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Abnormal; irregular. Hallam. A character of a more abnormous cast than his equally suspected coadjutor. State Trials.

of; through or over in various directions; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout. Lampoons . . . were handed about the coffeehouses. Macaulay. Roving still about the world. Milton.

ity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been shed with small benefit to the Christian state. Raleigh.

en to misusing; also, full of abuses. [Archaic] "The abusive prerogatives of his see." Hallam.

Capacity of being kindled, or of becoming inflamed; inflammability.

Capable of being inflamed or kindled; combustible; inflammable. Ure.

To declare by acclamations. While the shouting crowd Acclaims thee king of traitors. Smollett.

He who, or that which, accompanies. Lamb.

Liable to be accused or censured; chargeable with a crime or fault; blamable; -- with of.

To charge with a fault; to blame; to censure. Their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another. Rom. ii. 15.

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.

A limpid, colorless, inflammable liquid from the slow oxidation of alcohol under the influence of platinum black.

o, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf. Shak.

Having coalescent or clustered filaments; -- said of stamens; as, adelphous stamens. Usually in composition; as, monadelphous. Gray.

Glandular inflammation. Dunglison.

Union of surface, normally separate, by the formation of new tissue resulting from an inflammatory process.

adhere; clinging. Thomson. Adhesive attraction. (Physics) See Attraction. -- Adhesive inflammation (Surg.), that kind of inflammation which terminates in the reunion of divided parts without suppuration. -- Adhesive plaster, a sticking; a plaster containing resin, wax, litharge, and olive oil.

od Lafeu, bring in the admiration. Shak. Note of admiration, the mark (!), called also exclamation point.

Implying an admission; tending to admit. [R.] Lamb.

nic cohesion of unlike parts. An anther is adnate when fixed by its whole length to the filament. Gray.