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Of or pertaining to the shade or darkness; shadowy; unreal; secluded; retired. [R.] B. Jonson.

Not practical; impractical. "Unpractical questions." H. James. I like him none the less for being unpractical. Lowell.

Resembling nettles; -- said of several natural orders allied to urticaceous plants.

Of or pertaining to a prophet; prophetical. Bp. Hall.

Of or pertaining to hunting; used in hunting. [R.] " Venatical pleasure." Howell.

; directly overhead, or in the zenith; perpendicularly above one. Charity . . . is the vertical top of all religion. Jer. Taylor.

The quality or state of being vertical; verticalness. [R.] The different points of the verticality. Sir T. Browne.

In a vertical manner, position, or direction; perpendicularly; as, to look down vertically; to raise a thing vertically.

Quality or state of being vertical.

aining to a vortex or vortexes; resembling a vortex in form or motion; whirling; as, a vortical motion. -- Vor"ti*cal*ly, adv.

Like, or suitable to, a zealot; ardently zealous. [R.] Strype.

Of or pertaining to zoöphytes.

jective, commonly called the indefinite article, and signifying one or any, but less emphatically.

The fifth month of the Jewish year according to the ecclesiastical reckoning, the eleventh by the civil computation, coinciding nearly with August. W. Smith.

A calculating table or frame; an instrument for performing arithmetical calculations by balls sliding on wires, or counters in grooves, the lowest line representing units, the second line, tens, etc. It is still employed in China.

ey; but commonly a title of respect given in France to every one vested with the ecclesiastical habit or dress.

The first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, corresponding nearly to our April. After the Babylonish captivity this month was called Nisan. Kitto.

number, and case, both words forming a clause by themselves and being unconnected, grammatically, with the rest of the sentence; as, Tarquinio regnante, Pythagoras venit, i. e., Tarquinius reigning, Pythagoras came.

A mystical word or collocation of letters written as in the figure. Worn on an amulet it was supposed to ward off fever. At present the word is used chiefly in jest to denote something without meaning; jargon.

A mystical word used as a charm and engraved on gems among the ancients; also, a gem stone thus engraved.