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An animal which is the sole product of a single egg; -- opposed to zooid. H. Spencer.

Of or pertaining to animals; obtained from animal substances.

One of the segments of the body of an articulate animal.

The laws animal life, or the science which treats of the phenomena of animal life, their causes and relations.

Same as Zoönite.

through or over in various directions; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout. Lampoons . . . were handed about the coffeehouses. Macaulay. Roving still about the world. Milton.

To finish; to accomplish. [Obs.] The work begun, how soon absolved. Milton.

elm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to use up; to include. "Dark oblivion soon absorbs them all." Cowper. The large cities absorb the wealth and fashion. W. Irving.

erving as the instrument of abuse; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous. "An abusive lampoon." Johnson.

in itself a principle of acceleration. I. Taylor. (Astr. & Physics.) Acceleration of the moon, the increase of the moon's mean motion in its orbit, in consequence of which its period of revolution is now shorter than in ancient times. -- Acceleration and retardation of the tides. See Priming of the tides, under Primin…

e rays of the sun darting through a cloud, or between the leaves of trees; the effect of moonlight, candlelight, or burning bodies. Fairholt.

to render accomplished; to polish. The armorers accomplishing the knights. Shak. It [the moon] is fully accomplished for all those ends to which Providence did appoint it. Wilkins. These qualities . . . go to accomplish a perfect woman. Cowden Clarke.

To prepare or make ready. [Obs.] His foe was soon addressed. Spenser. Turnus addressed his men to single fight. Dryden. The five foolish virgins addressed themselves at the noise of the bridegroom's coming. Jer. Taylor.

or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone.

A dirigible balloon.

An aërial navigator; a balloonist.

The science or art of ascending and sailing in the air, as by means of a balloon; aërial navigation; ballooning.

A balloon.

Aërial navigation; the art of raising and guiding balloons in the air.

rom the origin of a tide in the South Pacific Ocean to its arrival at a given place. -- Moon's age, the time that has elapsed since the last preceding conjunction of the sun and moon.