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Not condensible; incapable of being liquefied; -- said of gases.

Not condensing; discharging the steam from the cylinder at a pressure nearly equal to or above that of the atmosphere and not into a condenser.

The state or condition of being nonresident, Swift.

siding in a particular place, on one's own estate, or in one's proper place; as, a nonresident clergyman or proprietor of lands.

A substance which sheathes a part, or blunts irritation, usually some bland, oily, or mucilaginous matter; -- nearly the same as demulcent. Forsyth.

pposed to Asia; now, also, the Western hemisphere. Chaucer. I may wander from east to occident. Shak.

Of, pertaining to, or situated in, the occident, or west; western; -- opposed to oriental; as, occidental climates, or customs; an occidental planet.

Western Christians of the Latin rite. See Orientals. Shipley.

Serving to close; shutting up. -- n.

Having eight teeth.

A colorless liquid hydrocarbon, having a garlic odor; heptine.

Old; ancient; as, the olden time. "A minstrel of the olden stamp." J. C. Shairp.

A hard substance, somewhat like bone, which is sometimes deposited within the pulp cavity of teeth.

To load with too great weight or too much care, etc. Sir P. Sidney.

Too burdensome.

Excessive confidence; too great reliance or trust.

Confident to excess. -- O"ver*con"fi*dent*ly, adv.

To harden too much; to make too hard. Boyle.

Too provident.

Slope; inclination. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.