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al propensities. Specifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating beverages, -- called also total abstinence. The abstinence from a present pleasure that offers itself is a pain, nay, oftentimes, a very great one. Locke.

e by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or figure, the act is called abstraction. So, also, when it considers whiteness, softness, virtue, existence, as separate from any particular objects.

us plants of many species, found in the torrid and temperate zones of both continents; -- called also Indian mallow.

The inspissated juice of several species of acacia; -- called also gum acacia, and gum arabic.

A group of Coelenterata, including the Medusæ or jellyfishes, and hydroids; -- so called from the stinging power they possess. Sometimes called sea nettles.

line, drawn from the eye, parallel to a given right line, cuts the perspective plane; so called to distinguish it from the principal point, or point of view, where a line drawn from the eye perpendicular to the perspective plane meets this plane. -- Accidental lights (Paint.), secondary lights; effects of light other…

that the defendant shall render his just account, or show good cause to the contrary; -- called also an action of account. Cowell.

The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account; accountableness. "The awful idea of accountability." R. Hall.

Liable to be called on to render an account; answerable; as, every man is accountable to God for his conduct.

usalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed. The system of warfare . . . which had already converted immense tracts into one universal aceldama. De Quincey.

sion of the Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells, like the clams and oysters; -- so called because they have no evident head. Formerly the group included the Tunicata, Brachiopoda, and sometimes the Bryozoa. See Mollusca.

id, filled with fluid, sometimes found in the tissues of man and the lower animals; -- so called from the absence of a head or visible organs on the vesicle. These cysts are the immature stages of certain tapeworms. Also applied to similar cysts of different origin.

A compound of aniline with acetyl, used to allay fever or pain; -- called also antifebrine.

A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup; -- called a naked seed by the earlier botanists. [Written also akene and achænium.]

An escutcheon or ensign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called hatchment. Cussans.

of the large muscles in the calf of the leg, an inserted into the bone of the heel; -- so called from the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the River Styx.

names from this negative element or radical. Those which contain no oxygen are sometimes called hydracids in distinction from the others which are called oxygen acids or oxacids.

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

prout at the end of a seed when it begins to germinate; the plumule in germination; -- so called from its spiral form.

zoa, and family Actinidæ. From a resemblance to flowers in form and color, they are often called animal flowers and sea anemones. [See Polyp.].