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Of or pertaining to a trochoid; having the properties of a trochoid.

Of or pertaining to tyrannicide, or the murder of a tyrant. Booth.

In Shetland and Orkney, a freehold; property held by udal, or allodial, right.

Vars. of Odal, etc. Obs. exc. in Shetland and the Orkney Islands, where udal designates land held in fee simple without any charter and free of any feudal character.

In the Shetland and Orkney Islands, one who holds property by udal, or allodial, right. Sir W. Scott.

To free from feudal customs or character; to make not feudal. Carlyle.

Of or pertaining to the Urochorda.

Of or pertaining to a uropod.

Of or pertaining to uxoricide; tending to uxoricide.

Hence, one who willfully destroys or defaces any work of art or literature. The Vandals of our isle, Sworn foes to sense and law. Cowper.

Of or pertaining to the Vandals; resembling the Vandals in barbarism and destructiveness.

The spirit or conduct of the Vandals; ferocious cruelty; hostility to the arts and literature, or willful destruction or defacement of their monuments.

Somewhat viscous. Cf. Mobile, a., 2.

A test for typhoid fever based on the fact that blood serum of one affected, in a bouillon culture of typhoid bacilli, causes the bacilli to agglutinate and lose their motility.

Of or pertaining to a zooid; as, a zooidal form.

e out; to banish; to expel; to reject. [Obs.] That he might . . . abandon them from him. Udall. Being all this time abandoned from your bed. Shak.

or dislike; to be contrary or averse; -- with from. [Obs.] "To abhor from those vices." Udall. Which is utterly abhorring from the end of all law. Milton.

Wearing away; superficial waste. Tyndall.

with dust, borne by Byzantine emperors, as a memento of mortality. It is represented on medals.

A representation, in sculpture or on medals, of people expressing joy. Acclamation medals are those on which laudatory acclamations are recorded. Elmes.