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Terminating abruptly, as if bitten off; premorse.

Bloodshot. [Obs.]

Purchased; not obtained or produced at home. Coleridge.

trious, or more distinguished; to add luster or splendor to. The present queen would brighten her character, if she would exert her authority to instill virtues into her people. Swift.

Insensibility. "The bruteness of nature." Emerson.

p. p. of Burst, v. i. [Obs.]

A colorlees or greenish oil extracted from cajuput.

of things connected with each other. I have . . . in no case sought to construct those catenæ of games, which it seems now the fashion of commentators to link together. C. J. Ellicott.

The curve formed by a rope or chain of uniform density and perfect flexibility, hanging freely between two points of suspension, not in the same vertical line.

Relating to a chain; like a chain; as, a catenary curve.

To connect, in a series of links or ties; to chain. E. Darwin.

ection of links or union of parts, as in a chain; a regular or connected series. See Concatenation. Sir T. Browne.

Consisting of little links or chains.

Of or relating to a hundred years. -- n.

Occurring once in every hundred years; centennial. "Centenary solemnities." Fuller.

ciated with, the commemoration of an event that happened a hundred years before; as, a centennial ode.

Colorado; -- a nickname alluding to the fact that it was admitted to the Union in the centennial year, 1876.

Once in a hundred years.

Centripetency.

Tendency toward the center.