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The urubu, or American black vulture.

as a physical objects; to wipe out. [Archaic] And with thy blood abolish so reproachful blot. Spenser. His quick instinctive hand Caught at the hilt, as to abolish him. Tennyson.

Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful. [R.] I am absolute 't was very Cloten. Shak.

Sloth; torpor. [Obs.] "The sin of accidie." Chaucer.

Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end. [Archaic] Tillotson.

id pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth. D. C. Eaton.

A fine cotton cloth of India.

European adder is the Vipera (or Pelias) berus. The puff adders of Africa are species of Clotho.

To clothe or array; to dress. [Archaic] Tecla . . . addressed herself in man's apparel. Jewel.

A material object (vaguely designated). A certain affair of fine red cloth much worn and faded. Hawthorne.

elings promptly yielded to his habitual affiance in the divine love. Sir J. Stephen. Lancelot, my Lancelot, thou in whom I have Most joy and most affiance. Tennyson.

Old; having lived long; having lived almost to or beyond the usual time allotted to that species of being; as, an aged man; an aged oak.

To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs.

The three-toed sloth (Bradypus tridactylus) of South America. See Sloth.

(Aëronautics) A small plane or surface capable of being manipulated by the pilot of a flying machine to preserve or destroy lateral balance; a hinged wing tip; a lateral stabilizing or balancing plane.

A frame on which clothes are aired or dried.

A man who ascends or flies in an aircraft; a flying machine pilot.

Although; albeit. [Obs.] All they were wondrous loth. Spenser.

To distribute or assign; to allot. Burke.

An allotment or apportionment; as, an allocation of shares in a company. The allocation of the particular portions of Palestine to its successive inhabitants. A. R. Stanley.