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A rod with one serpent twined around it, thus differing from the caduceus of Mercury, which has two.

insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against.

A West Indian palm; also the fruit of this palm, the seeds of which are used as a remedy for diseases of the chest.

Articulation, usually that kind of articulation which admits of free motion in the joint; diarthrosis. Coxe.

He who, or that which, abases.

The amount abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction; deduction; decrease; a rebate or discount allowed.

One who, or that which, abates.

or governess of a nunnery, or convent of nuns, having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have over the monks. See Abbey.

The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America.

that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis. Also, the cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the stomach, bowels, and other viscera. In man, often restricted to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvic cavity.…

The movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body.

A muscle which serves to draw a part out, or form the median line of the body; as, the abductor oculi, which draws the eye outward.

On the beam, that is, on a line which forms a right angle with the ship's keel; opposite to the center of the ship's side.

habet; alphabetic; hence, rudimentary. Abecedarian psalms, hymns, etc., compositions in which (like the 119th psalm in Hebrew) distinct portions or verses commence with successive letters of the alphabet. Hook.

he more aberrant any form is, the greater must have been the number of connecting forms which, on my theory, have been exterminated. Darwin.

A partial alienation of reason. "Occasional aberrations of intellect." Lingard. Whims, which at first are the aberrations of a single brain, pass with heat into epidemic form. I. Taylor.

ion; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. Rom. xii. 9.

Exceptional. [R.] It is this power which leads on from the accidental and abjunctive to the universal. I. Taylor.

The ablative case. ablative absolute, a construction in Latin, in which a noun in the ablative case has a participle (either expressed or 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 r…

A small quantity of wine and water, which is used to wash the priest's thumb and index finger after the communion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrated elements, is drunk by the priest.