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Not symmetrically.

In a vertical manner, position, or direction; perpendicularly; as, to look down vertically; to raise a thing vertically.

In words; verbally; as, to express desires vocally.

Like a volcano.

In a whimsical manner; freakishly.

In a zoölogical manner; according to the principles of zoölogy.

An adjective, commonly called the indefinite article, and signifying one or any, but less emphatically.

, as in afoot, on foot, abed, amiss, asleep, aground, aloft, away (AS. onweg), and analogically, ablaze, atremble, etc. (2) AS. of off, from, as in adown (AS. ofdüne off the dun or hill). (3) AS. a- (Goth. us-, ur-, Ger. er-), usually giving an intensive force, and sometimes the sense of away, on, back, as in arise, ab…

r Lord of Misrule), in mediæval times, the master of revels, as at Christmas; in Scotland called the Abbot of Unreason. Encyc. Brit.

to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvic cavity.

cied ringlike opening on each side of the abdomen, external and superior to the pubes; -- called also inguinal ring.

rthern Africa, whose musky seeds are used in perfumery and to flavor coffee; -- sometimes called musk mallow.

bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer; called annual aberration, when the observer's motion is that of the earth in its orbit, and dairy or diurnal aberration, when of the earth on its axis; amounting when greatest, in the former case, to 20.4'', and in the latter, to…

al year, corresponding nearly to our April. After the Babylonish captivity this month was called Nisan. Kitto.

fixed in some state or condition; to continue; to remain. Let every man abide in the same calling. 1 Cor. vii. 20. Followed by by: To abide by. (a) To stand to; to adhere; to maintain. The poor fellow was obstinate enough to abide by what he said at first. Fielding.

A genus of coniferous trees, properly called Fir, as the balsam fir and the silver fir. The spruces are sometimes also referred to this genus.

Of or pertaining to the fir tree or its products; as, abietic acid, called also sylvic acid. Watts.

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 abiogenesis. Huxley, 1870.

The process of grafting now called inarching, or grafting by approach.

umber, 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.