1. Of or pertaining to a utricle, or utriculus; containing, or
furnished with, a utricle or utricles; utriculate; as, a utricular
plant.
2. Resembling a utricle or bag, whether large or minute; — said
especially with reference to the condition of certain substances, as
sulphur, selenium, etc., when condensed from the vaporous state and
deposited upon cold bodies, in which case they assume the form of small
globules filled with liquid.
||U*tric`u*la"ri*a (?), n. [NL.] (Bot.) A genus of aquatic flowering
||plants, in which the submersed leaves bear many little utricles, or
||ascidia. See Ascidium,
||
U*tric"u*late (?), a. Resembling a bladder; swollen like a bladder;
inflated; utricular. Dana.
U*tric"u*loid (?), a. [L. utriculus a little womb, a calycle + -oid.]
Resembling a bladder; utricular; utriculate. Dana.
U*tric"u*lus (?), n. [L., a little womb or matrix, a calycle.] (Anat.)
A little sac, or bag; a utricle; especially, a part of the membranous
labyrinth of the ear. See the Note under Ear.
U"tro- (?). A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection
with, or relation to, the uterus; as in utro-ovarian.
Ut"ter (?), a. [OE. utter, originally the same word as outer. See Out,
and cf. Outer, Utmost.]
1. Outer. "Thine utter eyen." Chaucer. [Obs.] "By him a shirt and utter
mantle laid." Chapman.
As doth an hidden moth The inner garment fret, not th' utter touch.
Spenser.
2. Situated on the outside, or extreme limit; remote from the center;
outer. [Obs.]
Through utter and through middle darkness borne.
Milton.
The very utter part pf Saint Adelmes point is five miles from Sandwich.
Holinshed.
3. Complete; perfect; total; entire; absolute; as, utter ruin; utter
darkness.
They . . . are utter strangers to all those anxious thoughts which
disquiet mankind.
Atterbury.
4. Peremptory; unconditional; unqualified; final; as, an utter refusal
or denial. Clarendon.
Utter bar (Law), the whole body of junior barristers. See Outer bar,
under 1st Outer. [Eng.] — Utter barrister (Law), one recently admitted
as barrister, who is accustomed to plead without, or outside, the bar,
as distinguished from the benchers, who are sometimes permitted to
plead within the bar. [Eng.] Cowell.
Ut"ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Uttered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Uttering.]
[OE. outren, freq. of outen to utter, put out, AS. tian to put out,
eject, fr. t out. √198. See Out, and cf. Utter, a.]