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Fringed with long, pendent hair.

Taken by licking with the tongue. "Sirups and lambative medicines." Sir T. Browne.

of some deity; also, the wine or liquid thus poured out. Dryden. A heathen sacrifice or libation to the earth. Bacon.

Pertaining to libation.

A cooling periodical wind in the Isle of Cyprus, blowing from the northwest from eight o'clock, A. M., to the middle of the day or later.

Bordered, as when one color is surrounded by an edging of another.

Consisting of, or having, lobes; lobed; as, a lobate leaf.

As a lobe; so as to make a lobe; in a lobate manner.

One who excites contentions and quarrels. [Obs.]

Onanism; self-pollution.

diseases of the curculatory system, at Bad Nauheim, Germany, by G. Schott, consisting in baths in the natural mineral waters of that place, which are charged with carbonic acid, and the use of a graduated course of rest, physical exercises, massage, etc.; hence, any similar treatment using waters artificially charged…

Same as Columbate.

Any person connected with an army, or within the lines of an army, who does not make it his business to fight, as any one of the medical officers and their assistants, chaplains, and others; also, any of the citizens of a place occupied by an army; also, any one holding a similar position with respect to the navy.…

Bereaved; fatherless; childless. [Obs.]

The state of being orbate, or deprived of parents or children; privation, in general; bereavement. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Excessively fertile; bearing rank or noxious growths. [Obs.] "Overbattle grounds." Hooker.

To perturb. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

produced by some force additional to that which causes its regular motion; as, the perturbations of the planets are caused by their attraction on each other. Newcomb.

Of or pertaining to perturbation, esp. to the perturbations of the planets. "The perturbational theory." Sir J. Herschel.

Tending to cause perturbation; disturbing. Sir J. Herschel.