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To disapprove of; to disallow. [Obs.]

The act of disapproving; disapprobation.

Implying, or tending to, improbation.

To sit, as on eggs for hatching; to brood; to brood upon, or keep warm, as eggs, for the purpose of hatching.

The development of a disease from its causes, or its period of incubation. (See below.)

Of or pertaining to incubation, or to the period of incubation.

That which incubates, especially, an apparatus by means of which eggs are hatched by artificial heat.

Serving for incubation.

Unequally lobed; cut into lobes of different shapes or sizes.

In the form of a globe or sphere; -- applied to nebulous matter collected into a sphere by the force of gravitation.

The Waldenses; -- so called from their peculiary cut or marked sabots, or shoes.

Combat. [Obs.] Daniel.

The introduction of a tube into an organ to keep it open, as into the larynx in croup.

A line connecting the points on the surface of the earth where a certain temperature is found at the same depth.

Of or pertaining to an isobathytherm; possessing or indicating the same temperature at the same depth.

he reception or the giving out of equal quantities of heat by a substance. Rankine. Isodiabatic lines or curves, a pair of lines or curves exhibiting, on a diagram of energy, the law of variation of the pressure and density of a fluid, the one during the lowering, and the other during the raising, of its temperature, w…

A line drawn through points of equal temperature in a vertical section of the ocean.

Of or pertaining to an isothermobath; possessing or indicating equal temperatures in a vertical section, as of the ocean.

A scolding; a hand, tedious reproof. [Law] Grose.

Worn out with journeying. [Obs.] Shak.