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Any plant growing on dacayed animal or vegetable matter, as most fungi and some flowering plants with no green color, as the Indian pipe.

Feeding or growing upon decaying anomal or vegetable matter; pertaining to a saprophyte or the saprophytes.

State or fact of being saprophytic.

Propagating by one's self or by itself.

Overplus or excess of proportion. Sir K. Digby.

A propeller screw placed in front of the supporting planes of an aëroplane instead of behind them, so that it exerts a pull instead of a push. Hence, Tractor monoplane, Tractor biplane, etc.

Inappropriate; unsuitable.

Not specially appropriate; having not special application. J. Warton.

To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold. Underprop the head that bears the crown. Fenton.

Of inadequate or inferior proportions; small; poor. Scanty and underproportioned returns of civility. Collier.

One who, or that which, underprops or supports.

To remove a prop or props from; to deprive of support.

Not proper or peculiar; improper. [Obs.] -- Un*prop"er*ly, adv. [Obs.]

To prop up. Donne.

Characterizing that kind of reasoning which derives propositions from the observation of facts, or by generalizations from facts arrives at principles and definitions, or infers causes from effects. This is the reverse of a priori reasoning.

sh all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against.

The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.

Inability to coördinate muscular actions properly in walking. - - A*ba"sic (#), a.

t. (b) (Eng. Law) To diminish; to reduce. Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets. To abate a tax, to remit it either wholly or in part.

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