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Lower, nether. [Obs.] Holland.

Lowest; as, the nethermost abyss. Milton.

A pot for boiling things; a boiler. Like burnished gold the little seether shone. Dryden.

A record of fluctuations of temperature made automatically at a distant station.

An apparatus for determining the temperature of a distant point, as by a thermoelectric circuit or otherwise.

th a long rope or chain, as for feeding within certain limits. And by a slender cord was tethered to a stone. Wordsworth.

A game played with rackets and a ball suspended by a string from an upright pole, the object of each side being to wrap the string around the pole by striking the ball in a direction opposite to the other.

In company or association with respect to place or time; as, to live together in one house; to live together in the same age; they walked together to the town. Soldiers can never stand idle long together. Landor.

A castrated ram.

ich one (of two); -- used interrogatively and relatively. [Archaic] Now choose yourself whether that you liketh. Chaucer. One day in doubt I cast for to compare Whether in beauties' glory did exceed. Spenser. Whether of them twain did the will of his father Matt. xxi. 31.

The retention of the afterbirth in cows. Gardner.

ing, a building, a begging. "Jacob, when he was a dying" Heb. xi. 21. "We'll a birding together." " It was a doing." Shak. "He burst out a laughing." Macaulay. The hyphen may be used to connect a with the verbal substantive (as, a-hunting, a-building) or the words may be written separately. This form of expression is n…

, but soluble in alcohol (especially at the boiling point), in strong acetic acid, and in ether. Watts.

The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent. Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send reli…

An animal or a plant native to the region. It may well be doubted whether this frog is an aboriginal of these islands. Darwin.

d to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc. Let us see whether the New Testament abrogates what we so frequently see in the Old. South. Whose laws, like those of the Medes and Persian, they can not alter or abrogate. Burke.

To hinder; to withhold. Whether he abstain men from marrying. Milton.

easurable, and, specifically, hell, or the bottomless pit. Ye powers and spirits of this nethermost abyss. Milton. The throne is darkness, in the abyss of light. Dryden.

To lie or sail along the coast or side of; to accost. [Obs.] Whether high towering or accosting low. Spenser.

To gather together; to collect. [Obs.] Spenser.