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an important end accomplished; as, legislatures, courts, armies, taxgatherers, etc., are organs of government.

A kind of transparent light muslin.

Of or pertaining to an organ or its functions, or to objects composed of organs; consisting of organs, or containing them; as, the organic structure of animals and plants; exhibiting characters peculiar to living organisms; as, organic bodies, organic life, organic remains. Cf. Inorganic.

Organic. The organical structure of human bodies, whereby they live and move. Bentley.

In an organic manner; by means of organs or with reference to organic functions; hence, fundamentally. Gladstone.

The quality or state of being organic.

rine of the localization of disease, or which refers it always to a material lesion of an organ. Dunglison.

Making an organic or organized structure; producing an organism; acting through, or resulting from, organs. Prof. Park.

Organic structure; organization. "The advantageous organism of the eye." Grew.

One who plays on the organ.

Any one of several South American wrens, noted for the sweetness of their song.

Organism. [R.]

Quality of being organizable; capability of being organized.

Capable of being organized; esp. (Biol.), capable of being formed into living tissue; as, organizable matter.

The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body. "The first organization of the general government." Pickering.

To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being; organized matter; -- in this sense used chiefly in the past participle. These nobler faculties of the mind, matter organized could never produce. Ray.

One who organizes.

A large kind of sea fish; the orgeis.

A combining form denoting relation to, or connection with, an organ or organs.

arbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen, which are especially characteristic ingredients of organic compounds; also, by extension, to other elements sometimes found in the same connection; as sulphur, phosphorus, etc.