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Manner in which an object is placed; location, esp. as related to something else; position; locality site; as, a house in a pleasant situation.

The method in which the parts of a plant are arranged; also, the position of the parts. Henslow.

A tub in which one bathes in a sitting posture; also, a bath so taken; a hip bath.

Abstruseness; that which is abstruse. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

The quality of being acetous; sourness.

Acquired. [Obs.] Burton.

The act or process of acquiring. The acquisition or loss of a province. Macaulay.

Acquired. [Obs.] He died not in his acquisitive, but in his native soil. Wotton.

In the way of acquisition.

The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession.

One who acquires.

Abundant activity. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

The state of being fat; fatness.

Opposition; contrariety. [Obs.] Wyclif. Adversity is not without comforts and hopes. Bacon.

The quality of being amorous; lovingness. [R.] Galt.

A silicate of aluminium, occurring usually in thick rhombic prisms, nearly square, of a grayish or pale reddish tint. It was first discovered in Andalusia, Spain.

An eruptive rock allied to trachyte, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar, with pyroxene, hornblende, or hypersthene.

A state of being anfractuous, or full of windings and turnings; sinuosity. The anfractuosities of his intellect and temper. Macaulay.

A native sulphate of lead. It occurs in white or yellowish transparent, prismatic crystals.

A state of being angulous or angular. [Obs.]