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A salt of ulmic acid.

Farthest; most remote in space or time; extreme; last; final. My harbor, and my ultimate repose. Milton. Many actions apt to procure fame are not conductive to this our ultimate happiness. Addison.

uence; at last; in the end; as, afflictions often tend to correct immoral habits, and ultimately prove blessings.

Unanimous. [Obs.]

Not consummated; not accomplished. [Obs.] Dryden.

The act of underestimating; too low an estimate.

Not material; immaterial. [Obs.] Daniel.

To make a victim of; to sacrifice; to immolate. [Obs.] Bullokar.

A salt of wolframic acid; a tungstate.

Same as Yokefellow.

Pertaining to the study of inanimate things.

Near; not far from; -- determining approximately time, size, quantity. "To-morrow, about this time." Exod. ix. 18. "About my stature." Shak. He went out about the third hour. Matt. xx. 3.

A material used for grinding, as emery, sand, powdered glass, etc.

Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty. So absolute she seems, And in herself complete. Milton.

In living organisms, the process by which the materials of growth and nutrition are absorbed and conveyed to the tissues and organs.

ves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates.

Capable of being acclimated.

The process of becoming, or the state of being, acclimated, or habituated to a new climate; acclimatization.

The act of acclimatizing; the process of inuring to a new climate, or the state of being so inured. Darwin.

To inure or habituate to a climate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants.