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A superficial excoriation, with loss of substance under the form of small shreds. Dunglison.

be wide of the mark; to be at fault; as, you are all abroad in your guess. (b) To be at a loss or nonplused.

One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist. Hume.

Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the Academic sect or philosophy.

A tenet of the Academic philosophy.

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

An Academic philosopher.

ear Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head.

Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.

Heaped, or growing in heaps, or closely compacted clusters.

To carry on to a final close; to bring out into a perfected state; to accomplish; to perform; -- as, to achieve a feat, an exploit, an enterprise. Supposing faculties and powers to be the same, far more may be achieved in any line by the aid of a capital, invigorating motive than without it. I. Taylor.…

tive properties of alkalies or bases, combining with them to form salts, at the same time losing their own peculiar properties. They all contain hydrogen, united with a more negative element or radical, either alone, or more generally with oxygen, and take their names from this negative element or radical. Those which…

Anciently, a snake, called dart snake; now, one of a genus of reptiles closely allied to the lizards.

The act or process of acquiring. The acquisition or loss of a province. Macaulay.

haps, also, he felt his professional acuteness interested in bringing it to a successful close. Sir W. Scott.

A genus of ferns (Ophioglossum), whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue.

Having lost the power of development, and become rotten, as eggs; putrid. Hence: Unfruitful or confused, as brains; muddled. Dryden.

A muscle which draws a limb or part of the body toward the middle line of the body, or closes extended parts of the body; -- opposed to abductor; as, the adductor of the eye, which turns the eye toward the nose. In the bivalve shells, the muscles which close the values of the shell are called adductor muscles. Verrill.…

One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.

Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway. "The adjacent forest." B. Jonson. Adjacent or contiguous angle. (Geom.) See Angle.