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To bark or snarl, as a dog. [Obs.]

The act of oblatrating; a barking or snarling. Bp. Hall.

An oblate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its minor axis. Cf. Oblongum.

Resembling. [Obs.] And all is semblative a woman's part. Shak.

To take or carry away; to remove. [R.] E. Hall.

The act of taking or carrying away; removal. [R.] Bp. Hall.

Having power, or tending, to take away. [R.] Harris.

y dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute, under Ablative. Absolute curvature (Geom.), that curvature of a curve of double curvature, which is measured in the osculating plane of the curve. -- Absolute equation (Astron.), the sum of the optic and eccentr…

The lower division of an entablature, or that part which rests immediately on the column, esp. in classical architecture. See Column.

church, who celebrated the Lord's Supper with bread and cheese, alleging that the first oblations of men not only of the fruit of the earth, but of their flocks. [Gen. iv. 3, 4.]

Figures or half figures of men, used as columns to support an entablature; -- called also telamones. See Caryatides. Oxf. Gloss.

gh seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court. In banc, In banco (the ablative of bancus), In bank, in full court, or with full judicial authority; as, sittings in banc (distinguished from sittings at nisi prius).

mily Oribatidæ, parasitic on beetles. -- Black beetle, the common large black cockroach (Blatta orientalis).

(Arch.) A draped female figure supporting an entablature, in the place of a column or pilaster.

Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case.

An orthopterus insect of the genus Blatta, and allied genera.

A series or range of columns placed at regular intervals with all the adjuncts, as entablature, stylobate, roof, etc.

A capital so sculptured as to appear like a cushion pressed down by the weight of its entablature. (b) A name given to a form of capital, much used in the Romanesque style, modeled like a bowl, the upper part of which is cut away on four sides, leaving vertical faces. -- Cushion star (Zoöl.) a pentagonal starfish belo…

A large West Indian cockroach (Blatta gigantea) which drums on woodwork, as a sexual call.

of the capital of the Grecian Doric style, which is of a peculiar elastic curve. See Entablature.