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Any atom, group, or radical substituted for another, or entering a molecule in place of some other part which is removed.

Textual. [Obs.] Chaucer.

or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor. [Obs.] Shak. Built too strong For force or virtue ever to expugn. Chapman.

Destitute of virtue; without efficacy or operating qualities; powerless. Virtueless she wished all herbs and charms. Fairfax.

The day following Whitmonday; -- called also Whitsun Tuesday.

Delivery, in speech. [Obs.] B. Jonson. Absolution day (R. C. Ch.), Tuesday before Easter.

Promotive of abstemiousness. [R.] Such is the virtue of the abstemious well. Dryden.

igure, the act is called abstraction. So, also, when it considers whiteness, softness, virtue, existence, as separate from any particular objects.

n is more generally used.] I, from the influence of thy looks, receive Access in every virtue. Milton.

hurchill. "Accomplishments befitting a station." Thackeray. Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, And wisdom falls before exterior grace. Cowper.

as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits. No virtue is acquired in an instant, but step by step. Barrow. Descent is the title whereby a man, on the death of his ancestor, acquires his estate, by right of representation, as his heir at law. Blackstone.

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

One of the small pedestals, for statues or other ornaments, placed on the apex and at the basal angles of a pediment. Acroteria are also sometimes placed upon the gables in Gothic architecture. J. H. Parker.

wonderful or high excellence; as, admiration of a beautiful woman, of a landscape, of virtue.

nt. Sir T. More. True religion . . . proposes for its end the joint advancement of the virtue and happiness of the people. Horsley.

The state of being afflicted; a state of pain, distress, or grief. Some virtues are seen only in affliction. Addison.

crystallization, and in composition a silicate of alumina and soda. It is a common constituent of granite and of various igneous rocks. See Feldspar.

A thick, viscous nitrogenous substance, which is the chief and characteristic constituent of white of eggs and of the serum of blood, and is found in other animal substances, both fluid and solid, also in many plants. It is soluble in water is coagulated by heat ad by certain chemical reagents. Acid albumin, a modifica…

did love each other dearly well, And with so firm affection were allied. Spenser. The virtue nearest to our vice allied. Pope.

Height of degree; highest point or degree. He is [proud] even to the altitude of his virtue. Shak.