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To violate; to ravish. Spenser.

place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous; as, an accidental visit.

That division of the Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells, like the clams and oysters; -- so called because they have no evident head. Formerly the group included the Tunicata, Brachiopoda, and sometimes the Bryozoa. See Mollusca.

d in the tissues of man and the lower animals; -- so called from the absence of a head or visible organs on the vesicle. These cysts are the immature stages of certain tapeworms. Also applied to similar cysts of different origin.

The division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata. See Cephalopoda.

Provisions. Same as Cates. [Obs.] Spenser.

In an acronycal manner as rising at the setting of the sun, and vise versâ.

A performance of part of a play; one of the principal divisions of a play or dramatic work in which a certain definite part of the action is completed.

A large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not.

A chronic infectious disease of cattle and man due to the presence of Actinomyces bovis. It causes local suppurating tumors, esp. about the jaw. Called also lumpy jaw or big jaw. -- Ac`ti*no*my*cot"ic (#), a.

One of a sect of visionaries, who, professing to imitate the state of Adam, discarded the use of dress in their assemblies.

A provisional name for a plant which has not had its flowers botanically examined, and therefore has not been referred to its proper genus.

The division or defective coherence of an organ that is usually entire.

To exhort; to advise. [Obs.] Feltham.

Containing counsel or warning; hortatory; advisory. [Obs.] Potter.

in aid; assistance. It was, no doubt, disposed with all the adjutancy of definition and division. Burke.

To counsel against wrong practices; to cation or advise; to warn against danger or an offense; -- followed by of, against, or a subordinate clause. Admonishing one another in psalms and hymns. Col. iii. 16. I warned thee, I admonished thee, foretold The danger, and the lurking enemy. Milton.

ebrew word translated "Jehovah" are really the vowel points of the word "Adonai." See Jehovist.

Visited by a dream; -- used in the phrase, To be adreamed, to dream. [Obs.]

resentation of; to outline; to shadow forth. Both in the vastness and the richness of the visible universe the invisible God is adumbrated. L. Taylor.