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In an onerous manner.

Once. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A reflexive form of the indefinite pronoun one. Commonly writen as two words, one's self. One's self (or more properly oneself), is quite a modern form. In Elizabethan English we find a man's self=one's self. Morris.

Scarcely. See Unnethe. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A univalve mollusk of the genus Haliotis. The shell is lined with mother-of-pearl, and used for ornamental purposes; the sea-ear. Several large species are found on the coast of California, clinging closely to the rocks.

Forsaken, deserted. "Your abandoned streams." Thomson.

Unrestrainedly.

One to whom anything is legally abandoned.

One who abandons. Beau. & Fl.

Mentioned or named before; aforesaid.

A morbid condition characterized by the presence of acetone in the blood, as in diabetes.

A volatile liquid consisting of three parts of carbon, six of hydrogen, and one of oxygen; pyroacetic spirit, -- obtained by the distillation of certain acetates, or by the destructive distillation of citric acid, starch, sugar, or gum, with quicklime.

A crystalline ketone, CH3COC6H5, which may be obtained by the dry distillation of a mixture of the calcium salts of acetic and benzoic acids. It is used as a hypnotic under the name of hypnone.

An apparatus for the production of sound by the action of the actinic, or ultraviolet, rays.

Admonisher. [Obs.]

Pertaining to Adonis; Adonic. "Fair Adonean Venus." Faber.

The science of gliding and soaring flight.

A power-driven, heavier-than-air flying machine.

An instrument, proposed by Edison, for greatly intensifying speech. It consists of a phonograph diaphragm so arranged that its action opens and closes valves, producing synchronous air blasts sufficient to operate a larger diaphragm with greater amplitude of vibration.

Disposed. [Archaic] Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10.