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LABYRINTH n. 7 definitions

difficult to find the way from the interior to the entrance; as, the Egyptian and Cretan labyrinths.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a labyrinth; intricate; labyrinthian.

LABYRINTHIAN a.

Intricately winding; like a labyrinth; perplexed; labyrinthal.

LABYRINTHIBRANCH a. 2 definitions

Of or pertaining to the Labyrinthici. -- n.

LABYRINTHIC; LABYRINTHICAL a.

Like or pertaining to a labyrinth.

LABYRINTHICI n.

An order of teleostean fishes, including the Anabas, or climbing perch, and other allied fishes.

LABYRINTHIFORM a.

Having the form of a labyrinth; intricate.

LABYRINTHINE a.

Pertaining to, or like, a labyrinth; labyrinthal.

LABYRINTHODON n.

sic period, having bony plates on the under side of the body. It is the type of the order Labyrinthodonta. Called also Mastodonsaurus.

LABYRINTHODONT a. 2 definitions

Of or pertaining to the Labyrinthodonta. -- n.

LABYRINTHODONTA n.

An extinct order of Amphibia, including the typical genus Labyrinthodon, and many other allied forms, from the Carboniferous, Permian, and Triassic formations. By recent writers they are divided into two or more orders. See Stegocephala.

To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze. [Obs.] A labyrinth to amaze his foes. Shak.

CHEIROTHERIUM n.

prints rudely resembling impressions of the human hand, and believed to have been made by labyrinthodont reptiles. See Illustration in Appendix.

. n. of Climb. Climbing fern. See under Fern. -- Climbing perch. (Zoöl.) See Anabas, and Labyrinthici.

An appendage of the labyrinth of the internal ear, which is elongated and coiled into a spiral in mammals. See Ear.

continental coalition. Macaulay. No former king had involved himself so frequently in the labyrinth of continental alliances. Hallam.

DISCOMFORTABLE a.

Destitute of comfort; uncomfortable. [R.] A labyrinth of little discomfortable garrets. Thackeray. -- Dis*com"fort*a*ble*ness, n. [Obs.]

isentangle truth from error. Stewart. To extricate and disentangle themselves out of this labyrinth. Clarendon. A mind free and disentangled from all corporeal mixtures. Bp. Stillingfleet.

The watery fluid contained in the membranous labyrinth of the internal ear.

xtricate a person from debt, peril, etc. We had now extricated ourselves from the various labyrinths and defiles. Eustance.