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The oxide of tungsten, a yellow mineral occurring in a pulverulent form. It is often associated with wolfram.

The quality or state of being unchaste; lewdness; incontinence.

Not constitutional; not according to, or consistent with, the terms of a constitution of government; contrary to the constitution; as, an unconstitutional law, or act of an officer. Burke. -- Un*con`sti*tu"tion*al"i*ty, n. -- Un*con`sti*tu"tion*al-ly, adv.

To open by picking out stitches; to take out, or undo, the stitches of; as, to unstitch a seam. Collier.

Not subjected tithes.

Not titled; having no title, or appellation of dignity or distinction. Spenser.

Vastness; immense extent. [R.]

Vastness. [Obs.] The huge vastity of the world. Holland.

The act of carrying, or state of being carried. [Obs.]

In vestiture. [R.]

Anything hastily put or stitched together; hence, a hasty composition. [R.] Dryden.

A small South American monkey; a marmoset. [Written also wistiti, and ouistiti.]

A hydrous carbonate of nickel occurring as an emerald-green incrustation on chromite; -- called also emerald nickel.

To transfer the title of from one to another; to alienate.

Father; religious superior; -- in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch.

The French word answering to the English abbot, the head of an abbey; but commonly a title of respect given in France to every one vested with the ecclesiastical habit or dress.

f a class of bishops whose sees were formerly abbeys. Encyc. Brit. Abbot of the people. a title formerly given to one of the chief magistrates in Genoa. -- Abbot of Misrule (or Lord of Misrule), in mediæval times, the master of revels, as at Christmas; in Scotland called the Abbot of Unreason. Encyc. Brit.…

two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form.

To take away surreptitiously by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually by violence; to kidnap.

State of being aberrant; a wandering from the right way; deviation from truth, rectitude, etc. Aberrancy of curvature (Geom.), the deviation of a curve from a circular form.