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A fabaceous tree of Brazil (Centrolobium robustum) having handsomely striped wood; --called also zebrawood.

enances; sometimes open, serving as an entrance or to give light; sometimes closed at the back (as in the cut) and forming a decorative feature.

Backward; in or to the rear; behindhand. Spenser.

To dry, or make dry. Bacon.

The act of butting like a ram; act of using a battering-ram. [Obs.] Bacon.

The cavity under the shoulder; the armpit. Bacon.

impregnate with aroma; to render aromatic; to give a spicy scent or taste to; to perfume. Bacon.

To or in the rear; behind; backwards. [Obs.] Spenser.

ge; hindrance; restraint; as, an arrest of development. As the arrest of the air showeth. Bacon.

An herbaceous grasslike plant (Triglochin palustre, and other species) with pods opening so as to suggest barbed arrowheads.

A bacterial resting cell, -- formerly considered a spore, but now known to occur even in endosporous bacteria. -- Ar`thro*spor"ic (#), Ar*thros"po*rous (#), a.

Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars. [Archaic] Bacon.

A man skilled in an art or in arts. [Obs.] Bacon.

that. [Obs.] The relations are so uncertain as they require a great deal of examination. Bacon.

tude of a planet. Ferguson. -- Ascending line (Geneol.), the line of relationship traced backward or through one's ancestors. One's father and mother, grandfather and grandmother, etc., are in the line direct ascending. -- Ascending node having, that node of the moon or a planet wherein it passes the ecliptic to proc…

To refer something to its cause or source; as, to attribute a backward spring to icebergs off the coast. Ascribe is used equally in both these senses, but involves a different image. To impute usually denotes to ascribe something doubtful or wrong, and hence, in general literature, has commonly a bad sense; as, to impu…

, tingling. Udall. Leaning long upon any part maketh it numb, and, as we call it, asleep. Bacon.

aslant; declining from an upright direction; sloping. "Set them not upright, but aslope." Bacon.

The act of looking; vision; gaze; glance. [R.] "The basilisk killeth by aspect." Bacon. His aspect was bent on the ground. Sir W. Scott.

Rough; rugged; harsh; bitter; stern; fierce. [Archaic] "An asper sound." Bacon.