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Not organized; being without organic structure; specifically (Biol.), not having the different tissues and organs characteristic of living organisms, nor the power of growth and development; as, the unorganized ferments. See the Note under Ferment, n., 1.

To cause to cease to be pagan; to divest of pagan character. [R.] Cudworth.

The borele.

A wandering; vagrancy. [Obs.] A thousand vagancies of glory and desight. Milton.

A tribe of spiders, comprising some of those which take their prey in a web, but which also frequently run with agility, and chase and seize their prey.

A boat for conveying provisions, tools, etc.; -- so called by Maine lumbermen. [Written also wangun.] Bartlett.

A passage for water, such as was usually made in a sea wall, to drain water out of marshes. Burrill.

he lower part of trousers and of the skirts of women's dresses, etc.; -- so called from Wigan, the name of a town in Lancashire, England.

One of a tribe of beetles whose larvæ bore or live in wood.

A animal that feeds on animal food.

See under Zygosphene.

The supposed origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; -- called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis. I shall call the . . . doctrine that living matter may be produced by not living matter, the hypothesis of abiogen…

Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed.

Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile; as, an abortive organ, stamen, ovule, etc.

A group of annelids, so called because the species composing it have no special organs of respiration.

A red ocher used to darken mahogany and for making chloride of potassium.

At the same time; simultaneously. [Obs.] Abreast therewith began a convocation. Fuller.

lic at large; throughout society or the world; here and there; widely. He went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze abroad the matter. Mark i. 45. To be abroad. (a) To be wide of the mark; to be at fault; as, you are all abroad in your guess. (b) To be at a loss or nonplused.

A collection of pus or purulent matter in any tissue or organ of the body, the result of a morbid process. Cold abscess, an abscess of slow formation, unattended with the pain and heat characteristic of ordinary abscesses, and lasting for years without exhibiting any tendency towards healing; a chronic abscess.…

In living organisms, the process by which the materials of growth and nutrition are absorbed and conveyed to the tissues and organs.