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A genus of crinoids belonging to the Blastoidea. They have five petal-like ambulacra.

To premise. [Obs.] Donne.

Supremacy. [Obs.] Fuller.

Not remitting; incessant; continued; persevering; as, unremitting exertions. Cowper. -- Un`re*mit"ting*ly, adv. -- Un`re*mit"ting*ness, n.

e to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets. To abate a tax, to remit it either wholly or in part.

o regard with horror or detestation; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. Rom. xii. 9.

To free from a penalty; to pardon; to remit (a sin); -- said of the sin or guilt. In his name I absolve your perjury. Gibbon.

by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants.

Increasing by growth from the extremity; as, an acrogenous plant.

A statue whose extremities are of stone, the trunk being generally of wood. Elmes.

Chronic enlargement of the extremities and face.

The outer extremity of the shoulder blade.

A spore borne at the extremity of the cells of fructification in fungi.

Having a sucker at each extremity, as certain entozoa, by means of which they adhere.

Having the extremities turned back, like the flukes of an anchor; as, an anchored cross. [Sometimes spelt ancred.]

Having the extremities terminate in the heads of eagles, lions, etc.; as, an anserated cross.

At the extremity most remote from the hilum, as the embryo, or inverted with respect to the seed, as the radicle. Lindley.

e, will not congeal and freeze, only it will lose the strength, and become appalled in extremity of cold. Holland.

Unremitting; assiduous. [Obs.] "Assiduate labor." Fabyan.

Constant in application or attention; devoted; attentive; unremitting. She grows more assiduous in her attendance. Addison.