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Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them. Crabb.

A suffix composed of -able and the adverbial suffix -ly; as, favorably.

The act of cutting away the knots of trees. [R.] Crabb.

thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable.

Obtained from plants by distillation. [Obs.] Crabb.

A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable, and, specifically, hell, or the bottomless pit. Ye powers and spirits of this nethermost abyss. Milton. The throne is darkness, in the abyss of light. Dryden.

The inspissated juice of several species of acacia; -- called also gum acacia, and gum arabic.

Gum arabic.

The quality of being acceptable, or suitable to be favorably received; acceptability.

; a receiving what is offered, with approbation, satisfaction, or acquiescence; esp., favorable reception; approval; as, the acceptance of a gift, office, doctrine, etc. They shall come up with acceptance on mine altar. Isa. lx. 7.

Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable. [Obs.] This is saying worthy of all acceptation. 1 Tim. i. 15. Some things . . . are notwithstanding of so great dignity and acceptation with God. Hooker.

Liable to be called on to render an account; answerable; as, every man is accountable to God for his conduct.

Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; hence, bad enough to be under the curse; execrable; detestable; exceedingly hateful; -- as, an accursed deed. Shak. -- Ac*curs"ed*ly, adv. -- Ac*curs"ed*ness, n.

Dextrin not colorable by iodine. See Dextrin.

r nature, phenomena, and laws. Acoustics, then, or the science of sound, is a very considerable branch of physics. Sir J. Herschel.

Any field of arable or pasture land. [Obs.]

her, whether as restlessness, ennui, dissatisfaction, or the imagination of something desirable. J. Grote.

A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substance of extreme hardness; but in modern minerology it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness. Opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his amp…

Capable of being adduced. Proofs innumerable, and in every imaginable manner diversified, are adducible. I. Taylor.

thou be the Christ. Matt. xxvi. 63. The commissioners adjured them not to let pass so favorable an opportunity of securing their liberties. Marshall.