Crossword clues for anatomies
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anatomy \A*nat"o*my\, n.; pl. Anatomies. [F. anatomie, L. anatomia, Gr. ? dissection, fr. ? to cut up; ? + ? to cut.]
The art of dissecting, or artificially separating the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection.
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The science which treats of the structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization.
Let the muscles be well inserted and bound together, according to the knowledge of them which is given us by anatomy.
--Dryden.Note: ``Animal anatomy'' is sometimes called zomy; ``vegetable anatomy,'' phytotomy; ``human anatomy,'' anthropotomy.
Comparative anatomy compares the structure of different kinds and classes of animals.
A treatise or book on anatomy.
The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts; analysis; as, the anatomy of a discourse.
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A skeleton; anything anatomized or dissected, or which has the appearance of being so.
The anatomy of a little child, representing all parts thereof, is accounted a greater rarity than the skeleton of a man in full stature.
--Fuller.They brought one Pinch, a hungry, lean-faced villain, A mere anatomy.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of anatomy English)
Usage examples of "anatomies".
To live on land, creatures had to undergo wholesale revisions of their anatomies.
The latter must have been a prisoner in Katya's menagerie, but the marriage of anatomies had turned its sleek perfection into something rougher, uglier and entirely more bizarre.
And what other perverse miracles had the Devil's Country worked upon the anatomies of those who'd ventured there?
How many human eyes, other than her own, had snatched glimpses of their secret anatomies, down the passage of years?
The extraordinary anatomies, the dreaming spires of heads, the scales, the skirts, the claws, the clippers.
Amongst them were anatomies and colorations that must have made them outcasts in the Kingdom.
It was as if the splendours Suzanna had first seen on Lord Street, the haloes that sainted Human and Seerkind alike, had somehow been drawn inside them, for the skin of their limbs and faces was swollen and raw, bubbles of darkness scurrying around their anatomies like rats under sheets.
These new anatomies only confirmed what their training had long ago taught them: that they were unthinking animals, in thrall to the Law.
A hundred ways that needed only the unbound anatomies of light and space.
But while some big men nurture spirits expansive enough to fill their anatomies, Vasiliev seemed almost empty.
Marty was too intent on their locked anatomies to register her discomfort.
He thought of their locking anatomies-the physical act that was metaphor for this other unity.
All speak of the crowds who've passed this way, discarding these metal carapaces like tenderbodied crabs on the floors of seas, moulting off their past anatomies.
They started towards him, their anatomies finding some purchase in this shifting chaos.