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To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to become sterile.

Rendered abortive or sterile; undeveloped; checked in normal development at a very early stage; as, spines are aborted branches. The eyes of the cirripeds are more or less aborted in their mature state. Owen.

hen a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, "He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity -- but I need say no more."

Withdraw; separate. [Obs.] The more abstract . . . we are from the body. Norris.

To dishonor. "Shall flight abuse your name" Shak.

To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot.

t American rocks known to be fossiliferous. See Geology. -- Acadian owl (Zoöl.), a small North American owl (Nyctule Acadica); the saw-whet.

A genus of herbaceous prickly plants, found in the south of Europe, Asia Minor, and India; bear's-breech.

produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.

at which is accumulated; as, an accumulation of earth, of sand, of evils, of wealth, of honors.

h a crime or with a lighter offense. We come not by the way of accusation To taint that honor every good tongue blesses. Shak.

icially or by a public process; - - with of; as, to accuse one of a high crime or misdemeanor. Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me. Acts xxiv. 13. We are accused of having persuaded Austria and Sardinia to lay down their arms. Macaulay.

Naked; having no floral envelope, neither calyx nor corolla.

One who has received the highest of the four minor orders in the Catholic church, being ordained to carry the wine and water and the lights at the Mass.

my son Paris' love. Shak. I must acquaint you that I have received New dated letters from Northumberland. Shak.

thing done; a deed; an enterprise. (pl.): Habitual deeds; hence, conduct; behavior; demeanor. The Lord is a Good of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed. 1 Sam. ii. 3.

Actively. [Obs.] "Neither actually . . . nor passively." Fuller.

gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth. D. C. Eaton.

Something added to a coat of arms, as a mark of honor; -- opposed to abatement. Vector addition (Geom.), that kind of addition of two lines, or vectors, AB and BC, by which their sum is regarded as the line, or vector, AC.

A governor of a province; a commander. Prescott.