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apart from the other properties which constitute it; -- opposed to Ant: concrete; as, honesty is an abstract word. J. S. Mill.

as, the accession of the house of Stuart; -- applied especially to the epoch of a new dynasty.

Having the style spring from the base, instead of from the apex, as is the case in certain ovaries.

from the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the River Styx.

d. -- Act of grace, an expression often used to designate an act declaring pardon or amnesty to numerous offenders, as at the beginning of a new reign. -- Act of indemnity, a statute passed for the protection of those who have committed some illegal act subjecting them to penalties. Abbott. -- Act in pais, a thing d…

In a dry or thirsty condition. "A man that is adry." Burton.

Peculiar appearance; apparent character; semblance; manner; style. It was communicated with the air of a secret. Pope.

r of approaching danger; agitated; disturbed; as, an alarmed neighborhood; an alarmed modesty. The white pavilions rose and fell On the alarmed air. Longfellow.

Made or decorated after the fanciful style of the ornamentation in the Alhambra, which affords an unusually fine exhibition of Saracenic or Arabesque architecture.

s and Polyporus) which grows on old trees; German tinder; punk. It has been employed as a styptic by surgeons, but its common use is as tinder, for which purpose it is prepared by soaking it in a strong solution of niter. Ure.

In the style of an amateur; superficial or defective like the work of an amateur. -- Am`a*teur"ish*ly, adv. -- Am`a*teur"ish*ness, n.

inging from, characterized by, or indicating, ambition; showy; aspiring; as, an ambitious style. A giant statue . . . Pushed by a wild and artless race, From off wide, ambitious base. Collins.

Pertaining to a walk. [R.] The princess of whom his majesty had an ambulatory view in his travels. Sir H. Wotton.

Done out of love. [Obs.] Lay an amiable siege to the honesty of this Ford's wife. Shak.

In a soft, tender, amatory style.

or character; anomalous. Scientific treatises . . . are not seldom rude and amorphous in style. Hare. -- A*mor"phous*ly, adv. -- A*mor"phous*ness, n.

logical sense; in accordance with analogy; by way of similitude. A prince is analogically styled a pilot, being to the state as a pilot is to the vessel. Berkeley.

Of or pertaining to anaplasty.

Styptic. [Obs.] Coxe.

Pertaining to a process or a style of printing from characters in relief on zinc plates.