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Covered with knobby or wartlike prominences; knobbed.

A printer. T. Warton.

Not specially appropriate; having not special application. J. Warton.

Absence of reverse; frankness; freedom of communication. T. Warton.

Of or pertaining to prophecy; prophetic. T. Warton.

To grow exuberantly; to produce fleshy or warty outgrowths; as, a vegetating papule.

(Zoöl.) A wartlike elevation or roughness.

Shaped like a wart or warts.

Covered with wartlike elevations; tuberculate; warty; verrucous; as, a verrucose capsule.

An endemic disease occurring in the Andes in Peru, characterized by warty tumors which ulcerate and bleed. It is probably due to a special bacillus, and is often fatal.

Near; vicine. T. Warton. Vicinal planes (Min.), subordinate planes on a crystal, which are very near to the fundamental planes in angles, and sometimes take their place. They have in general very complex symbols.

A yardland, or measure of land varying from fifteen to forty acres. [Obs.] T. Warton.

A wart. [Obs.] Chaucer.

d will, for this last word expresses the power of mind of which "volition" is the act. Stewart. Will is an ambiguous word, being sometimes put for the faculty of willing; sometimes for the act of that faculty, besides [having] other meanings. But "volition" always signifies the act of willing, and nothing else. Reid. A…