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To degrade from the character of a philosopher. [R.] Pope.

One of the substances of which vegetable tissue is composed, differing from cellulose in its solubility in certain media.

Full of venules, or small veins.

Containing, or full of, worms; resembling worms.

Minutely verrucose; as, a verruculose leaf or stalk.

Bladdery; vesicular; vesiculate; composed of vesicles; covered with vesicles; as, a vesiculose shell.

See Villous.

State of being villous.

Having long and slender trailing stems.

In the greater part of Russia, a division for local government consisting of a group of mirs, or village communities; a canton.

A privy; especially, a privy furnished with a contrivance for introducing a stream of water to cleanse it.

An unfermentable sugar of the pentose class, C5H10O5, formed by the hydrolysis of xylan; wood sugar.

A glucoside found in the poisonous berries of a species of honeysuckle (Lonicera xylosteum), and extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance.

poses; the sea-ear. Several large species are found on the coast of California, clinging closely to the rocks.

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

ent by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.

An inhabitant of Abdera, in Thrace. The Abderite, Democritus, the Laughing Philosopher.

fe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton.

Alongside; as, close aboard. Naut.: To fall aboard of, to strike a ship's side; to fall foul of. -- To haul the tacks aboard, to set the courses. -- To keep the land aboard, to hug the shore. -- To lay (a ship) aboard, to place one's own ship close alongside of (a ship) for fighting.

Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence, in quality, manner, degree, etc.; as, about as cold; about as high; -- also of quantity, number, time. "There fell . . . about three thousand men." Exod. xxii. 28.