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A plant growing in a state of nature; especially, one which has run wild, or escaped from cultivation.

Tending to wither; causing to shrink or fade. -- With"er*ing*ly, adv.

The glutton.

In a wondering manner.

ence in idle imagination; a foolish or useless pursuit or design. His wits were a woolgathering, as they say. Burton.

A rod with one serpent twined around it, thus differing from the caduceus of Mercury, which has two.

The French word answering to the English abbot, the head of an abbey; but commonly a title of respect given in France to every one vested with the ecclesiastical habit or dress.

State of being aberrant; a wandering from the right way; deviation from truth, rectitude, etc. Aberrancy of curvature (Geom.), the deviation of a curve from a circular form.

Wandering; straying from the right way.

The act of wandering; deviation, especially from truth or moral rectitude, from the natural state, or from a type. "The aberration of youth." Hall. "Aberrations from theory." Burke.

To shrink back with shuddering from; to regard with horror or detestation; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. Rom. xii. 9.

ting carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton.

means, or resources of any kind to accomplish the object; possessed of qualifications rendering competent for some end; competent; qualified; capable; as, an able workman, soldier, seaman, a man able to work; a mind able to reason; a person able to be generous; able to endure pain; able to play on a piano.…

An omen. [Obs.] High-thundering Juno's husband stirs my spirit with true abodes. Chapman.

Rendering fruitless or ineffectual. [Obs.] "Plunged in that abortive gulf." Milton.

Here and there; around; in one place and another. Wandering about from house to house. 1 Tim. v. 13.

ove it, to distinguish magnitudes of a similar kind expressed by the same letter, but differing in value, as y', y''.

To lie or sail along the coast or side of; to accost. [Obs.] Whether high towering or accosting low. Spenser.

er in a public office, who has charge of the accounts. Accountatn general, the head or superintending accountant in certain public offices. Also, formerly, an officer in the English court of chancery who received the moneys paid into the court, and deposited them in the Bank of England.

Growing larger after flowering. Gray.