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That part of the axis of a curved line which is intercepted between the ordinate and the normal.

A mountain range owing its origin to the progress of a geosynclinal, and ending in a catastrophe of displacement and upturning. Dana.

ndency; course; career. Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their away. Gray.

Suture of a tendon.

Honored for a long time; venerable, and worthy of honor, by reason of antiquity, or long continuance.

To countermand an order for. [R.]

Disorderly. [Obs.] Bp. Sanderson.

Disorderly; irregular; inordinate. [R.] -- Un*or"di*nate*ly, adv. [R.]

(Biol.), not having the different tissues and organs characteristic of living organisms, nor the power of growth and development; as, the unorganized ferments. See the Note under Ferment, n., 1.

Not yet caused to be, or to be made; as, possible inventions still unoriginated.

Without origin.

e name of the sixth tone in the model major scale (that in C), or the first tone of the minor scale, which is named after it the scale in A minor. The second string of the violin is tuned to the 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 nam…

; toto cut short; as, to abate a demand; to abate pride, zeal, hope. His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. Deut. xxxiv. 7.

A mark of dishonor on an escutcheon.

- said of authority, a trust, duty, right, etc. He abdicates all right to be his own governor. Burke. The understanding abdicates its functions. Froude.

A syllogism or form of argument in which the major is evident, but the minor is only probable.

reen 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.

Deviating from the ordinary or natural 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.

a denial; a renunciation. With abnegation of God, of his honor, and of religion, they may retain the friendship of the court. Knox.

Across; athwart. [Obs.] Nor iron bands aboard The Pontic Sea by their huge navy cast. Spenser.