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ngels are devoid of quantity and dimension, and that they have nothing to do with grosser locality. Glanvill.

Want of locality or place. [R.] Cudworth.

The portion of air in any locality, or affected by a special physical or sanitary condition; as, the atmosphere of the room; a moist or noxious atmosphere.

A weight used in the East, varying according to the locality; in Turkey, the greater batman is about 157 pounds, the lesser only a fourth of this; at Aleppo and Smyrna, the batman is 17 pounds. Simmonds.

, and red, in which the yellow usually prevails. It is also called Siena marble, from its locality.

A geographical antiquary; one who investigates the locality of ancient places.

ws of distribution of living organisms over the earth's surface as to latitude, altitude, locality, etc. Its distribution or chorology. Huxley.

Overfullness of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing other morbid symptoms); local hyperas, arterial congestion; venous congestion; congestion of the lungs.

Region; locality. [Low]

eleven men selected to play on one side in a match, as the representatives of a club or a locality; as, the all-England eleven.

Peculiar to a district or particular locality, or class of persons; as, an endemic disease.

Causing fever; as, a febriferous locality.

The complete system of vegetable species growing without cultivation in a given locality, region, or period; a list or description of, or treatise on, such plants.

ng to a certain country; born in or belonging to another country, nation, sovereignty, or locality; as, a foreign language; foreign fruits. "Domestic and foreign writers." Atterbury. Hail, foreign wonder! Whom certain these rough shades did never breed. Milton.

them, accumulate by being washed down from the hills, and thus indicate to the miners the locality of the veins.

The natural abode, locality or region of an animal or plant.

The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat; as, the home of the pine. Her eyes are homes of silent prayer. Tennyson. Flandria, by plenty made the home of war. Prior.

To put for safe keeping in the interior of a place or country; to confine to one locality; as, to intern troops which have fled for refuge to a neutral country.

A principle, practice, form of speech, or other thing of local use, or limited to a locality.

Situation; place; locality. Locke.