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Inauspicious. Rowe.

Inconspicuous. [R.] Ed. Rev.

To pick out; to undo by picking.

Picked out; picked open.

The quality or state of being unsuspecting. Dickens.

to come out of concealment. [Obs.] Massinger.

Utopian; ideal. [Obs.] "Utopical perfection." Bp. Hall.

Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid obtained from a lichen (Cetraria vulpina) as a yellow or red crystalline substance which on decomposition yields pulvinic acid.

One who kills a fox, except in hunting; also, the act of so killing a fox. [Written also vulpecide.]

Father; religious superior; -- in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch.

Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts. "Base and abject flatterers." Addison. "An abject liar." Macaulay. And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams. Shak.

Broken off; very steep, or craggy, as rocks, precipices, banks; precipitous; steep; as, abrupt places. "Tumbling through ricks abrupt," Thomson.

Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive. Absorbent ground (Paint.), a ground prepared for a picture, chiefly with distemper, or water colors, by which the oil is absorbed, and a brilliancy is imparted to the colors.

be comprehended or understood; recondite; as, abstruse learning. Profound and abstruse topics. Milman.

The quality of being abusive; rudeness of language, or violence to the person. Pick out mirth, like stones out of thy ground, Profaneness, filthiness, abusiveness. Herbert.

The top or highest point; the culmination. The very acme and pitch of life for epic poetry. Pope. The moment when a certain power reaches the acme of its supremacy. I. Taylor.

The use of a picture symbol of an object to represent phonetically the initial sound of the name of the object.

The use of a picture symbol of an object to represent phonetically the initial sound of the name of the object.

or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.

Takes away. [Obs.] Without any sinister suspicion of anything being added or adempt. Latimn.