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One who keeps tally.

Same as Thermopile.

A leap across or from one thing to another. [R.] "An unadvised transiliency." Glanvill.

Having a large, protuberant belly, or one shaped like a tun; pot-bellied.

Inalienable; as, unalienable rights. Swift. -- Un*al"ien*a*bly, adv.

Not allied; having no ally; having no connection or relation; as, unallied species or genera.

The withholding of belief; doubt; incredulity; skepticism.

Not believed; disbelieved.

One who does not believe; an incredulous person; a doubter; a skeptic.

Not believing; incredulous; doubting; distrusting; skeptical.

To lie under; to rest beneath; to be situated under; as, a stratum of clay underlies the surface gravel.

An implied lien (that is, one not created by mortgage or other express agreement) given in equity to a vendor of lands for the unpaid purchase money.

See Virgalieu.

of delicious flavor; -- more properly called White Doyenné. [Written also virgaloo, vergalieu, vergaloo, etc.]

A popular song, or national air.

One who works at a willying machine.

Applied to knowledge which is based upon or derived from facts through induction or experiment; inductive or empirical.

Applied to knowledge and conceptions assumed, or presupposed, as prior to experience, in order to make experience rational or possible. A priori, that is, form these necessities of the mind or forms of thinking, which, though first revealed to us by experience, must yet have preëxisted in order to make experience possi…

Having a protuberant belly; pot-bellied. Gorgonius sits, abdominous and wan, Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan. Cowper.

A partial alienation of reason. "Occasional aberrations of intellect." Lingard. Whims, which at first are the aberrations of a single brain, pass with heat into epidemic form. I. Taylor.