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

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

fro in; throughout. Lampoons . . . were handed about the coffeehouses. Macaulay. Roving still about the world. Milton.

repudiation. [Obs.] An abrenunciation of that truth which he so long had professed, and still believed. Fuller.

To tear off or asunder. [Obs.] "Till death abrupts them." Sir T. Browne.

lements of reference by which a point, as of a curve, is referred to a system of fixed rectilineal coördinate axes.

sulting from the mental faculty of abstraction; general as opposed to particular; as, "reptile" is an abstract or general name. Locke. A concrete name is a name which stands for a thing; an abstract name which stands for an attribute of a thing. A practice has grown up in more modern times, which, if not introduced by…

A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation. Nicholson.

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

Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end. [Archaic] Tillotson.

A volatile liquid consisting of three parts of carbon, six of hydrogen, and one of oxygen; pyroacetic spirit, -- obtained by the distillation of certain acetates, or by the destructive distillation of citric acid, starch, sugar, or gum, with quicklime.

A crystalline ketone, CH3COC6H5, which may be obtained by the dry distillation of a mixture of the calcium salts of acetic and benzoic acids. It is used as a hypnotic under the name of hypnone.

th of or on), to acknowledge; to confess. [Obs.] We say of a stubborn body that standeth still in the denying of his fault, This man will not acknowledge his fault, or, He will not be acknown of his fault. Sir T. More.

Anciently, a snake, called dart snake; now, one of a genus of reptiles closely allied to the lizards.

pon conviction; as, to acquiesce in an opinion; to assent to; usually, to concur, not heartily but so far as to forbear opposition.

A limpid, colorless, highly volatile liquid, obtained by the dehydration of glycerin, or the destructive distillation of neutral fats containing glycerin. Its vapors are intensely irritating. Watts.

rking; in force; -- opposed to quiescent, dormant, or extinct; as, active laws; active hostilities; an active volcano.

The projection formed by the thyroid cartilage in the neck. It is particularly prominent in males, and is so called from a notion that it was caused by the forbidden fruit (an apple) sticking in the throat of our first parent. -- Adam's flannel (Bot.), the mullein (Verbascum thapsus). -- Adam's needle (Bot.), the pop…

waketh of his sleep He may not suddenly well taken keep Upon a thing, ne seen it parfitly Till that he be adawed verily. Chaucer.

their lives to a further time. Barrow. 'Tis a needful fitness That we adjourn this court till further day. Shak.