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alent; -- said of a base or radical as capable of saturating two acid monad radicals or a dibasic acid. Cf. Dibasic, a., and Biacid.

uito, etc. They have a suctorial proboscis, often including two pairs of sharp organs (mandibles and maxillæ) with which they pierce the skin of animals. They undergo a complete metamorphosis, their larvæ (called maggots) being usually without feet.

s no direct evidence that is not circumstantial, or dependent on circumstances for its credibility. Wharton. -- Direct examination (Law), the first examination of a witness in the orderly course, upon the merits. Abbott. -- Direct fire (Mil.), fire, the direction of which is perpendicular to the line of troops or to…

To discount. See Discount. Hudibras.

To deprive of credibility; to destroy confidence or trust in; to cause disbelief in the accuracy or authority of. An occasion might be given to the . . . papists of discrediting our common English Bible. Strype.

To awaken from a trance or an enchantment. Hudibras.

A feat. [Obs.] See Do, n. Hudibras.

A sort of loose or irregular verse; mean or undignified poetry. Doggerel like that of Hudibras. Addison. The ill-spelt lines of doggerel in which he expressed his reverence for the brave sufferers. Macaulay.

The quality or rank of a don, gentleman, or knight. Hudibras.

A genus of nudibranchiate mollusks having a wreath of branchiæ on the back.

To fall suddenly into water. Hudibras.

the ground; to become wet or dirty by being dragged or trailed in the mud or wet grass. Hudibras.

A slut; a vagabond wench. Same as Drossel. [Obs.] Hudibras.

To feed, attend, and bring up without the breast. Hudibras.

A blow. [R.] Hudibras.

A dudgeon-hafted dagger; a dagger. Hudibras.

despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural. March slowly on in solemn dump. Hudibras. Doleful dumps the mind oppress. Shak. I was musing in the midst of my dumps. Bunyan.

Capable of being eaten; fit to be eaten; proper for food; esculent; edible. -- n.

A genus of echinoderms, including the common edible sea urchin of Europe.

Edible. [Obs.] "Edulious pulses." Sir T. Browne.