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State of being gravelly.

Abounding with gravel; consisting of gravel; as, a gravelly soil.

In an even or level manner.

A person newly rich.

Causing revulsion; revulsive. -- n. (Med.)

A hydrous phosphate of alumina, occurring usually in hemispherical radiated forms varying in color from white to yellow, green, or black.

Made from the skin of a still-born animal; as, abortive vellum. [Obs.]

Before death; -- generally used adjectivelly; as, an ante- mortem statement; ante-mortem examination.

To pull away. [Obs.] Yet are not these parts avelled. Sir T. Browne.

who blinks with, or as with, weak eyes. Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns. Marvell.

A species of grass (Poa compressa) with bluish green stems, valuable in thin gravelly soils; wire grass. Kentucky blue grass, a species of grass (Poa pratensis) which has running rootstocks and spreads rapidly. It is valuable as a pasture grass, as it endures both winter and drought better than other kinds, and is very…

A sweet wine. See Calcavella.

The quality of being categorical, positive, or absolute. A. Marvell.

Travelling from house to house or from town to town; itinerant. [Obs.] "Circulatorious jugglers." Barrow.

ng of wings. Then like a bird it sits and sings, And whets and claps its silver wings. Marvell.

A more or less viscid, vellowish liquid, the bitter oleoresin of several species of Copaifera, a genus of trees growing in South America and the West Indies. It is stimulant and diuretic, and is much used in affections of the mucous membranes; -- called also balsam of copaiba. [Written also capivi.]…

Hard or crusty; dry baked; as, a crump loaf. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Hallivell.

To turn away from the west; to throw out of reckoning as to longitude. [Obs.] Marvell.

The act of unsettling, or the state of being unsettled. Marvell.

A slaverer; a slabberer; an idiot; a fool. [Written also driveller.]