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Of, pertaining to or containing, trilobites; as, trilobitic rocks.

The turbot.

A fossil turbo.

See Turpeth.

The absence of ambition. [R.] F. W. Newman.

To remove the turns of (a rope or cable) from the bits; as, to unbit a cable. Totten.

Indubitable; as, an undubitable principle. [Obs.] Locke.

See Vasodilator.

Any of several plants bearing thorns or stiff hooked appendages, which catch and tear the clothing, as:

See Water hare.

A turn of the cable about the end of the windlass, without the bits.

Eaten into, defaced, or worn, by exposure to the weather. Coleridge.

To take another turn with, as a cable around a windlass. Totten.

A term used of beer when the froth of the yeast has reëntered the body of the beer.

A tantalate of uranium, yttrium, and calcium, of a brown or black color.

commonly a title of respect given in France to every one vested with the ecclesiastical habit or dress.

An inhabitant of Abdera, in Thrace. The Abderite, Democritus, the Laughing Philosopher.

erver; called annual aberration, when the observer's motion is that of the earth in its orbit, and dairy or diurnal aberration, when of the earth on its axis; amounting when greatest, in the former case, to 20.4'', and in the latter, to 0.3''. Planetary aberration is that due to the motion of light and the motion of th…

Place of continuance, or where one dwells; abiding place; residence; a dwelling; a habitation. Come, let me lead you to our poor abode. Wordsworth.

An original inhabitant of any land; one of the aborigines.