a. [ L. capitellum, dim. of caput head. ] (Bot.) Having a very small knoblike termination, or collected into minute capitula. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ NL., prob. fr. L. clitellae a packsadle. ] (Zool.) A thickened glandular portion of the body of the adult earthworm, consisting of several united segments modified for reproductive purposes. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a definite manner; with precision; precisely; determinately. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. Hopelessly; despairingly; in the manner of one ruined;
adv. In expedite manner; expeditiously. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In an exquisite manner or degree;
To a sensitive observer there was something exquisitely painful in it. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Infinite. [ Obs. ] Sir T. browne. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a finite manner or degree. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. as hard as granite.
adv. Hypocritically. [ R. ] Sylvester. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In an indefinite manner or degree; without any settled limitation; vaguely; not with certainty or exactness;
If the world be indefinitely extended, that is, so far as no human intellect can fancy any bound of it. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]
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prop. n.
prop. n. A genus of low slender herbs of North America and Northeast Asia having flowers with trifid or pinnatifid petals.
adv. In a situation to face each other; in an opposite manner or direction; adversely. [ 1913 Webster ]
Winds from all quarters oppositely blow. May. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. L. orbis an orb + tela a web. ] (Zool.) A division of spiders, including those that make geometrical webs, as the garden spider, or Epeira. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Pref. peri- + vitelline. ] (Biol.) Situated around the vitellus, or between the vitellus and zona pellucida of an ovum. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv.
adv. In four parts. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Without respite. Baxter. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. rete a net + tela a web. ] (Zool.) A group of spiders which spin irregular webs; -- called also
adv. In a tripartite manner. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ NL., dim fr. L. turris tower. ] (Zool.) Any spiral marine gastropod belonging to
a. [ Turritella + -oid. ] (Zool.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the turritellas. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. vitellus a little calf, the yolk of an egg. ] (Biol.) Vitelline. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Zool.) Producing yolk, or vitelline substance; -- applied to certain cells (also called nutritive, or yolk, cells) formed in the ovaries of many insects, and supposed to supply nutriment to the developing ova. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ See Vitellus. ] (Physiol. Chem.) An albuminous body, belonging to the class of globulins, obtained from yolk of egg, of which it is the chief proteid constituent, and from the seeds of many plants. From the latter it can be separated in crystalline form. [ 1913 Webster ]
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a. [ L. vitellus the yolk of an egg. ] (Biol.) Of or pertaining to the yolk of eggs;
n. [ See Vitellus, and -gen. ] (Zool.) A gland secreting the yolk of the eggs in trematodes, turbellarians, and some other helminths. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ L., the yolk of an egg. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Like, or coming near to, white. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Blameless. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]