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Bearing something like an open umbrella.

Having the form of anything that serves to shade, as a tree top, an umbrella, and the like; specifically (Bot.), having the form of an umbrella; umbrella-shaped.

A subordinate cliff on a shore, consisting of material that has fallen from the higher cliff above.

To disqualify; to unfit. Swift.

To lift or raise aloft; to raise; to elevate; as, to uplift the arm; to uplift a rock. Cowper. Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed. Milton.

Carrying or bearing sails. [Obs.] "Veliferous chariots." Evelyn.

The act of vilifying or defaming; abuse. South.

One who vilifies or defames.

To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to disgrace. [R.] When themselves they vilified To serve ungoverned appetite. Milton.

rance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform.

An officer of the customs, whose duty it is to search vessels. [Eng.]

See Wyclifite.

A follower of Wyclif, the English reformer; a Lollard.

Resembling the

nd of divorce which does not dissolve the marriage bond, but merely authorizes a separate life of the husband and wife. Abbott.

d for ornamental purposes; the sea-ear. Several large species are found on the coast of California, clinging closely to the rocks.

To cast down or reduce low or lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, or estimation of worthiness; to depress; to humble; to degrade. Whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased. Luke xiv. ll.

A volatile oil distilled from the resin or balsam of the nut pine (Pinus sabiniana) of California.

The supposed origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; -- called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis. I shall call the . . . doctrine that living matter may be produced by not living matter, the hypothesis of abiogen…

One who believes that life can be produced independently of antecedent. Huxley.