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Having wheels; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a four- wheeled carriage.

Thoroughly imbued with a right spirit; noble-minded; devoted.

Furnished with whorls; arranged in the form of a whorl or whorls; verticillate; as, whorled leaves.

Having some or all of the tail quills terminated in a long, slender, pointed shaft, without a web or barbules.

Having (such) wool; as, a fine-wooled sheep.

Full of zeal; characterized by zeal. [Obs.] "Zealed religion." Beau. & Fl.

An adjective, commonly called the indefinite article, and signifying one or any, but less emphatically.

Applied to knowledge which is based upon or derived from facts through induction or experiment; inductive or empirical.

Applied to knowledge and conceptions assumed, or presupposed, as prior to experience, in order to make experience rational or possible. A priori, that is, form these necessities of the mind or forms of thinking, which, though first revealed to us by experience, must yet have preëxisted in order to make experience possi…

e sails, also of the ship when the sails are thus driven. (b) To be suddenly checked, baffled, or discomfited. Dickens.

Lowered; humbled.

The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low; the state of being abased or humbled; humiliation.

A means of defense formed by felled trees, the ends of whose branches are sharpened and directed outwards, or against the enemy.

Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them. Crabb.

ord of Misrule), in mediæval times, the master of revels, as at Christmas; in Scotland called the Abbot of Unreason. Encyc. Brit.

the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvic cavity.

d ringlike opening on each side of the abdomen, external and superior to the pubes; -- called also inguinal ring.

ern Africa, whose musky seeds are used in perfumery and to flavor coffee; -- sometimes called musk mallow.

ies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer; called annual aberration, when the observer's motion is that of the earth in its orbit, and dairy or diurnal aberration, when of the earth on its axis; amounting when greatest, in the former case, to 20.4'', and in the latter, to 0.3…

year, corresponding nearly to our April. After the Babylonish captivity this month was called Nisan. Kitto.