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hts. The persons most abhorrent from blood and treason. Burke. The arts of pleasure in despotic courts I spurn abhorrent. Clover.

ll call the . . . doctrine that living matter may be produced by not living matter, the hypothesis of abiogenesis. Huxley, 1870.

A red ocher used to darken mahogany and for making chloride of potassium.

trine of the absolute; the principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; despotism. The element of absolutism and prelacy was controlling. Palfrey.

Of or pertaining to absolutism; arbitrary; despotic; as, absolutist principles.

A unit; a single point or spot on a card or die; the card or die so marked; as, the ace of diamonds.

The potter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed. The system of warfare . . . which had already converted immense tracts into one universal aceldama. De Quincey.…

the union of acetic acid with a base or positive radical; as, acetate of lead, acetate of potash.

A complex, hypothetical radical, composed of two parts of carbon to three of hydrogen and one of oxygen. Its hydroxide is acetic acid.

Of or containing acryl, the hypothetical radical of which acrolein is the hydride; as, acrylic acid.

Existing in act or reality; really acted or acting; in fact; real; -- opposed to potential, possible, virtual, speculative, coceivable, theoretical, or nominal; as, the actual cost of goods; the actual case under discussion.

One of the largest African antelopes (Hippotragus, or Oryx, nasomaculatus).

Containing counsel or warning; hortatory; advisory. [Obs.] Potter.

pression of homage from two thirds of the conclave. [Pole] might have been chosen on the spot by adoration. Froude.

Impotence; sterility.

enlargement of the spleen produced by ague. -- Ague drop, a solution of the arsenite of potassa used for ague. -- Ague fit, a fit of the ague. Shak. -- Ague spell, a spell or charm against ague. Gay. -- Ague tree, the sassafras, -- sometimes so called from the use of its root formerly, in cases of ague. [Obs.]…

t or direct a missile weapon, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it; as, to aim at a fox, or at a target.

A hole to admit or discharge air; specifically, a spot in the ice not frozen over.

A white metallic alloy; which is made into spoons, forks, teapots, etc. British plate or German silver. See German silver, under German.

A soft ornamental terra-cotta pottery, sold in the biscuit state for decorating.