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The Urodela.

Skillful in, or fond of, writing. [Obs.] Barrow.

See Batfish (a).

The eleventh month of the ancient Hebrew year, approximately corresponding with February. W. Smith (Bibl. Dict. ).

A salt of sebacic acid.

A tub in which one bathes in a sitting posture; also, a bath so taken; a hip bath.

A salt of sorbic acid.

A celebrated Latin hymn, beginning with these words, commemorating the sorrows of the mother of our Lord at the foot of the cross. It is read in the Mass of the Sorrows of the Virgin Mary, and is sung by Catholics when making "the way of the cross" (Via Crucis). See Station, 7 (c).

The lower part or basement of a building or pedestal; -- used loosely for several different forms of basement.

The uninterrupted and continuous flat band, coping, or pavement upon which the bases of a row of columns are supported. See Sub-base.

A hypothetical component of a chemical atom, on the theory that the elements themselves are complex substances; -- called also atomicule.

sore or bruise, as the feet by travel. [Obs.] Lest they their fins should bruise, and surbate sore Their tender feet upon the stony ground. Spenser. Chalky land surbates and spoils oxen's feet. Mortimer.

A salt of terebic acid.

A thermoelectric battery; a thermopile.

The three-spined stickleback. [Prov. Eng.]

To stumble. [Obs.]

The act of stumbling, rocking, or rolling; a reeling. Quain.

Having three lobes.

The state of being trilobate.

Word for word; in the same words; verbally; as, to tell a story verbatim as another has related it. Verbatim et literatim Etym: [LL.], word for word, and letter for letter.