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The quality or state of being unsincere or impure; insincerity. [Obs.] Boyle.

To deprive of sinews or of strength. [R.] Dryden.

Act of rising; also, a steep place; an ascent. "The steep uprising of the hill." Shak.

Of or pertaining to a bear; resembling a bear. Ursine baboon. (Zoöl.) See Chacma. -- Ursine dasyure (Zoöl.), the Tasmanian devil. -- Ursine howler (Zoöl.), the araguato. See Illust. under Howler. -- Ursine seal. (Zoöl.) See Sea bear, and the Note under 1st Seal.

The act of placing goods in a warehouse, or in a customhouse store. Warehousing system, an arrangement for lodging imported articles in the customhouse stores, without payment of duties until they are taken out for home consumption. If reëxported, they are not charged with a duty. See Bonded warehouse, under Bonded, a.…

The treatment of wounds or ulcers by the application of water; also, a dressing saturated with water only, for application to a wound or an ulcer.

A venomous North American snake (Ancistrodon piscivorus) allied to the rattlesnake but destitute of a rattle. It lives in or about pools and ponds, and feeds largely of fishes. Called also water snake, water adder, water viper.

Quality or state of being weasy; full feeding; sensual indulgence. [Obs.] Joye.

Winsome. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The American widgeon. [Local, U. S.]

Self-abandoned, or given up to vice; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked ; as, an abandoned villain.

The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low; the state of being abased or humbled; humiliation.

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

surrender or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy.

Causing, or implying, abdication. [R.] Bailey.

sional aberrations of intellect." Lingard. Whims, which at first are the aberrations of a single brain, pass with heat into epidemic form. I. Taylor.

A volatile oil distilled from the resin or balsam of the nut pine (Pinus sabiniana) of California.

A resinous obtained from Strasburg turpentine or Canada balsam. It is without taste or smell, is insoluble in water, but soluble in alcohol (especially at the boiling point), in strong acetic acid, and in ether. Watts.

3d sing. pres. of Abide. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ing a corresponding modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation; as, get, gat, got; sing, song; hang, hung. Earle.