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Of or pertaining to thermochemistry; obtained by, or employed in, thermochemistry.

That branch of chemical science which includes the investigation of the various relations existing between chemical action and that manifestation of force termed heat, or the determination of the heat evolved by, or employed in, chemical actions.

The quality pr state of being vehement; impetuous force; impetuosity; violence; fury; as, the vehemence.

Vehemence. [R.] The vehemency of your affection. Shak.

Acting with great force; furious; violent; impetuous; forcible; mighty; as, vehement wind; a vehement torrent; a vehement fire or heat.

In a vehement manner.

A poisonous umbelliferous plant (Cicuta virosa) of Europe; also, any one of several plants of that genus.

See under Hemp.

Pertaining to zoöchemistry.

Animal chemistry; particularly, the description of the chemical compounds entering into the composition of the animal body, in distinction from biochemistry.

Animal chemistry; zoöchemistry. Dunglison.

See Zythum.

eces." "Stand a tiptoe." "A Sundays" Shak. "Wit that men have now a days." Chaucer. "Set them a work." Robynson (More's Utopia)

The Manila-hemp plant (Musa textilis); also, its fiber. See Manila hemp under Manila.

To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject. [Obs.] That he might . . . abandon them from him. Udall. Being all this time abandoned from your bed. Shak.

Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them. Crabb.

The act or process of laying bare the roots of trees to expose them to the air and water. [Obs.] Evelyn.

r implied), agreeing with it in gender, number, and case, both words forming a clause by themselves and being unconnected, grammatically, with the rest of the sentence; as, Tarquinio regnante, Pythagoras venit, i. e., Tarquinius reigning, Pythagoras came.

To vouch for. "I 'll able them." Shak.

Around; all round; on every side of. "Look about you." Shak. "Bind them about thy neck." Prov. iii. 3.