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An unmanned balloon sent aloft for meteorological or aëronautic purposes.

A large estate; esp., one constituting a revenue district or dependency the native proprietor of which is responsible for the collection and payment of the public revenue due from it. [India]

A proprietor of a talook. [India]

See Telugu. D. O. Allen.

Not bloody. Dryden. Unbloody sacrifice. (a) A sacrifice in which no victim is slain. (b) (R. C. Ch.) The Mass.

To recall or retract, as a look. [R.] Richardson.

Not observed or foreseen; unexpected; -- generally with for. "Unlooked success." Denham. She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all. Pope.

Not looked for; unexpected; as, an unlooked-for event.

To make loose; to loosen; to set free. Shak.

To loosen; to unloose.

To look or gaze up. [Obs.]

See Virgalieu.

language spoken by this people. Used also adjectively. [Written also Wallons.] "A base Walloon . . . thrust Talbot with a spear." Shak. Walloon guard, the bodyguard of the Spanish monarch; -- so called because formerly consisting of Walloons.

A tool; an implement. [Scot.]

Having warm blood; -- applied especially to those animals, as birds and mammals, which have warm blood, or, more properly, the power of maintaining a nearly uniform temperature whatever the temperature of the surrounding air. See Homoiothermal.

A flood of water; an inundation.

The passage of blood or other fluid into parts not appropriate for it.

ing; hence, strongly opposed to; as, abhorrent thoughts. The persons most abhorrent from blood and treason. Burke. The arts of pleasure in despotic courts I spurn abhorrent. Clover.

ses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton.

To put an end to, or destroy, as a physical objects; to wipe out. [Archaic] And with thy blood abolish so reproachful blot. Spenser. His quick instinctive hand Caught at the hilt, as to abolish him. Tennyson.