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Containing many nuclei.

Having more than one nucleolus.

Half cylindrical.

The quality or state of being sly.

process of laying bare the roots of trees to expose them to the air and water. [Obs.] Evelyn.

to walk abroad. I went to St. James', where another was preaching in the court abroad. Evelyn.

A genus of leguminous trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates.

An agate. [Obs.] Evelyn.

To familiarize; to accustom. [Obs.] Evelyn. To be acquainted with, to be possessed of personal knowledge of; to be cognizant of; to be more or less familiar with; to be on terms of social intercourse with.

ually; to devote; to habituate; -- with to. "They addict themselves to the civil law." Evelyn. He is addicted to his study. Beau. & Fl. That part of mankind that addict their minds to speculations. Adventurer. His genius addicted him to the study of antiquity. Fuller. A man gross . . . and addicted to low company. Maca…

Growing to or on something else. "An adnascent plant." Evelyn.

To range or place in a line; to bring into line; to align. Evelyn.

One who adjusts things to a line or lines or brings them into line. Evelyn.

the force or weight of. [Obs.] Should no others join capable to alleviate the expense. Evelyn. Those large bladders . . . conduce much to the alleviating of the body [of flying birds]. Ray.

; as, ambitious to be or to do something. I was not ambitious of seeing this ceremony. Evelyn. Studious of song, and yet ambitious not to sing in vain. Cowper.

Something which holds like an anchor; a hold; as, the anchorages of the Brooklyn Bridge.

One who plants or who prunes trees. [Obs.] Evelyn.

tallizations disposed like the branches and twigs of a tree. "Arborescent hollyhocks." Evelyn.

In an arch manner; with attractive slyness or roguishness; slyly; waggishly. Archly the maiden smiled. Longfellow.

One who, or that which, aromatizes or renders aromatic. Evelyn.