Definition of external

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External (a.) Outwardly perceptible; visible; physical or corporeal, as distinguished from mental or moral..

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Deface :: Deface (v. t.) To destroy or mar the face or external appearance of; to disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or obliterating important features or portions of; as, to deface a monument; to deface an edifice; to deface writing; to deface a note, deed, or bond; to deface a record..
Placoganoidei :: Placoganoidei (n. pl.) A division of ganoid fishes including those that have large external bony plates and a cartilaginous skeleton.
Formal :: Formal (a.) Having the form or appearance without the substance or essence; external; as, formal duty; formal worship; formal courtesy, etc..
Rubefacient :: Rubefacient (n.) An external application which produces redness of the skin.
Weak :: Weak (v. i.) Not able to resist external force or onset; easily subdued or overcome; as, a weak barrier; as, a weak fortress..
Exterior :: Exterior (a.) External; on the outside; without the limits of; extrinsic; as, an object exterior to a man, opposed to what is within, or in his mind..
Gynandromorphism :: Gynandromorphism (n.) An abnormal condition of certain animals, in which one side has the external characters of the male, and the other those of the female..
Feeling :: Feeling (n.) The sense by which the mind, through certain nerves of the body, perceives external objects, or certain states of the body itself; that one of the five senses which resides in the general nerves of sensation distributed over the body, especially in its surface; the sense of touch; nervous sensibility to external objects..
Irritation :: Irritation (n.) The act of exciting, or the condition of being excited to action, by stimulation; -- as, the condition of an organ of sense, when its nerve is affected by some external body; esp., the act of exciting muscle fibers to contraction, by artificial stimulation; as, the irritation of a motor nerve by electricity; also, the condition of a muscle and nerve, under such stimulation..
Pharisaism :: Pharisaism (n.) Rigid observance of external forms of religion, without genuine piety; hypocrisy in religion; a censorious, self-righteous spirit in matters of morals or manners..
Endogenous :: Endogenous (a.) Increasing by internal growth and elongation at the summit, instead of externally, and having no distinction of pith, wood, and bark, as the rattan, the palm, the cornstalk..
Labrum :: Labrum (n.) The external margin of the aperture of a shell. See Univalve.
Signature :: Signature (v. t.) A resemblance between the external characters of a disease and those of some physical agent, for instance, that existing between the red skin of scarlet fever and a red cloth; -- supposed to indicate this agent in the treatment of the disease..
Exoterical :: Exoterical (a.) External; public; suitable to be imparted to the public; hence, capable of being readily or fully comprehended; -- opposed to esoteric, or secret..
Homage :: Homage (n.) Respect or reverential regard; deference; especially, respect paid by external action; obeisance..
Intestine :: Intestine (a.) Internal; inward; -- opposed to external.
Vision :: Vision (v.) The act of seeing external objects; actual sight.
Verge :: Verge (n.) The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc. See Illustration in Appendix..
Externalism :: Externalism (n.) That philosophy or doctrine which recognizes or deals only with externals, or objects of sense perception; positivism; phenomenalism..
Epicarp :: Epicarp () The external or outermost layer of a fructified or ripened ovary. See Illust. under Endocarp.
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