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Any fruit or produce that does not come to maturity, or anything which in its progress, before it is matured or perfect; a complete failure; as, his attempt. proved an abortiori.

ess; unending; profound. Geology gives one the same abysmal extent of time that astronomy does of space. Carlyle.

One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.

A female actor or doer. [Obs.] Cockeram.

A title annexed to a man's name, to identify him more precisely; as, John Doe, Esq.; Richard Roe, Gent.; Robert Dale, Mason; Thomas Way, of New York; a mark of distinction; a title.

To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura.

larendon. -- To have the advantage of (any one), to have a personal knowledge of one who does not have a reciprocal knowledge. "You have the advantage of me; I don't remember ever to have had the honor." Sheridan. -- To take advantage of, to profit by; (often used in a bad sense) to overreach, to outwit.…

ondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually. For he does neither affect company, nor is he fit for Shak. Do not affect the society of your inferiors in rank, nor court that of the great. Hazlitt.

Passion; violent emotion. [Obs.] Most wretched man, That to affections does the bridle lend. Spenser.

To be conformable; to resemble; to coincide; to correspond; as, the picture does not agree with the original; the two scales agree exactly.

iance, or belonging, to another country; a foreign-born resident of a country in which he does not posses the privileges of a citizen. Hence, a stranger. See Alienage.

An aliquant part of a number or quantity is one which does not divide it without leaving a remainder; thus, 5 is an aliquant part of

y, completely, altogether. But the sense of entireness lies wholly in the word all (as it does in "all forlorn," and similar expressions), and the to properly belongs to the following word, being a kind of intensive prefix (orig. meaning asunder and answering to the LG. ter-, HG. zer- ). It is frequently to be met with…

Elevated, -- as a toe, when raised so high that the tip does not touch the ground.

a sentence; an instance of a change of construction in a sentence so that the latter part does not syntactically correspond with the first part.

Having fruit inclosed within a covering that does not form a part of itself; as, the filbert covered by its husk, or the acorn seated in its cupule. Brande & C.

In the night time; at night. [Archaic] Does he hawk anights still Marston.

The solid formed by a circle revolving around a line which is the plane of the circle but does not cut it.

whatsoever sensible good may be wished for; the object of will is that good which reason does lead us to seek. Hooker.

Applied to a gastrula when the blastorope does not entirely up.