endoskeleton

[Gr. end on within, and Eng. skeleton (q. v.).] Anat.: The internal bony and cartilaginous framework of the body. It is generally called simply the skeleton, but the prefix end odist in crustacea, and other animals. *(1) To place or put on the back of; to load, to guishes it from the exoskeleton, found in insects, burden. "Chariots or elephants endorst with towers Of archers." Milton: P. R. , iii. 329. (2) To furnish with a back. "He is at this time endorsing a set of seven volumes in puce."-Southey: Letters , iv. 99. *(3) To put on, to invest with. "They endorsed their armors." Knight of the Sea , in Todd's Spenser, vi. 294. (4) In the same sense as II. (5) To write on the back of a document, as a note of the contents, . "What he has endorsed on the bonds."-Burke: Com mittee on Affairs of India . *(6) To write, inscribe, cut, or engrave. "Her name on every tree I will endorse." Spenser: Colin Clout, 632. 2. Fig .: To acknowledge, to approve, to sanction, to ratify; as, to endorse a statement. II. Commerce and Banking : IMG:content-0980.png:[ocr errors]