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ssageway; an interstice between the constituent particles or molecules of a body; as, the pores of stones.

Nearsighted; shortsighted; purblind. [Obs.] Bacon.

One who pores.

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

A spore of some algæ, which has male functions.

A sexual spore in which the sexes differ in size; -- opposed to isospore.

Doubting; skeptical. [Obs.] Cudworth.

A bacterial resting cell, -- formerly considered a spore, but now known to occur even in endosporous bacteria. -- Ar`thro*spor"ic (#), Ar*thros"po*rous (#), a.

One of the spores contained in the asci of lichens and fungi. [See Illust. of Ascus.]

A spore borne by a basidium. -- Ba*sid`i*o*spor"ous (, a.

The pore or opening leading into the cavity of invagination, or archenteron.

One of several spores growing in a series or chain, and produced by one of the fungi called brand.

A kind of spore formed in the conceptacles of red algæ. -- Car`po*spor"ic (, a.

A genus of delicate branching corals, made up of minute cells, belonging to the Bryozoa.

or substance; material; -- opposed to spiritual or immaterial. His omnipotence That to corporeal substance could add Speed almost spiritual. Milton. Corporeal property, such as may be seen and handled (as opposed to incorporeal, which can not be seen or handled, and exists only in contemplation). Mozley & W.…

Materialism. Cudworth.

One who denies the reality of spiritual existences; a materialist. Some corporealists pretended . . . to make a world without a God. Bp. Berkeley.

The state of being corporeal; corporeal existence.

In the body; in a bodily form or manner.

Corporeality; corporeity.