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The quality of being unanswerable; unanswerableness.

Not answerable; irrefutable; conclusive; decisive; as, he have an unanswerable argument. -- Un*an"swer*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*an"swer*a*bly, adv.

Not answered; not replied; as, an unanswered letter.

Incongruous; inconsistent. "A thing unconsonant.' Hooker.

Not covenanted; not granted or entered into under a covenant, agreement, or contract. Bp. Horsley.

Tenancy or tenure under a tenant or lessee; the tenure of an undertenant.

The tenant of a tenant; one who holds lands or tenements of a tenant or lessee.

Accordance of sounds; unison.

Being in unison; having the same degree of gravity or acuteness; sounded alike in pitch.

To remove a tenant from. [R.] Coleridge.

Serving to in invest, or sheathe; sheathing. Vaginant leaf (Bot.), a leaf investing the stem or branch by its base, which has the form of a tube.

The hunting spiders, which run after, or leap upon, their prey.

Flourishing, as in spring; vernal. [Obs.] "Vernant flowers." Milton.

The part of a dwelling appropriated to women. [India]

e from the first letter (Aleph, and itself from the Egyptian origin. The Aleph was a consonant letter, with a guttural breath sound that was not an element of Greek articulation; and the Greeks took it to represent their vowel Alpha with the ä sound, the Phoenician alphabet having no vowel symbols. This letter, in Engl…

The simplest rudiments of any subject; as, the A B C of finance. A B C book, a primer. Shak.

To instigate or encourage by aid or countenance; -- used in a bad sense of persons and acts; as, to abet an ill-doer; to abet one in his wicked courses; to abet vice; to abet an insurrection. "The whole tribe abets the villany." South. Would not the fool abet the stealth, Who rashly thus exposed his wealth Gay.…

k 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.

Contrary or repugnant; discordant; inconsistent; -- followed by to. "Injudicious profanation, so abhorrent to our stricter principles." Gibbon.

Pertaining to the study of inanimate things.