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The act of starving, or the state of being starved.

A word derived from a derivative, and not directly from the root; as, "friendliness" is a subderivative, being derived from "friendly", which is in turn a derivative from "friend."

The act of raising on high; elevation. Sir T. More.

an egg, or of the section of an egg, but having the inferior extremity broadest; nearly ovate.

Subovate. [R.]

To rouse; to excite. [Obs.] Daniel.

A salt of sylvic acid.

Sylvan. [R.]

To dress or smarten up; to spruce. --Tit`i*va"tion, Tit`ti*va"tion (#), n. [Both Humorous]

A laving or lading from one vessel to another. [Obs.] Holland.

A weaver's cutting instrument; for severing the loops of the pile threads of velvet.

Curved in three directions; as, a tricurvate spicule (see Illust. of Spicule).

Having three ribs or nerves extending unbranched from the base to the apex; -- said of a leaf. Gray.

Enervate. [Obs.]

A conserve made of grapes.

A genus of small spiral fresh-water gastropods having an operculum.

g at the edges without overlapping; -- said of the sepals or the petals of flowers in æstivation, and of leaves in vernation.

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.

, achieve. (6) L. a, ab, abs, from, as in avert. (7) Greek insep. prefix a without, or privative, not, as in abyss, atheist; akin to E. un-.

nt; a wandering from the right way; deviation from truth, rectitude, etc. Aberrancy of curvature (Geom.), the deviation of a curve from a circular form.