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A channel for water. [Prov. Eng.] Crose.

a gutter. [Obs.] Chaucer.

nreasonably devoted to a system or party, and illiberal toward the opinions of others. "Bigoted to strife." Byron.

In the manner of a bigot.

A long plain double-breasted outside coat for women.

Bigoted. [Obs.] In a country more bigot than ours. Dryden.

Not narrow-minded, partial, or bigoted; liberal; as, catholic tastes.

, sperm (male) and egg (female); their union is called fertilization, and the resulting zygote an oöspore. In Zoöl., gamete is most commonly used of the sexual cells of certain Protozoa, though also extended to the germ cells of higher forms.

An affected elegance or euphuism of style, for which the Spanish poet Gongora y Argote (1561-1627), among others of his time, was noted.

Untractable; bigoted; obstinately and blindly or stupidly conservative. Milton. Carlyle.

njustly impatient of the opinion of those disagree with us; not tolerant; unforbearing; bigoted. Religion, harsh, intolerant, austere, Parent of manners like herself severe. Cowper.

, the parasites develop into gametes in the stomach of the insect. These conjugate, the zygote thus produced divides, forming spores, and eventually sporozoites, which, penetrating to the salivary glands of the mosquito, may be introduced into a new host. The attacks of the disease coincide with the dissolution of the…

Contracted; of limited scope; illiberal; bigoted; as, a narrow mind; narrow views. "A narrow understanding." Macaulay.

Pertaining to a sect, or to sects; peculiar to a sect; bigotedly attached to the tenets and interests of a denomination; as, sectarian principles or prejudices.

es, or of a people considered as distinct. The extreme section of one class consists of bigoted dotards, the extreme section of the other consists of shallow and reckless empirics. Macaulay.

boid spore, esp. one of those produced by division of the passive spores into which the zygote divides. The sporozoites reproduce asexually.