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Examination of the abdomen to detect abdominal disease.

An evergreen shrub (Hibiscus -- formerly Abelmoschus- moschatus), of the East and West Indies and Northern Africa, whose musky seeds are used in perfumery and to flavor coffee; -- sometimes called musk mallow.

Same as Acaulescent.

to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of. [Obs.] "So much [of Lapland] as accosts the sea." Fuller.

Approachable; affable. [R.] Hawthorne.

Supported on both sides by other charges; also, side by side.

Having the nature of chaff; chaffy.

Full of heaps. [R.] Bailey.

Sour like vinegar; acetous.

The quality of being acetous; sourness.

Consisting of acini, or minute granular concretions; as, acinose or acinous glands. Kirwan.

Being without joints; jointless.

A denial of the existence of the universe as distinct from God.

One who denies the existence of the universe, or of a universe as distinct from God. G. H. Lewes.

The sprout at the end of a seed when it begins to germinate; the plumule in germination; -- so called from its spiral form.

A spore borne at the extremity of the cells of fructification in fungi.

Having acrospores.

From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river. Dryden. To come across, to come upon or meet incidentally. Freeman. -- To go across the country, to go by a direct course across a region without following the roads.

A composition, usually in verse, in which the first or the last letters of the lines, or certain other letters, taken in order, form a name, word, phrase, or motto.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, acrostics.