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pavement (medicine)


pavement


That with which anythingis paved; a floor or covering of solid material, laid so as to make a hard and convenient surface for Travel; a paved road or sidewalk; a decorative interior floor of tiles or coloured bricks. "The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold.

<zoology> " (Milton) Pavement teeth, flattened teeth which in certain fishes, as the skates and cestracionts, are arranged side by side, like tiles in a pavement.

Origin: F, fr. LL. Pavamentum, L. Pavimentum. See Pave.

Source: Websters Dictionary


animal (iou)



animal noun & adjective. ME.
[As adjective from Old & mod. French, or Latin animalis having vital breath, (in medieval Latin) bestial, from ANIMA: see -AL1; partly attrib. use of the noun. As noun ult. from Latin animal for animale use as noun of neut. adjective.]
A. noun. A living organism having sensation and voluntary motion, without rigid cell walls, and dependent on organic substances for Food; spec. (a) an animal Other than a human being; (b) colloq. a land animal as opp. to a fish or a bird; (c) colloq. a four-legged animal as opp., e.g., to an insect or a worm. Also, a brutish person, a person regarded as without human attributes. ME.
no such animal colloq. no such person or thing. the animal the animal Nature in humans.
b. adjective.
Connected with sensation, innervation, or will. LME-L18.
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of animals; not intellectual, moral, or spiritual. LME.
Embryology. Designating or pertaining to that pole of the ovum or embryo that contains the more rapidly dividing cells in the early stages of development. Opp. vegetal, vegetative. M19.
Special collocations: animal black, animal charcoal charcoal obtained from calcined bones. animal electricity: that generated within animals, e.g. as nerve impulses. animal flower a sea anemone. animal husbandry: see HUSBANDRY noun 2. animal kingdom animals collectively, as one of the three (or more) major divisions of the natural world. animal liberation the freeing of animals from exploitation by humans. animal magnetism Hist. mesmerism. animal oil: see OIL noun. animal rights the natural rights of animals to live a free life. animal spirits (a) the supposed principle of sensation and voluntary motion; (b) nerve, physical courage; (c) natural exuberance.
ani'malic adjective (rare) L17.
animally adverb E17.