Increasing by growth from the extremity; as, an acrogenous plant.

The outer extremity of the shoulder blade.

A spore borne at the extremity of the cells of fructification in fungi.

Having a sucker at each extremity, as certain entozoa, by means of which they adhere.

At the extremity most remote from the hilum, as the embryo, or inverted with respect to the seed, as the radicle. Lindley.

ture, will not congeal and freeze, only it will lose the strength, and become appalled in extremity of cold. Holland.

A little banner, flag, or streamer. [Written also bannerol.] From the extremity of which fluttered a small banderole or streamer bearing a cross. Sir W. Scott.

That extremity of a leaf, fruit, etc., at which it is attached to its support.

A conical calcareous fossil, tapering to a point at the lower extremity, with a conical cavity at the other end, where it is ordinarily broken; but when perfect it contains a small chambered cone, called the phragmocone, prolonged, on one side, into a delicate concave blade; the thunderstone. It is the internal shell o…

Dividing into two parts at one extremity; having two heads or two supports; as, a bicipital tree.

The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke.

pean leguminous herbs, Vicia Orobus and Ervum Ervilia. -- To the bitter end, to the last extremity, however calamitous.

A cavern in a cliff, at the water level, opening to the air at its farther extremity, so that the waters rush in with each surge and rise in a lofty jet from the extremity.

A fortification commanding the extremity of a bridge nearest the enemy, to insure the preservation and usefulness of the bridge, and prevent the enemy from crossing; a tête-de-pont.

A guttural pronounciation of the letter r, produced by trilling the extremity of the soft palate against the back part of the tongue; rotacism; -- often called the Newcastle, Northumberland, or Tweedside, burr.

To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut. [Written also but.] And Barnsdale there doth butt on Don's well-watered ground. Drayton.

Having the form of a cæcum, or bag with one opening; baglike; as, the cæcal extremity of a duct.

South Africa [Eng.] -- The Cape, the Cape of Good Hope, in the general sense of southern extremity of Africa. Also used of Cape Horn, and, in New England, of Cape Cod.