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Of or pertaining to the state of a widow; widowed. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

Divided, shared, or participated in, in common with others. [R.] Milton.

By dividing. [R.]

be divided; existing as one entity, or distinct being or object; single; one; as, an individual man, animal, or city. Mind has a being of its own, distinct from that of all other things, and is pure, unmingled, individual substance. A. Tucker. United as one individual soul. Milton.

The quality of being individual; individuality; personality.

Of or pertaining to the individual or individualism. London Athenæum.

The quality or state of being individual or constituting an individual; separate or distinct existence; oneness; unity. Arbuthnot. They possess separate individualities. H. Spencer.

The act of individualizing; the state of being individualized; individuation.

The mark as an individual, or to distinguish from others by peculiar properties; to invest with individuality. The peculiarities which individualize and distinguish the humor of Addison. N. Drake.

One who individualizes.

In an individual manner or relation; as individuals; separately; each by itself. "Individually or collectively." Burke. How should that subsist solitarily by itself which hath no substance, but individually the very same whereby others subsist with it Hooker.

A division of that which is individual. An individual can not branch itself into subindividuals. Milton.

Indivisible. [Obs.] True courage and courtesy are undividual companions. Fuller.

blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respect like the individual from which it proceeds.

Of or pertaining to the Acrita. -- n. An individual of the Acrita.

The upper surface of the toes, individually.

ss good to man it will be found, if she must, at all adventures, be fastened upon him individually. Milton.

ext in order to the mayor and having a legislative function. They may, in some cases, individually exercise some magisterial and administrative functions.

:" i. e., burst in two, or asunder. -- All along. See under Along. -- All and some, individually and collectively, one and all. [Obs.] "Displeased all and some." Fairfax. -- All but. (a) Scarcely; not even. [Obs.] Shak. (b) Almost; nearly. "The fine arts were all but proscribed." Macaulay. -- All hollow, entirely,…

To distribute, or parcel out in parts or portions; or to distribute to each individual concerned; to assign as a share or lot; to set apart as one's share; to bestow on; to grant; to appoint; as, let every man be contented with that which Providence allots him. Ten years I will allot to the attainment of knowledge. Joh…