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Loss of motion, or of the motion; a state of inactivity with partial or total insensibility; numbness.

To affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree; to make partially insane; -- rarely used except in the past participle. She feared his head was a little touched. Ld. Lytton.

The quality or state of being translucent; clearness; partial transparency. Sir T. Browne.

Transmitting rays of light without permitting objects to be distinctly seen; partially transparent.

A sound, of consonantal character, made with a rapid succession of partial or entire intermissions, by the vibration of some one part of the organs in the mouth -- tongue, uvula, epiglottis, or lip -- against another part; as, the r is a trill in most languages.

a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wholly, or repeatedly; to make to change position so as to present other sides in given directions; to make to face otherwise; as, to turn a wheel or a spindle; to turn the body or the head. Turn the adamantine spindle…

A half-suppressed laugh; a fit of laughter partially restrained; a titter; a giggle. Hudibras.

A small or partial umbel; an umbellule.

Free from bias or prejudice; unprejudiced; impartial. -- Un*bi"ased*ness, n.

A growth of short hair or fur partially concealed by a longer growth; as, a dog's undercoat.

Making no distinctions; not discriminating; impartial. As undistinctive Death will come here one day. Dickens.

Ill balanced or matched; disproportioned; hence, not equitable; partial; unjust; unfair. Against unequal arms to fight in pain. Milton. Jerome, a very unequal relator of the opinion of his adversaries. John Worthington. To punish me for what you make me do Seems much unequal. Shak.

Not fair; not honest; not impartial; disingenuous; using or involving trick or artifice; dishonest; unjust; unequal. You come, like an unfair merchant, to charge me with being in your debt. Swift. -- Un*fair"ly, adv -- Un*fair"ness, n.

nevolence or benefice. "Anointed universal King." Milton. The universal cause Acts not by partial, but by general laws. Pope. This universal frame began. Dryden.

Not prejudiced; free from undue bias or prepossession; not preoccupied by opinion; impartial; as, an unprejudiced mind; an unprejudiced judge.

Not warped; hence, not biased; impartial.

or designating, an acid, CH3C6H3(CO2H)2, obtained as a white crystalline substance by the partial oxidation of mesitylene; -- called also mesitic acid.

gar making for boiling down sirup. It is so connected with an exhausting apparatus that a partial vacuum is formed within. This allows the evaporation and concentration to take place at a lower atmospheric pressure and hence also at a lower temperature, which largely obviates the danger of burning the sugar, and shorte…

The third of the four great original castes among the Hindoos, now either extinct or partially represented by the mercantile class of Banyas. See the Note under Caste, 1.

The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing; modification; alternation; mutation; diversity; deviation; as, a variation of color in different lights; a variation in size; variation of language. The essences of things are conceived not capable of any such variation. Locke.…