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To use ill; to maltreat; to act injuriously to; to punish or to tax excessively; to hurt; as, to abuse prisoners, to abuse one's powers, one's patience.

The doctrines of the Academic philosophy. [Obs.] Baxter.

The act of coupling, or the state of being coupled; union. [R.] Caxton.

A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and fill…

to say further. He added that he would willingly consent to the entire abolition of the tax. Macaulay.

The action by which the parts of the body are drawn towards its axis]; -- opposed to abduction. Dunglison.

To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura.

parts without suppuration. -- Adhesive plaster, a sticking; a plaster containing resin, wax, litharge, and olive oil.

A soft, unctuous, or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are converted, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places. It is a result of fatty degeneration.

heedfulness. To this difference it is right that advertence should be had in regulating taxation. J. S. Mill.

A diphthong in the Latin language; used also by the Saxon writers. It answers to the Gr. æ was generally replaced by a, the long e or ee. In derivatives from Latin words with ae, it is mostly superseded by e. For most words found with this initial combination, the reader will therefore search under the letter E.…

languages. R. Morris. Agglutinative languages preserve the consciousness of their roots. Max Müller.

A cake of wax stamped with such a figure. It is made from the remains of the paschal candles and blessed by the Pope.

greeable, 4. The effect of which is, that marriages grow less frequent, agreeably to the maxim above laid down. Paley.

nds, due either to paralysis of the larynx or to that form of aphasia, called motor, or ataxis, aphasia, due to loss of control of the muscles of speech.

Axillary; in the fork or axil. Gray.

By any or means; at all events. [Obs.] Fairfax.

The segment of the body of an insect to which the wings are attached; the thorax. Kirby.

some, individually and collectively, one and all. [Obs.] "Displeased all and some." Fairfax. -- All but. (a) Scarcely; not even. [Obs.] Shak. (b) Almost; nearly. "The fine arts were all but proscribed." Macaulay. -- All hollow, entirely, completely; as, to beat any one all hollow. [Low] -- All one, the same thing in…

. Allegorical being . . . that kind of language which says one thing, but means another. Max Miller. Al`le*gor"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Al`le*gor"ic*al*ness, n.