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Government by three persons; a triumvirate; also, a country under three rulers. Holland.

The commander of a trireme.

The office duty of a trierarch.

Dried up; withered by heat. [Obs.] "My tongue . . . unparched." Crashaw.

Not searchable; inscrutable; hidden; mysterious. The counsels of God are to us unsearchable. Rogers. -- Un*search"a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*search"a*bly, adv.

To free from starch; to make limp or pliable.

Government by Whigs. [Cont] Swift.

An office Dr. W. Smith.

pecif. in designating the position of an army with the wings separated by some line of demarcation, as a river or road.

The uppermost member or division of the capital of a column, immediately under the architrave. See Column.

Ivory black or animal charcoal. Weale.

To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye. [Archaic] Bacon. Saying so, he abased his lance. Shelton.

ptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch.

or dignity. Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy. Burke.

Cast down; low-lying. [Obs.] From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton.

The process of grafting now called inarching, or grafting by approach.

To put an end to, or destroy, as a physical objects; to wipe out. [Archaic] And with thy blood abolish so reproachful blot. Spenser. His quick instinctive hand Caught at the hilt, as to abolish him. Tennyson.

Pertaining to Abraham, the patriarch; as, the Abrachamic covenant.

Relating to the patriarch Abraham.

ation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch.