Definition of extremity

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Extremity (n.) The utmost point; highest degree; most aggravated or intense form.

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Acrospore :: Acrospore (n.) A spore borne at the extremity of the cells of fructification in fungi.
Utterness :: Utterness (n.) The quality or state of being utter, or extreme; extremity; utmost; uttermost..
Abhor :: Abhor (v. t.) To shrink back with shuddering from; to regard with horror or detestation; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe.
Lift :: Lift (n.) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below; -- used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
Resection :: Resection (n.) The removal of the articular extremity of a bone, or of the ends of the bones in a false articulation..
Cincture :: Cincture (n.) The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column..
Ovate-subulate :: Ovate-subulate (a.) Having an ovate form, but with a subulate tip or extremity..
Term :: Term (n.) That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary.
Posterior :: Posterior (a.) At or toward the caudal extremity; caudal; -- in human anatomy often used for dorsal.
Top :: Top (n.) The highest part of anything; the upper end, edge, or extremity; the upper side or surface; summit; apex; vertex; cover; lid; as, the top of a spire; the top of a house; the top of a mountain; the top of the ground..
Horn :: Horn (n.) The curving extremity of the wing of an army or of a squadron drawn up in a crescentlike form.
Acrogenous :: Acrogenous (a.) Increasing by growth from the extremity; as, an acrogenous plant..
Digitated :: Digitated (a.) Having several leaflets arranged, like the fingers of the hand, at the extremity of a stem or petiole. Also, in general, characterized by digitation..
Step :: Step (v. i.) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
Antitropous :: Antitropous (a.) At the extremity most remote from the hilum, as the embryo, or inverted with respect to the seed, as the radicle..
Horn :: Horn (n.) One of the curved ends of a crescent; esp., an extremity or cusp of the moon when crescent-shaped..
Amphistomous :: Amphistomous (a.) Having a sucker at each extremity, as certain entozoa, by means of which they adhere..
Skirt :: Skirt (v. t.) To be on the border; to live near the border, or extremity..
Sine :: Sine (n.) The length of a perpendicular drawn from one extremity of an arc of a circle to the diameter drawn through the other extremity.
Cubit :: Cubit (n.) A measure of length, being the distance from the elbow to the extremity of the middle finger..
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