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To undervalue. [Obs.]

To divest of the rank or authority of queen. Shak.

Not seen or discovered.

Deprived of a spleen.

A kind of cloth, usually cotton, made in imitation of velvet; cotton velvet.

[Obs. or Poetic] Spenser. Milton. I have lost more than thou wenest. Chaucer. For well I ween, Never before in the bowers of light Had the form of an earthly fay been seen. J. R. Drake. Though never a dream the roses sent Of science or love's compliment, I ween they smelt as sweet. Mrs. Browning.

The meadow pipit. [Prov. Eng.]

Having seen much; hence, accomplished; experienced. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl. Well-seen in arms and proved in many a fight. Spenser.

A quantity; a goodly number. [Scot.] "A wheen other dogs." Sir W. Scott.

A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter.

Yester-evening; yesternight; last night. [R. or Scot.] Yestreen I did not know How largely I could live. Bp. Coxe.

he A in the treble staff. -- A sharp (A#) is the name of a musical tone intermediate between A and B. -- A flat (A) is the name of a tone intermediate between A and G.

The belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis. Also, the cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the stomach, bowels, and other viscera. In man, often restricted to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvi…

An evergreen shrub (Hibiscus -- formerly Abelmoschus- moschatus), of the East and West Indies and Northern Africa, whose musky seeds are used in perfumery and to flavor coffee; -- sometimes called musk mallow.

The European siskin (Carduelis spinus), a small green and yellow finch, related to the goldfinch.

atural type; exceptional; abnormal. The more aberrant any form is, the greater must have been the number of connecting forms which, on my theory, have been exterminated. Darwin.

The joint or interstice between stones, to be filled with mortar. Gwilt.

an acquittal and remission of his punishment. Halifax was absolved by a majority of fourteen. Macaulay.

tym: [L., without this.] (Law) The technical words of denial used in traversing what has been alleged, and is repeated.

est or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects. The young stranger had been abstracted and silent. Blackw. Mag.