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Having an ovate form, but with a subulate tip or extremity.

Ovate.

of popular homage; the tribute of the multitude to a public favorite. To rain an April of ovation round Their statues. Tennyson.

Same as Ovate-acuminate.

Same as Ovate-cylindraceous.

Same as Ovate-oblong.

Same as Ovate-rotundate.

Liability to be removed or dismissed from office. [R.] T. Jefferson.

Removable.

Worthy of being approved; meritorious. -- Ap*prov"a*ble*ness, n.

Approbation; sanction. A censor . . . without whose approval nTemple.

Approval. [Archaic] Thomson.

Supplying need; profitable; advantageous. [Obs.] Udall.

An oxgang, or as much land as an ox can plow in a year; an ancient measure of land, of indefinite quantity, but usually estimated at fifteen acres.

See under Oval.

Same as Cordwain. in England the name is applied to leather made from horsehide.

A dark brown substance of vegetable origin, allied to curare, and used by the natives of New Granada as an arrow poison.

A poisonous alkaloid extracted from corroval, and characterized by its immediate action in paralyzing the heart.

A function involving the coefficients and the variables of a quantic, and such that when the quantic is lineally transformed the same function of the new variables and coefficients shall be equal to the old function multiplied by a factor. An invariant is a like function involving only the coefficients of the quantic.…

Pertaining to the number nineteen; of nineteen years. [R.] Holder.